The Dardanelles.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVII, Issue 87, 12 August 1915, Page 5

The Dardanelles.

killed in action. LT.-COI.ONEL SELWYN CHAMBERS. Pjbk r«KS3 AsaOOI.VT UN. Hastings, August 12. Word has been received that acting-Lieut-Colonel Selwyn Chambers, of the Hawke’s Bay Squadron, Wellington Mounted Rifles, was .killed in action. He was the eldest son of Mr Mason Chambers, of Havelock North. , PRAISE FOR COLONIALS. trebled area held. (Received 12.35 p.m.) London, August 11. General Sir lan Hamilton reports that the gallantry and dash of the Australians and New Zealanders tiebled the area held. NEW ZEALAND CASUALTIES killed in action. Canterbury. Battalion.

Captain J, Houlker. Lieutenant H. M. Wright. Wellington Battalion. Lieutenant-Colonel W, G. Malone. Otago Mounted. Captain B. S. Hay. i.Lieutenant P. McKay, i Wellington Mounted. ■Major S. Chambers. Royal Army Medical Corps. Colonel Handers. (Director of Medical Services, ■ New Zealand and Australian Division).

Otago Battalion. Lieutenant H. Nisbet. Auckland Mounted. Lieutenant H. F. E. Mackosy.

WOUNDED

Canterbury Battalion

Major C. W. E. Oribb. Captain AJC. B. Critchley-Salmon-sen. Captain Y. G, Jervis. . , Lfepteuarit Da. S. ’L'/GHft.*" ‘ " 11 ' 1 ! Lieuteijaiit IL-A. B- Lawry (second time). |.n ■ hV.»v . .'■>! ' i■. >. - Lrehtbiiant )A. F. L. Priest .(second, tirpie).. [ * ‘ .I •; 'I i Dieutypant N. R. Wilson;.;,,, ~ ■ Lieutenant A. W. Duncan. . i Lieutenanf.<F.> .SLoStfirijes,, j ; , ~, ( Field Engineers A i •. L) If A i Lieutenant A. ■NjjOMWh.’tK •; ‘ ‘.J’ ■ " otag«j?iftW»lip9P 1. 31 I;■: * jmitenjnit F. L. Hunt., ~ ~|] N.Z. Infantry. ! ’ Bieu ten a nftO> ' Caaaleln tniiimm ’ , 1 Otago Mounted.

Lieutenant-Colonel A. B. Banchop (second time). Captain C. J. S. W. Paddon. \ Wellington Battalion, e ■ JLieufepanj a W i ,8., S,, Furby (se«op<l_ /i.c nnv TCh >.-■< .anoi ton: iM ANOTHER NEW LjOSS., O..GA PTAI li, ,Hpf. 15 ER KI LLjED. 3t . _ : ,i , 1 j, J . ’',,, 1 n ' «• -.7,//. i 'Nelson' .August'l2j_ .j' Ne.AVs. has; been received, thpt Captain James ,Moniker, officer commanding the 13th .Canterbury Regiment of the NeAv Zealand Forces, has been killed in; action. • ■;« yjj- { » TURKS IiRINC OF CAMPAIGN. REPORTS FROM BULGARIA. [United Pbesa 'Association.] v (Received 9.40 a.m. Sofia, August 11, Since Yussif’s return from the Dardanellesi the Turks have become increasingly depressed. Outside the Committee of Union and Progress and their immediate friends, there are many signs that Turkey is tiring of tile campaign. There is increasing enmity toivards the Germans, and there is a possibility that the resistance on Gallipoli Peninsula Avill soon end. ’

"ALL WELL!”

Hastings, August 12

Cables received from BrigadierGeneral Russel] and Lieutenant Beamish state that both are well.

LATEST CASUALTY LIST.

Sydney, August IT. The sixty-third list is ns follows: Killed in Action: Thirteen, Died of Wounds : One officer and 21 men, including H. Williamson, a New Zealander. Died of Illness: Eight. Wounded Four officers and 141 men, including C. Marie and Taryan (in hospital at Malta), E. A. Coomhe and M. Scott, New Zealanders. 11l : Fourteen officers and 590 men, including .Sergeant C. A. Teschner, Corporal N. C. Bannin, Lance-Corporal J. Fryday, Privates B. Leroy, C. Chamberlain, and T. J. Jordan, New Zealanders (all in hospital at Malta), D, L. Mathesoii, previously reported wounded a, second time, is also in hospital at Malta. AUSTRALIA DAY FUNDS. Sydney, August 11. The New South Wales Australia Day Fund has passed half a million. THE NEW LANDING PARTY. London, August 11. Kara Cliali, where'the new landing has been effected, is on the north shore of the Gulf of Sams, live miles westward of Khojachesem, o« the main route for Turkish supplies going to Gallipoli since the British sub- [ marinas stopped the traffic by way of the Sea of Marmora. Sir fan {Hamilton now threatens to cut the [Tutkl inly laudihg hifjhwajri