The Stratford Evening Post WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE EGMONT SETTLER FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1915. THE FORCES AT GALLIPOLI.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIII, Issue 16, 17 September 1915, Page 4

The Stratford Evening Post WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE EGMONT SETTLER FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1915. THE FORCES AT GALLIPOLI.

I '"•' , •• I V>isnissjpg> Recent, goings in, .thfi j;?)a<rjdaneilep, the special,-mijjtan v W&W,' 'of a southern journal points ont t)ia,t,, the total trout northwards from frctWßi has 'been''^ated" to 'ls twelVd •nti'les. show it' It extends all the way 'from' ( (/aba Tebeh to.the inouth of, the Kurtunms.l a iront (if twelvfl J>j'iles ; could only he obtained by allowing for tlie curves/a very necessary provision,,, of course, when men have to lje found to hold, the trenches. How far the land occupied hy the British on this section ex-j tends.i inland can only he guessed, he says, but even at Suvla hay. where a considerable advance was made, the trenches cannot he much more than three miles from the beach at any point, and towards the south the first line trenches are probably within a' mile and a half of the sea. There is a German estimate to the effect that a hundred thousand British troops took part in the recent operations between Gaba Tebeh and Cape Suvlfij and in all probability this is not very wide of the mark—at any rate, if the earlier assertion of a correspondent is correct that the force landed at f>UV-, la Bay was the biggest yet put ashore. There ought to lie well on towards a hundred thousand troops north of Gaba Tebeh hy this time, lor they will be needed, .seeing that the Turks i put no fewer than ,().()()() men in mo- 1 tion to oppose the advance from the Suvla Bav beach.