Australia

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIII, Issue 38, 14 October 1915, Page 5

Australia

A SUCCESSFUL FEINT. DRAWING THE TURKS FROM SUV LA. United Press Association. (Received 8.15 a.m.) Sydney, October 14. Captain Bean, Commonwealth correspondent at Gallipoli j as follows The latest newspapers show that the Turks claim to have repulsed the landing of our colonial troops at Karachli on August (3. This refers to the landing of 380 men of the French Foreign Legion on the same night as the Suvla landing in order to give the Turks the idea, that it was a serious landing, and to attract enemy troops in that direction. Ihe force met with slight opposition and rushed five kilometres inland, but when the Turks began to pour down a formidable body of troops they reembarked successfully, with a of about sixty. . : 3 i —tl. t •• '• NEW ZEALANDER KILLED IN ACTION. (Received 9.5 a.m.) Sydhkiy, S Octrih&r J4'. Private J. A. McDonald who was killed in, action, was a NW- wea*lander. | i ■ ; . | | “AUSTRALIA DAY.”

Sydney, October 14. The New South Wales “Australia DJiy”” Fund amounts to £750,000. ENji-'MY FIRM TRADING IN THE ISLANDS.' ' ' ’ Sydney, Oetober 13., •‘lnterring to a iirm ot Germanplant,grs| who are alleged to be doing business 1 in Tdnga and Samoa, Mr Hughes said that he bad not received official intimation of its existence. In any case, was unable to deal with a firm operating between Tonga and New Zealand, and until they try to do business in Australia it wa s entirely a matter for the New Zealand Government.