The Dardanelles

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIII, Issue 45, 22 October 1915, Page 5

The Dardanelles

CARE OF CONVALESCENTS. United Prebb Association. (Received 8.35 a.m.) Malta, October 21. A commission has gone to Sicily to consider the establishment of hospitals for convalescents and slightly woundeds from the Dardanelles. GENERAL BIRDWOOD'S REPORT. United Press Association. London, October 20. The Press Bureau "announces that Major-General Birdwood reports that there is little to say about the operations above ground last week. There is considerable mining activity on both vsides. The Turks fired a mine at Hill GO, which, unfortunately for them, exploded beneath their own lines, causing much damage to a Turkish trench, but none to ours. Elsewhere they exploded our trenches, from which the garrisons had been already withdrawn, but five miners, who were buried and given up for lost, re-appeared three days later. They had dug themselves out, and were little the worse for the ordeal.

London, October 20. In the House of Commons, Lieuten-ant-Commander Wedgwood asked who commanded the troops at the landing at Suvla* Bay, and whether he was still in command. Mr Tennant replied that the officer was no longer in any command, and he thought it was not in the public interest to say more. London. October 21. Mr Tennant, in the House of Commons, said that the chief sickness at the Dardanelles is dysentery, but there had been a remarkable decline since the beginning of the month. The War Office is supplementing the local timber supply for winter huts from England, and is also sending huts in sections. j The Daily Mail, in a leader, referring to the recent Ministerial utterances, says: "We say plainly, and take the responsibility .for so doing, that r it is not true that, 'as every German and Turk knows, we are on the eve of a great victory in the Dardanelles,.' " • {■,, ■•■.••- ' I" n . Berlin,; October;2o. The jNoide'utche,,' ,Allegemeine, ' Zeifcung says that the Anglo-French action in the Dardanelles, as all ' the world knows,, has been a pi table failure. The Turkish bravery leaves no alternative between-an inglorious departure or complete destruction. The newspaper adds that an artistic end may be arranged. London, October 21.

British prisoners at Constantinople have informed the Associated Press Agency's representative that the position at Callipoli is a trying one. Water is scarce at Anafarta, where only one well i s -in;the hands of the British. This, has .been replenished with supplies brought from Imbros Island and Salonika. From this well the British forces are supplied in half-pints daily. The allowance of food is six biscuits, preserved candy; and jam, and poor health is the result. There are several cases, of dysentery, and the heat and dust are severe handicaps to the: Allies. . It!«ould not -nbe,-said that the troops who recently landed on the Peninsula are of the first-class, as they are too young.