The Dardanelles

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIII, Issue 49, 27 October 1915, Page 6

The Dardanelles

TURKISH ATTACKS REPULSED. United Phess Association. London, October 24. Mitylene reports state that the Alliesiat; Suvla and Krithia repulsed with heavy losses the Turkish’ c Attacks. Fighting con-tin nos. Two destroyers entered the Straits and bomfmrde.d tiie enemy positions. ANOTHER BARTLETT ARTICLE. London, October 2d. There is much discussion on the prospects at Gallipoli. The consensus ot' expert opinion is that the Government is as determined a* ever to push on to Constantinople. .Mr Ashmead Bartlett, in an article in the Daily Telegraph on the Dardanelles expedition, says-: “It is an excellent example of the Britishers’ peculiar habit of conceiving great schemes and rushing, them at a moment's no-j tice, ijithuut counting the cost. The officers and men, with wonderful abil-j ity, adapt themselves to the circnm-j stances, and this takes the place of the years ot study devoted by foreign General Staffs. Our method allows ns to gradually pile up weight. When we lost three battleships in the Dardanelles the Near Fast believed that the expedition was doomed to failure. When am army adequate in numbers appeared, that opinion was unchanged. Now the view of the Near Fast is changing to admiration, as it realises that we are determined to see the show through. The Heft has the enormous responsibility of guarding the Hanks of the army. Alter the Goliath was torpedoed . the army’s right wing was left to take care ol itself. At night-time all the warships were withdrawn from the danger points in the Straits. German submarines had a wonderful chance of sinking British warships. One must admire the enterprise of their commanders, lint I think the British submarines, with similar opportunities, would have done better. The Admiral continually translerred his Hag to smaller and less valuable vessels. All the; ships remaining carry out their duties with the same precision and coolness as the earlier vessels, though they are twelve to twenty years older, and would have been on the scrapheap hut for the war.”