The Dardarelles

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIII, Issue 58, 6 November 1915, Page 5

The Dardarelles

MENTIONED IN DESPATCHES. , (Received 8.40 a.in.) London, November 5. The following New Zealanders were mentioned in Sir lan Hamilton s despatches : Artillery: Brigadier-General Johnson, Major Standish, Lieutenant-Col-onel Sykes, Captain Farr, Sergeant W, Hill, Bombardiers D. Foies and J. B. Thompson. Engineers : Lieutenant - Colonel Pridham, Major Ferguson, Captains Edwards, Sberra, Lieutenants Oakley, Hnlbert, Butler, Sergeants Neels, Alexander, Wicken. Mounted Billies; Canterbury—Lieu-tenant-Colonel Finlay, Major Overtoil, Lieutenant Blackett, Trooper Jenkins. Wellington—Major White. Otago—Lieutenant-Colonel Banchop. Infantry; Auckland—LieutenantColonel Plugge, Major Dawson. Privates Noakes, Martoni, ‘ Bugler Treacher. Canterbury—(Temporary) Lieutenant-Colonel Brown, Lieutenants Gibbs, Le Mote. Sergeant Gill. Wellington—Lieut.-Colonels Charters and Young, Lieutenant Grace, Company Sergeant-Major x\. Johnston, Corporal Duncan, Privates S. Johnston, Neale, J. Read, J. Crone. Otago—Lieutenant-Colonel Moore, Lieutenant Hamilton. New Zealand-Australian Divisional Train: Lieutenant-Colonel Hamilton, Captains Creeve, Ackland, Staff-Ser-geant Borkett, Private Snellgrove. New Zealand Medical Corps: Lieu-tenant-Colonel Berg, Captain Finn. Ordnance: Captain Beck. FIGHTING oh THURSDAY. FOUR TURKISH ATTACKS REPULSED. (Received 11.45 a.m.) London, November 5. Renter states that it is officially reported that the Allies repulsed four Turkish attacks yesterday on positions at the Dardanelles.

IMPRESSING ROUMANIA. United Press Association. London, November 3; The Daily Mail’s Berne correspondent telegraphs that Roumanian attaches are much impressed by the German wireless message of the unimportance of happenings at the Dardanelles, and the statement that the enemy is persisting in using hospital ships as transports and hospital tents for military purposes. This is a lie. The British, New Zealanders and Australians are scrupulous in the use of the red flag. ' They have not raised it if a hospital is close to an army corps headquarters, lest the Turks should think it is sheltering headquarters. “NOT THE FIRST TIME. 55 GENERAL HAMILTON’S RECALL.

In the course of an address at a. recruiting meeting in Sydney lastweek Captain Kane, A.M.C., who returned from Gallipoli with the first batch of Australian wounded, referred to he recall of General Sir .lan Hamilton from the Dardanelles. “Tliis is not the first time that General Hamilton has been home to England since he has been at the Dardanelles,” he said. “He went to London once before, and I believe that after he has made his report to the War Office upon the situation upon this occasion he will he hack again at his old post.” Captain Kane added that General Hamilton, after he had inspected the Australian troops at Mena Camp prior to t>lie landing afc Gaba Tope, remarked that the Australians were as fine a body of men as he had ever seen, and that he had to take them to Constantinople, hut that God only knew how he was going to gel there.