The Dardanelles

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIV, Issue 15, 21 December 1915, Page 5

The Dardanelles

SUVLA AND ANZAC EVACUATED. Hi! J ' ■ ' r t V “ ■ f "•1 ■‘INSIGNIFICANT CASUALTIES!” ' [Unitbp Press Association.] .I:'- 'i/l i ' j . (Received 8,15 a.m.). London, December 20. The War Office announces that all the troops at Suvla and Anzac, with their guns and stores, have been transferred, the operation being conducted ' with insignificant casualties. STATEMENT IN THE COMMONS.

■ (Received ,10.15 a.m.) - > London; December 20. t n In the House of Commons, iMr Asquith said the troops were successfully transferred in pursuance 'of/ the decision of the CSbinet made somb time' ago. The operations reflected the utmost credit on the Admiral and staff and all ranks. Mr Tennant said that General Sir lan Hamilton’s report on Suvla Bay had been received, and the Government was considering it. There would be no avoidable delay in publication J, , i PRESS COMMENT. “A SENSATION OF THE WAR.” THE IMMORTAL ANZACS. (Received 11.35 a.m.) London, December 20. The Evening News states that the evacuation of Anzac is one of the sensations of, the war. While it does not i indicate a complete withdrawal, it I proves- that the offensive costing’ 200,- | 000 casualties has ended. It is a reiief to know that the calculations of experts regarding the losses during {the retirement were not fulfilled. The Anzacs now immortal fame, fighting like demons against the best defensive troops in the world, and when their ammunition was exhausted they followed up the enemy with stones and fists. During the Suvla landing, the Anzacs in another glorious attack, gained the crest of Sari Bahr, and it wag not their fault that the rest of the'attack was a painful setback. What happened since Suvla is unknown to the public.

60 NEAR AND YET SO FAR. United Prims Association. . London, December 19. In the House of Commons Sir A, B. Markham asked whether Lord Robert Cecil possessed unlisclosed information when he stated that we were within little of a great victory in the Dardanelles. Lord Robert Crtul said that ids observation was literally true, but unfortunately, to his profound regret, events had .not justified it. Mr Tennant said that in the six months to November 30, twenty-five army aviators had been killed, forty-three wounded, ten were missing, and fortyfour were prisoners or interned.