LATE WAR NEWS.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 220, 4 June 1915, Page 7

LATE WAR NEWS.

INCITEMENT TO BUTCHERY. NA FOr.KON ’8 SOLDI BE’B 0® A VEs desecrated. PARIB. May 1. Official. Tlu* German Consul at Haifa, Syria, ■ incited Turkish soldiers •to fire upon bouts carry hip; parleracm- ■ taires; he also had the graves of N'apol- ( eon’s soldiers desecrated. ’ A Freneli cruiser bombarded and des- | travel the Dorman consulate. No other j building; was Lit, i TURKS CURSE GERMANY, i PR 1 SO X EE S • 3 T A T E M EX T 3. | A Lid ES’ LOSSES IX LANDING. : TURKS TURN CAME AFTERWARDS WH OLE REGIMENTS A.NXjPH'tLATED. LONDON, June 1. The Press Bureau states that prisoni ors arrived in Egypt declare the losses I at Gallipoli were terribly heavy, the i 20th regiment being almost aunihiiatj. ed with all officers. Generally, very I heavy gaps wore ill led up by naval f officers and military cadets. ! The attacks on Krillua were most j costly for the Turks. I Liman Pasha ordered an attack at j night with empty magazines, using- th e S bayonet only. The Allies’ flares and j searchlight's repeatedly caught us in close formation with machine gnus and rifle fire at point blank range, and punished them terribly. A captured officer said that .only 120 could be collected out of a regii ment of a thousand strong. ( The Allies’ mountain guns more than j once caught the Turks assembling for ! attack, and kept them some minutes I under shrapnel, inflicting heavy losses. 1 An Arab officer said the landing was costly and difficult. When the Allies established themselves on the Penin-sula,-it was our turn to suffer the heavier losses or be captured a fortnight ago. The Turkish losses then were at least. 40,000 killed and wounded. Other prisoners stated that two Turkish battalions, attached to each other at Gaba Tepe, losing heavily,' ultimately stampeded.. The British machine gun-fire was particularly well directed and naval guns were most effective, the heaviest shells bursting in the trenches paralysed all the men near by. Some prisoners admit that It is unknown in the least why Enver Pasha and Tallat Bey went to war. Others curse Germany heartily SWEDES PLAY FALSE. RIFLES TOR GERMANY. COPENH AGEN Juno 2. The .Swedish steamer Pun, with a cargo of riile's, ostensibly for Bulgaria, was seized by a German torpedo boat s'oit Falsferhp. The Bulgarian Legation ih Berlin gave the 'Banish Government ’ a .Guarantee that the vessel would sail dir-c-vr for Dedengatch. ;.but the voppM, instead ‘ gehyg north. -suee-ked . to-D

minis the B&ftie, where she mot the Gorman torpedo or.