CALLIPOLI PENINSULA

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 243, 3 July 1915, Page 5

CALLIPOLI PENINSULA

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AQIU BABA W BANOSE, TU WKIBH 00UNTSK-ATTAC KB. REPULSED WTOI LOSS. IMPORTANT CAPTURES MADE, (Reed 12.25 p.m.} LONDON, July L\ Sir lan Hamißcn reports a detenu:ned Turkish counter-attack oil Aclil Daba en the 20th which was repulsed'. The French captured a strong system of entrenchments on the 30th. The enemy's losses were very eonaiderablc. HIGH PRAISE FOR TURKS. LONDON, July 2. The Chronicle's correspondent pays the Australians and New Zealandcrs threaten the communications with Achi Baba and consequently draw upon themselves the flower of the Turkish arm t y. Notwithstanding that the ene-mj-'s easualies are already seventy thousand, the Turks fight gallantly and with desperation, realising that the fall of Aehi Baba means the doom of Constantinople . Describing the French operations at Kerevedere on the 21st, the correspondent says: Seventy-fives drummed incessantly, to the accompaniment of the tremendous reverberations of the hundred and twenty-fives and howitzers. The French captured and recaptured trenches, and were ejected again and again. Then came the order that they must recapture and hold the trenches. British guns and howitzers were asked for and immediately sent. The bombardment was maintained throughout the afternoon. It seemed as if every gun on earth was pouring in shells on the Turkish lines. A third attack was launched. In one trench the enemy was short of ammunition, and fought with sticks, stones and fists. A battalion came hurrying from the Turkish right, but was caught in open ground by the seventy-fives, and raelted away. Six hundred yards of the Turkish trenches were taken and held. One trench was ten feet deep, and the Turkish dead brimmed over. They had been valiant —the dead men.

Officers from the west say that as a fighting unit one Turk is worth two Germans. In fact, with his back to the fall the Turk is magnificent. The French casualties were few, considering what they might have been. , DESTEOYEES DO GOOD WORK. SYDNEY, July 2. Captain Bean reports that since the withdrawal of the main naval force from the Dardanelles operations the destroyers have jumped into tlie i chance of using their guns, and are doing really fine work in supporting the land forces. t ON GALLIPOLI PENINSULA. F" '■ TURKS DISILLUSIONED. (Reed 10.25 a.m.) COPENHAGEN, July 2. A second officer of the Mercantile Marine, recently at Constantinople, states that the Tukrs were at first under the impression tha tth e Allies had failed ,a£ the Dardanelles', but now it was manifest that they were slowly but surely gaining ground His impression was that the Turks could not hold out much longer, and foreigners assisting' in. their defence would have a terrible time if Constantinople capitulates. The Tv&teib population at GalKpofc was on the friendliest terms with the Afttes basaflse they paid in gold, whereas tfee (3ermass paid in papfer. The Allies are on th<? point of beeaming masters of the Sea of Marmora.

T!!i; AUSTRALASIAN' BUAK);, AN lOTRCTIVH DN3kLGNBTHATIQN, LONDON, July 3, S>V t'Hfi IfftmUtkm's report (ulrtuniypublished) nonttnucßi Tho Australian Hid New Zealand army corps was itt»tructed to prevent the enemy on thcli 1 ''rout from detnehtng trodps to the <duthefn area. The action was opened between 11..'10 and noon on the 20th by (ho. Warships Llutnbcr, Pincher, and Chelmer, engagir.g the enemy's heavy guns. At 1 p.m. part of the Second Light Horse Brigade ami {lie Third Infantry Brigade moved out on the right of he position, advancing 700 yards. The ■momy was encountered in strength. Meanwhile the artillery engaged the memy's reserves which were collecting in a ravine opposite the right cen•ro. by effectively shelling them with guns and howitzers. About 2.30 the enemy cleared, preparing for a counter-attack against the left of our advanced troops, but howitzer and machine-gun fire easily repulsed them. The retirement of our advanced troops began at 3 o'clock, well covered by rifle, machine-gun, and artillery fire. All were- back in their trenches between 4.30 and 5.30. Our machine-guns and artillery did considerable execution. The naval fire was also valuable. We made a demonstration after dark with flares, starshells and destroyer bombardment successfully. The Eighth Corps reports that 190 of the enemy have been taken prisoners since the 2Sth June. THE STATE OF TURKEY, (Reed 1.45 a.m.) LONDON, July 2. The Constantinople correspondent of the "Daily Chronicle" states that during the last four weeks two plots have be'en dnscovered|. The secret police have made ICO arrests. The arrested were either summarily sentenced to death or to internment in Asia Minor.

The number of wounded in the city defies enumeration. Not only are small arms and ammunition scarce, but the supply of rifles is failing. The second line troops are armed with a variety of weapons.and they are truly amusing. Home guards at critical points on the railway proud, ly shoulder shot guns. GERMAN AERODROME DES. TROYED. AMSTERDAM, July 2. Th e aerodrome at Chisteledes was destroyed by Allies' aviators. They are constantly bombing Zeebrugge harbour, where there are two submarines. SAYVILLE WIRELESS STATIONUNDER AMERICAN CONTROL. ENEMY COMMUNICATED WITH. EXTRAORDINARY INTIMATION (Reed 9.25 a.m.) WASHINGTON, July 2. Th e Government, is contemplating placing the Sayville wireless station under American control. It is believed i that the movements of British and French trans-Atlantic shipping is notified to the German Admiralty. An attack on the steamer. Welbury disclosed that someone in Cuba, before the vessel salied, painted, inside the holdv an formation that the Welbury would never reach England, DODGED THE PIRATES. LONDON. July 2-. The Marina has arrived .at Leith. She did R«i sight ft single submarine.

THE ITALIAN CAMPAIGN.

IMPORTANT POSITIONS SECURED. ADVANCE OX I3ONXO SLOW. FIGHTING FOR EVERY INCH OF GROUND, (Recti. 10.45 p.m.) ROME, July 2. Ofiicial: The enemy, throwing asphyxialiug bombs, made vigorous night attacks on Montecroce and Palpiceolo Pass. They were repulsed. We occupied Bankirki Srendrini, an important position dominating Onque PlezKo, at the head of the Resia Valley. Our advance on the Isonzo is slow. vv 0 are compelled to wrest the ground inch by inch. Italian airmen effectively bombed a column of troops and supply waggons near Appachiasella, alto the railway, station at San Daniel. AUSTRIAN ATTACKS REPULSED(Reed. 10.45 p.m.) GENEVA, July 2. The Italians' are attacking on the wh.ol 0 front. Fifteen thousand Austrians attacked the Plata-Gradisca front, but were repulsed, leaving twelve hundred dead and wounded. ITALIANS CAPTURE MOUNTAIN FORTRESS. LONDON, July 2, Geneva veperts that the Italians enptmvd she. mountain fortress of Oonlmgim, in Trentlno,, \\\\\\t r awda« eious eireumetaueea. A captain ami a huuilvet) men ©limbed a aleey elope and tlonuimled the swreiuler, declaring that the foiMivuit wan sumnmtkMl, Thto was a bluff, but (ho ftarrlttuii Biimn* deved, OCCUPATION OP SCUTARI, ITALY ENTERS a protest, ROME, July 2, Italy has protected against the occupation of Scutari. The Triple Entente has assured Italy that Scutari and all the Albanian questions will be definitely settled after the w;t.

AUSTRIAN OFFICIAL REPORTVICTORY everywhere; AMSTERDAM, July 2. An Austrian official report states: The Austro-German troops, after stubborn fighting, reached the eastern bank of the Rohatyn, and occupied Zamose. The Italians attacked our front at Segrado and Montecosich, They entered our trenches near Selzauo and Vermighant, but were repulsed, the Italian corpses covering the Montecosich ridges, SINKING OF THE ARMENIAN. WASHINGTON, July 2. Mr. Page (U.S. Ambassador) has cabled stating that the Admiralty lias notified him that the Armenian was engaged on their business. LONDON, July 2. The captain of the Armenian believes that the submarine rescued three of the crew. The mate says that the first shell killed ten men. The wireless operator continued to send S.O.S. until a shell destroyed the apparatus. Four men, after terrible sufferings, died of wounds aboard the boats. MAIZE-LADEN STEAMER SUNK. NORWEGIAN BARQUE TORPEDOED LONDON, July 2. The steamer Lamas, from Buenos Ayres to Belfast with maize, was torpedoed 45 miles west of the Scillies on Wednesday. The second mate was killed by shell/ire, and the remainder of the crew landed at Milford Haven. A Norwegian barque with wheat was torpedoed off the Fastnet. Tart of the crew have landed in Ireland. AUSTRALIAN TRADER SUNK. LONDON, July 2. The Sardonine, from West Australia, was torpedoed and sunk without warning off coast of Cork. Two were killed and several wounded or missing. Seven were saved. GERMANYS SUBMARINES. AN AMERICAN BASE SOUGHT. WASHINGTON, July 2. The authorities have received information that there is a strong probability that Germany is seeking to esablish a strong submarine base on ,the New England coast. MORE SUBMARINING. NORWEGIAN DENUNCIATIONS. LONDON, July 2. The British steamers Caueassian and . Hoglcinoor were submarined off the Liard on Thursday. The Norwegian wheat ship tcrpepoed was the Thistlebank. This has evoked a strong denunciation of German v.

THE RUSSIAN FSONT

RUSSIAN OFFICIAL REPORT. STUBBORN REARGUARD ACTIONS. HEAVY LOSSEri INFLICTED ON r j HE ENEMY. (Reel 'O.io p-ra PETROGRAD, July 2. Official: The enemy's offensive at Vicwprz and tin? Bug continues. The rearguard actions were very stubborn on the 29th on the Toroassow-Zanio&c road. The enemy's persistent, attacks on the 29th and 30th on the KauiionkaHallcz Front were repulsed. We inflicted great losses and took a thoirsa nd prisoners. RUSSIA'S DETERMINATION. RECOGNISED BY THE "COLOGNE GAZETTE." (Times and Sydney Sun Cables) LONDON, July 2. The "Cologne Gazette" opines that the resignation of Maklakoff aad Sukhomlinoff is a serious loss to the war party; nevertheless,lite pacificists haveno chance of securing the upper hand while the Grand Dnko Nicholas is at the helm. The symptoms indicate that the Russian people have resolved to persevere in their efforts to bring the war to a successful termination. A PRIZE FOR BRITISH AIRMEN£SuO FOR THE FIRST ZEPPELIN (Times and Sydney Sun Cables) LONDON, July t Mr Raw, a shipbuilder, of Paisley, buffers ;GSOO ti the firrt nirainn bringing Iflown a Zeppelin on Or\ltk»h 8011. FRENCH OFFICIAL REPORT. 1 OPERATIONS AT VERDUN, VIOLENT CANNONADE NORTH Or? All HAS. (Reed 10 p.m.) PARIS, July 2. Greman activity in the Argonno indicated an atteir.pl to reach the Cha-lons-Verdun railway, near St. Men©:hould, in order to threaten Verdun from the west. The enemy made several unsuccessful attempts to pene trat 0 southwards by the Bicsmc Valley.

Official: There is a very violent cannonade north of Arras. One of our mines on the front at Danpierre wrecked the enemy's'defensive works. Two of the enemy's attacks in the Vosges on Langenfelhkopf-Ilgßus front were completely repulsed, MORS MEN. THE DOMINION'S RESOURCES. WHAT CANADA COULD DO. (Roe,. 9.25 a.m.) LONDON, July 2. Sir Edmund Barton, at the Colonial Institute, said that although it might be a great strain on Australia's resources to send 150,000 men, she could do so if asked. He also believed that Canada could double that number. TRADES UNION CONFERENCE. NO CONNECTION WITH GERMANS. (Roe. 0.25 a.m.) LONDON, July 2. At the Trades Union Conference at Derby, the delegates endorsed Mr. Appleton's refusal to attend an international conference at Amsterdam because Germans were attending. Mr. Applet on pointed out that after the Gorman atrocities Britain's cry was for vengeance. Mr. Ben Tillet declared that German trade unionists were as much to blame as the German Government, because for long they had boasted of their intention to crush France and England. ZEPPELIN EXPLODES.

WJIILE LEAVING A SUED. (Kec. 9.25 a.m.) AMSTERDAM, July 2. The Echo Beige states that a Zeppelin leaving a shed at Brussels, on Wed nesday. exploded. SUBMARINE'S HARVEST. DUMMY FUNNELS AND SAILS. (Reed 1 p.m.) LONDON, July 2. A submarine fired seventeen shots at the Caucasian, breaking down its funnel and carrying the wheel out of the captain's hand. The crew took to the boats. Th e Inglemoore picked up some, but was itself torpedoed. One of the Caucasian's boats headed for France and has not been seen since. A submarine torpedoed and sank the "barque Elsie Tower, timber-laden from Nova Scotia, off Fastnet. The crew laaded at Crcokhaven. The submarine then put up sails aud two dustiH? funnels and sailed, about

A PATRIOTIC YOUTH. DEVOTES HIS LEAVE. TO RECRUITING IN LONDON. (Reed 10.25 a.m.) LONDON, July 2. Dwyer, a nineteen-year-old winner vi the Victoria Cross, devoted his week's leave from th e Trout to recruiting hi London. He headed a march through the city with band playing. He delivered a speech in Trafalgar Square, and his recruiting was highly successful.

GERMAN ATTACK FAILS.

ASPHYXIATING BOMBS USES. (Reed 10.25 a.m.) PARIS, July 2, A communique states that heavy bombardment has taken place at many points, notably in the region of Woontan, north of Ypres. At Souchez and Vcrndil, north of the Aisne, an attack by German grenadiers to obtain the road, failed completely. The struggle continued in ArgG&ne with the greatest violence throughout the night, the Germans using asphyxiaitng bomba. STEAMER SUNK. A STRANGE PREDICTION. (Reed 11.25 a.m.) LONDON, July 2, Submarine;?, by gunfire, sank th« steamer Nor Wolbur<?, 'SOOO tons, oft Castletown, with TvlOO tons of susi'ir Oil bORIHI, Before. Uio &Ulp left Cuba, painted Inside the. hold, "Your earjsxi for England will never mi there, A trawler picked up tin- evew.

OFFICIAL REPORT,

ACTIONS IN KRANOE, LONDON, July 2.

An attack by <b nnun forces, proctdoil by bombardment, was mtute with violence at 2 o'clock this morning o» tli G lin,> between Ablain and Angres, north of the Boihttue Road. W« completely blocked two other attacks, and repulsed one It? Argomie, accompanied with large bomb-throw ins, containing asphyxiating gas. The other at Boia Lo Prctre was preceded by artillery Arc.

BRAVE ALPINI.

WATER SUPPLY DESTROYED. (Reed 11.5 a.m.) ROME, July 2. Five Alpani volunteered to destroy th G electricity works at Tonale Waterfails, supplying Rcva, Rovcrcto aiid neighbouring foils. They crept down steep rocks at Tcnale Gorge for four consecutive nights, carrying mines and dynamite, and succeeded in destroying the central conductor. THE KAISER EULOGISED. THE HELIGOLAND EXCHANGE. (Reed 11.5 a.m.) AMSTERDAM, July 2. German newspapers publish extensive eulogies of the Kaiser on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the agreement for the exchanging of Heligoland. Papers emphasise his foresight In obtaining the island, without which the present development of the German fleet v.-cukl have been impossible. If tlie Kaiser had not taken Heljuolan-y, the war would have been impossible. UNITED STATES FOOLED. BERNSTORFE'S TRICKERY. THE TRUTH REALISED. (Reed 11.30 a.m). LONDON, July 2. The New York Journal slates that Bemstorff is using the Sayville wireless station as an adjunct to his spy system. The Journal says he has been collecting messages for a month, and has bonded to the authorities copies of every line transmitted and received to and from Sayville during June, proving that he persistently fooled th e United States Government and the censors. Bemstorff furnished the United States with a false translation of the code used. .Another prolific way of sending ceded messages was the ostensibly requests for repeats containing masses of figures with secret meanings. These pretended repeats wcr e not reported to the United States Government. William Aster has given his sen, Captain John Jacob, serving with the Life Guards, and who was wounded in October, real estate in New Yirk valued seven million dollars. GERMANY AND AMERICA. ' IN DEFENCE OF THE SUBMARINE. AMSTERDAM. July 2. The HamtmrgCT Naehriehten ia disappointed at Gerhard's views on the [American attitude, and declares tlie.'.'e t is ik> ev*d«»ee that Americans aye opj poising tic delivery of supplies of finx- } munition fce f&e Allies, therefore sohw«vpfare, to which the Lwdtania , u-wri .. -i-ti'm, is a powerful and tnd.isi i■■•:■:.-:: S ■• ?'. of GorriVin warfare.