The Dardanelles.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 296, 24 May 1915, Page 5

The Dardanelles.

CONSIDERABLE ADVANCE. ' MADE. i • —■ r &ed HEAVY LOSS BY TURKS. ' KILLED BY THE COLONIALS. * deceived May 2-1, 12.10 a.m. London, May 23. J lie Press Bureau says French force* m conjunction with the British conflict* erably advanced on the 10th in the «m>' tliern area of the peninsula. Our aeroplanes dropped bomba o* iurkish reinforcements landing at A'Kt .Iwjiln and Liiuan, and caused consider-' 'able losses. , • Sir lan Hamilton's report sliowg that two thousand Turks were killed out of seven thousand casualties Inflicted by tlie Australasians on the 19th. VIOLENT BATTLE PBOCEEDEHJ. , m Athens, May 21. i. -i- , nM «<papers ""flounce that tft* British reward for information to the destruction of German sabmar- « ilies has been raised to £2OOO. , • ■ Advices from the Dardanelles sUta tha the Allies are engaged in a violent battle near the m-ek of the CallipoH I emnsuia under the protection of tbe .•neen Mmfaetl* guns. The Goeben, in tin Sea of Marmora, supported the urvs. Another five hundred prisoner# have been conveyed to Tenedos. >/j 1 . W!ls 11 lively bombardment! in tne ■"'traits 0 n Thursday, particularly of encampments on the Asiatic coast and tlie towns on tlie Dardanelles. GalUnoll' was seriously damaged.

GENERAL BRIDGES' DEATH. AX IMPRESSIVE FUNERAL. London. May 21. it appears that General Bridges was shot in the nppjr part of the leg white : visiting the trenches on the hills of Sari fiahr, probably by a sniper. A doctor, who was near by, immediately attended to Ins wounds. The most severe m Weeding profusely. .First aid was renw' !" Ivns .™rried to the beach, where he was again carefully attended. It was realised that tlin most serious lifhcnlty was in stopping tlio bleeding. 1 < flas placed on the hospital ship awl OAerything possible was don,., hut they J < rt unable to stem the bleeding. Grow. * .V'"! 7' (hmeral passed away nu'ctly before reaching Alexandria, with • i« camp ' C,lptain F ««ter. who slightly wounded, by his bedaide. Ihc sliii) arrived yesterday morning. . 10 " I( ' ral in tlie afternoon was moat impressive, owing to the quietude of the ceremony 111 '' 3 "Wty of the J' 10 00 / r "> was shouldered l \ Aiistralmhs, and followed by GenDudley™, f T otllor generals, Lord 'udh.v. many officers, and about sixty men. He was laid to rest in tile militan cemetery. .When "The Ust Post" was sounded there was haitfy o M %. .' heni.tifnl T" n R ' nfT,(! wrp ath, a. rrvi p °" P *. 1 ,ir A - McMahon, - High Commissioner for Egypt. «• < ~ -Melbourne, May 22. '* V ■ S ', r A - has cabled the Divisions sympathy with the irreparable amCd by tL ' c dcath of General

Received May 23,. 3.40 p.m. ~ , T Melbourne, Mail 23. Mr. Harcourt (Secretary for the Colons), cablingsvmpathv.anU" I'd that fJeneral Bridges had h*» jetted K.C.B. Lord Liverpool cabled New Zealand's sorrow. TURKS CLEARED FROM PERSIAN • ARABISTAN. i mi n y, London, May St. , " ro!ln stal, ' s tm recent opi ations have cleared out all Turks from Persian Arabistan. GERMAN AEROPLANE INTERNED. Received May 23, 3.30 p.m. .. „ Geneva, Mav 22. A German aeroplane bound for Tufter alighted near Constant™. i„ Roumania. l\vo officers wore interned.