The Dardanelles.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 299, 27 May 1915, Page 5

The Dardanelles.

GOOD FRENCH ADVANCE. KEIXFOUCKJIEX'i'S l«*oii ALLIES. ' London, May 25. I lie i'r JJureau states that the Ist I'rcnea Division in the Dardanelles on rnduy mucin coii&iiloniblii aim IS now close to the Turkish trenches. Isc.vt day tin,' enemy determinedly attacked the lel't of the Indian -Brigade, gaing a temporary footing, but a strong counter-attack drove 'hack the Turks with a Joss of five hundred. A numbet we re also taken prisoner. On the 23rd the 'lurks asked and were granted a suspension of hostilities opposite the Australian and New Zealand corps to enable them to 'bury their dead lying close to our trenches. Over three thousand Turks wen; buried, all killed between the ISth and 23rd. The French, in conjunction with the ISriti,sh naval division, made a considerable advance on the night of the 24th, with slight loss. A Herman wireless message states, that i)0,00U British and French troops have been landed in the Dardanelles. The delence of the Dardanelles has been entrusted to Admiral von I'nesdom, once commander of the yacht llohenzollern. Athens, May 25, The Turks' First. Army Corps, the flower of the army, has been sent to tho Gallipoli Peninsula. The newspaper Pri'poritz reports a mutiny of Young Turks against the German officers at Clianak Kalessi. There have been several bloody engagements, and many mutineers have been killed and others conveyed to Constantinople. Amsterdam, May 25. An official message from Constantinople states that a Turkish submarine sank a Russian armored ship in the Pluck Sea. Athens, May 25. The Allies repulsed the latest Turkish attacks and resumed the offensive. Fresh troops were landed and the bombardment of the straits continues.

TRICKS OF THE COLONIALS. LOCATION OF EXIiMY'S GL'XS. Received INlay 20, 8. 1 .)- p.m. Cairo, May 2(i. lieuter says tlie Australasian and Turkish trendies at Sari Bahr were sometimes only thirty yards apart, hi many eases the colonials would eatch the Turkish grenades and immediately fling them ■hack, so tiiat t'ley would explode ill the Turkish tfcnches. The Australasians are continually playing tricks. One Silled a jam tin with cotton wool soaked in oil and set it alight and Hung it in a trench. The Turks scattered in all lirections, amid the colonials' cheers. _ Thorn was the greatest difficulty in locating the Turkish artillery. Directly an aeroplane mounts the Turkish fire teases, and not a shot from a heavy gun is fired at night. It is 'believed the guns are run underground on rails to a given spot. A few shots are fired and then the guns are diverted to another •emplacement. The Turks never come to close quarters with the Australasians, for directly they see the bayonets they are off. The Turks are poor rifle shots, but are fairly accurate with the machine-guns, which alone are holding the colonials. Stories of atrocities must be accepted with reserve, as they are seldom firsthand information. After a recent assault at Oaba Tepe, the Turkish commander permitted the British to bury their dead and_ carry off their wounded. The position* at Oaba Tepe is very strong, being a mass of trenches. The Queen Elizabeth continues to do great work. In one case a long line of camels was seen on the hills, sixteen miles distant, and the warship fired a shot at the camels, which were not seen again.

IN MKMOIIY OF A HERO. Received May 26, 11.5* p.m. London, May 26. The scene of Colonel Doughty Wyllie's death has been named DougliTJ' Wyllic Hill. (Colonel Doughty Wyllic, of the. staff superintending the landing of the Australasians. on going ashore, he ran in front of the foremost Australasians and shouted to the men to follow, and carried position after position until the enemy was cleared out, the colonel being shot dead.)

NATURE OF THE WOUNDS. Received May 20/8.5 p.m. ■London, May 2'd. The Hon. Sir John McCall (AgentGeneral for Tasmania), who visited the Tasmanian wounded in England, states that the Dardanelles wounds arc healing nutch better than wounds of corresponding gravity received in France. This is attributed to the less cultivated soil of Gallipoli.