The Dardanelles.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 312, 11 June 1915, Page 5

The Dardanelles.

TURKS CONCENTRATING AT GALLiPOLI. ABAXDOXING OTHHIt CAM!>AIGXS. SULTAK READY TO RESIGN. • , Paris, June 9. the correspondent of the Echo de 7 al 'f ftt Salonika, represents that, owing to the uncertainty about Roumania and the stubborn attacks at Gallipoli, the .Committee of Union and Progress 'with the approval of the German officers, nave decided to abandon opent'oirugainst Egypt and Persia and concontrate all their forces in the Dardanelles. Constantinople, June 0. The Sultan declares that lie will resign when requewted to leave Constantinople. DOINGS OF OUR MEN. HARD PRESSED BUT VALIAXT. Sydney, June 10. Private Carroll, who was wounded-iw the Dardanelles, writing to a friend, nays; "After landing, my platoon rushed' forward and occupied a trench on the hilltop, which we had to hold from Sunday morning till Tuesday night, in spite of constant machine-gun fire and constat rushes. On .Monday night they shifted some big guns, which enfiladed ns and fairly blew the trenches to pieces. During Thursday they charged, and we passed the word to die fighting. Our fire heaped them up like rabbits in front of the trench, but they got all but one of us, including our officers. For fully twenty minutes only one man was on his feet. Then we wc-re reinforced. We had done our duty and held the position, though -only sixty of us wore in the trench." Captain Bean, cabling from Alexandria on the Bth, says: "The fighting is confined to that part of the line known as Quinn's Post. The Turks sapped up to two holes outside a trench, where they caused mine explosions and turned them into bomb-proof shelters. Two parties of Light Horse attacked and occupied the shelter/;, but were only, abl'R to retain one. A trench beyond our left, which the New Zealanders took and held for forty-eight hours, was afterVard.s enfiladed by artillery and liec:ime untenable, so the New Zcalanders retired to their old positions. General von Sanders directed the attack on May 10, and the men say they only hope he directs some more. All our men are in splendid fettle and well fed."