The Dardanelles.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 314, 14 June 1915, Page 5

The Dardanelles.

STRUGGLE FOR A TRENCH.

FIXE WORK BY > T KW ZEALANDERS FIGHTING NEAR GULP OF SAIiOS. Received June 13, 2 p.m. Sydney, June 13. Captain Bean, in a cable dated June 5, says two small parties of New Zealanders. last night took a Turkish trench )pposite Quiim's post. One party suffered considerably. The Turks counter-attacked at five )'clock this morning. The place is a rentable Hades, with bombs bursting )ver the captured trench at the rate of ibout four a minute. .Despite this ;hc New Zealanders, at the time of writng, were still holding and strengthening A tremendous bombardment by the ingle-French force operating nt the southern end of the peninsula was audble all yesterday. Bursting shrapnel md high explosives from June 1 have been clearly visible along the tops of he ridges bordering the Gulf of Sarjs. TURKEY'S HOPELESS POSITION. NO WAR WITH ITALY. TURKEY SEEKING PEACE. Received June 13, 2.10 p.m. . London, June 12. Mr. Martin Donohue (the war correspondent) says Turkey is realising the hopelessness of the position indirectly ;onveyed by Italy, and it is Turkey's intention not to declare war. This foreshadows the Porte's divorce from its German partner, and .moreover, it is understood that Turkey is socking a suitable channel through which to treat ivith the Entente Powers. TEN THOUSAND WOUNDED. "ONLY THE BEGINNING." Received June 13, 4.5 p.m. Sydney, June 13. A soldier's letter states: "The Turks :rept at night up to our trenches, and tve caught them dressed as Indians." A New Zealander, Lieutenant Spargow, writes: "We have ten thousand ivounded brought from Gallipoli vo Egypt, and this is only the beginning." ALLIES UP TO STRENGTH. COLONIALS IN GOOD SPIRITS. Received June 13, 4.5 p.m. London, June 12. Renter's Athens correspondent says the Allies are firmly established. All have been brought up to strength with needful stores. The Australians and New Zealanders arc in the best of spirits. ALLIES NEAR MAIDOS. DOMINATING HEIGHTS TAKEN. A FIERCE ENGAGEMENT. Received June !3, 5 p.m. Athens, June 11. The Allies, after successive attacks, occupied on Wednesday the heights dominating Maidos. There was a fierce engagement between the Allies and the enemy nig'it and day on June Bth, 'the Allies' aeroplanes scouting the firing line. ENEMY LOSE HEAVILY. Paris, June 11. An official communique from the Dardanelles says we made fresh pn.sn-s on the right extremity at Kereveilere. Prisoners Ink.'ii roiilirii] tin- re]>o:-l, that (lie enemy ha.-; suffer-tl <">11 -iilcliibit' losses. RUSSTAN DESTIinYKi;. RF.Pi>r,TEU srxK. Received June 13. 4.5 p.m. Amsterdam. June 12. A telegram from Constantinople says that fighting on (lie night of the lltli. the. V.iack Sea cruiser Middli sunk a large Russian destroyer and returned to ' port safely.