The Dardanelles.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 316, 16 June 1915, Page 5

The Dardanelles.

THE HEIGHTS OF MAIDOS. STILL HELD BY COLONIALS. HOPELESSNESS OF TURKEY, . PEACE HER SALVATION. Received June 15, 7.30 p.m. Loudon, June H. lho Daily Chronicle's Athens correspondent says tlu; latest news from tin Dardanelles is. that the Allies' position continues to matemllv improve Tin Turks still occupy Kiithia, which is a "lined village, and are offering a stroiv resistance. The Australians and New /enlanders hold an impregnable position dominating Maidos and Kilid Bahr. the feeling against (Germany is steadily rising, at Constantinople. Even Germans recognise the hopelessness of the eiUly «*"» * iU »'<- BOMBARDMENT OF ASIA MINOR. I A PORT F£RKS BADLY. Received June 15, 7.30 p.m. „ Athens, June 14. IHO Ireneli destroyers bombarded' Ichesine in Asia Minor, opposite Chinos. A 1 I tL 1 laStwl fort y AH the Mvihug vessels in the harbor we-e sunk, and the Customs and Telegraph Tile r al l - r trol Storeß IVRrc destroyed tains. garrison fled to the miun"STICKING IT." AUSTRALIAN BRAVERY. a r - u ,r June 15. A Light Ifcrse officer writes:—"lt as been said that the bravely shown on the l,al ,p„h Peninsula might have been the valor ignorance, but having ived with our boys for nine months eonyinces me til,at they will always stick it to the sast man. There will i i? ' ,ri : aki "? »fain. There fs no doubt that ill tine- first buttle they did filler to a greater extent than trained soldiers would have done, through their i eckless and impetuous bravery. The nature of the country absolutely precluded control by either officers or men, jind it 'was simply up to the individual to act on his own initiative."

MORE CAREFUL PROGRESS. A C(XJP-miLUN. rvo- • 1 I,flris 'J un <! H. Official: Operations in the J) ai . ( | a . forl^J]'f Ve ' bl ; , ' , ! l n,o<iin "' l the last foitnyit, and the Mity general attacks June■ «iu-n place to slower progression care hilly prepared and methodically rained out. The French efforts are concentrated around » a «fw of entrenchments, winch the Turks hollowed out 111 front ot a ravine called Kerevisderc. The Colonial Regiment, on the 2Sth. was ordered to storm a little fort 011 the extreme left of the Turkish lirv The foreground was swept I>y rifle live and machine-guns. A normal attack would have demanded enormous sacrifices. A coup-dc-main was therefore ■planned. A section, composed of 34 Europeans and 42' Senegalese, was ordered to steal out at night singly from the trenches, crawl forward and" when concentrated, hmd themselves oil the Turks without firing a shot. The prty at midnight crawled within forty metres, charged shouting, and leapt the parapet. The Turks, surprised, discharged their rifles and lied, and the fort was captured. The T"renc:i casualties were a sergeant and two men wounded. "A GREAT DAY IN OUR HISTORY." HOW AUSTRALASIANS STORMED WIE HEIGHTS AT OABA TEPJS. Auckland, June 14. The landing of a section of the New Zealand infantry at flaha Tope was witnessed by Driver R. A. Steele, of the Divisional Signal Company, from the deck of a transport. During the return voyage to Alexandria Steele wrote the following description, which arrived'her: to-day: "The Australians landed first, about 2 a.m. on Sunday. April 25—a great day in our history. They were rowed' ashore in small boats by the navymen, jumped into the water waist tlcep, fixed bayonets, and made a magnificent charge on the Turks, driving them hard up the steep dill's. The Australians are the boys to fight—real Britons. "Our ship, the ITutgow, reached the scene of action about 8 a.m., with the whole of the Auckland Infantry Battalion and half the Canterbury Battalion, the Divisional 'Headquarters, and our Signalling Company. Our ship was the flagship, hence the headquarters being on board. "Our infantry landed about fV.O a.in. The .°>rd Auckland and Hith Waikaio Companies reinforced the Australians an Hie left llank, and, I regret :o say, experienced terrible fighting, resulting in heavy casualties. The Signalling Company landed with the infantry, and was stationed on tlic beaeh. "We drivers had to remain on board in charge of our horses, it impossible to land horses and transport*. We Wcro anchored just oil' the ;-hore other troopships and battleships, the latter, sixteen in all. besides seven destroyers, in the midst of the enemy's shells." Driver Steele stales that three hospital ships were in readiness to revive {.he wounded, and the and another tro<ip>hips wTe also requisitioned. The won 1 ded uvn began to arrive on Sunday evening. All the lifeboats wtc Kent to the be,iehe< for tile wounded, and were continually engaged in taking Inen off duriii'.' (hat niyhi. and all ivvr. dav. On Tuesday morning the llutgow and another (roo]iship (both full of wounded> left fii,' Ali-vsusilna. arriving there 011 Tlinrsilav. April 2!l. Descriliing tic (f [!>•> l.iudiug. Driver Steele wnd e: —*■ ihe country : - Very rough and steip; parts with (h'rk scnilt. waist Ireh. in vlpe'i the Tnr!:--have sealleri'i! a hrge ,„, m I., T of snip. They seemed to be everywhere, and -!eif down our officers fad. Of course, during the time of our him"' battleships were Ixsiiilmrilsi hnd the Turkish fori*, doin 1 t 1 nge, Our ]><>vs err doing y, II 1 1 making geeid proere.,, Hie ItrilHi Tommies landed further do with 110 oppo-dlio'i unfil (Isey got. well Inland, and wh.n we left fie' .eat 'if fiction they wov in l.wli wilh our |io\>. and giving the Tuik" Ml l»dv,-rv;i llieni,"