HEAVY TURKISH LOSSES.

Taranaki Daily News, 10 July 1915, Page 5

HEAVY TURKISH LOSSES.

25,000 IN THE RECENT FIGHTING. J Received July 9, S.!> p.m. Athens, July 8. j The Turkish losses in the most recent fighting were 2.5,000. An urgent ordw was sent to the Constantinople hospital-; to prepare 15,000 beds. COLONIAL TROOPS PRAISED. (Times and Sydney Sun Services.) Received July 9, 9.45 p.m. London, July 9. The Daily Mail comments on the desperate character of the undertaking at the Dardanelles which stands out in every line of General Sir lan Hamilton's despatch; The valor of the New Zc-alanders and Australians, who dashed unhesitatingly towards the Turkish trenches, equalled that of our heroic regulars. It is a welcome thought that all the dominions shared in the laurels #f the battlefield. NAVY PRAISES COLONIALS. Received July 10, 12.45 a.m. Melbourne, July !>. Admiral Thursby, of H.M.S. Queen Elizabeth, writing to General Birdwood, expresses the. navy's intense admiration for the gallantry of the Australia* and New Zealand troops. The dashing way in which they took the position will become historic. He adds: Please convey to all ranks the honor we feel at being allowed to co-operate with the Australianand New Zealand Army Corps. FRENCH GENERAL'S INJURIES. Received July 9, 10.10 p.m. Paris, July 9. General Gnurad's right arm was amputated on the voyage, lie is sult'ermg from fracture of the right thigh a-nd left leg. llis condition is satisfactory.

CARE OF THE WOUNDED.

ADKOI/ATK HOSPITAL ARKAXI »K----JIK.XTS. Received July !), ]). m. London. .July Sir Frederick Troves states lie lias visited the hospitals at Malta, Cairo, Alexandria, Port Said, and Mudros, and unhesitatingly says tlie arrangements are adequate'. Many beds are unoec']picrt, and there are plenty of doctors and nurses, there being a number of operating surgeons of the highest flass from Kn:;laiiil and Australia. The work «! Red Cross is simply magnificent, and the Australian doctor has done as well as his comrade in the lighting line. Sir Frederick Treves adds: T had the opportunity of seeing in the freest possible manner all arrangements made in the Mediterranean area, for the reception of sick and wounded from the Dardanelles. The Royal Army Medical Corns maintained the" high reputation it has earned in this campaign, while of the vast colonial medical corps I can use 110 stronger terms of praise than by saying tlie Australian army doctor has done as well as his comrade in the lighting line. The casualties are very great, heavier, 1 imagine, than wa.s ever aiiticipated. Owing to the sudden arrival of large convoys of wounded there liave been periods 'of severe pressure and urgent stress just as in tlie early days of the campaign in France. These dire emergencies were met heroically and with no little success, especially when it is remembered the distances and the great communications were not- too easy, and the diliiculties in connection with transport were often insurmountable.