THE DARDANELLES
A GREAT OFFENSIVE. * BY THE ALLIES. REPORTS FROM GERMAN Received Nov. 23, 7.4G pjn. Rotterdam, Nov. 22. The Kolniacbe Zeitung says it is reported from Constantinople that the Allies |ave begun a great offensive at the Dardanelles. AN ARTILLERY DUEL VIOLENT BOMB-FIRING. ( Received Nov. 23, 5.5 p.m. Paris, Nov. 82. A Constantinople communique states that there is an artillery duel along the entire front, and violent bomb-firing it Sedd-ul-Bahr. JNORK OF BRITISH AIRMEN. A; NARROW ESCAPE. . Wellington, Nov. 23. < The High Commissioner reports under date London, November 22 (6.35 p.m.); In the Dardanelles two British aeroplanes successfully attacked the railway station at Fenedjik, near Enos, on Friday. One machine was brought down by the enemy's fire, the pilot managing to land in the marshes on the opposite side the river, where he burnt his machine, Tl)e second pilot landed )?- side him and brought him away just in time to escape capture. At Russell's Top, in the Anzac zone, where the Turks recently fired a mine, we occupied, on Saturday, part of the enemy's underground workings. A fight occurred underground, in which two Turks were shot by our officer and Mveral others wen killed with bombs. . TOTAL CASUALTIES. OVER 92,000. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Wellington, Last 2fight. ills Excellency the Governor has received a cable from the Secretary of State for tho Colonies, giving the numbers of casualties in the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force ap to October 23rd. They are as follows; Regular Officers -.-..njwjKra 1900 Other ranks •......37,488 Territorial officers 1060 Other ranks 92^155 Australian officers .-=r.- 1002 • Other ranks . 23,361 New Zealand officers icwvrT 317 , Other ranks t ~ fail » iaK n-. m R S 6560 Total 92,042
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Taranaki Daily News, 24 November 1915, Page 5
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