THE DARDANELLES
MINING ACTIVITY. TURKS PUT TO FLIGHT. Received Dec. 2, 5.5 p.m. Paris, Dee. 1. A communique slates: On Saturday and Sunday nt the Dardanelles there was the usual activity on both sides. One of our galleries penetrated a Turkish gallery and our sappers put the occupants to flight with revolvers and grenades. CHRISTMAS MAILS LOST. WORK OF AUSTRALIAN THIRD BRIGADE. Received Dee. 2, 8.10 p.m. Sydney, Dec. 2. Captain Bean, cabling on Nov. 13th, mentions that a vessel carrying a large portion of the Australian soldiers' Christmas mails foundered, and 168 bags were lost.
The weather was chilly, but the troops were exceedingly confident, and cheerfully endured all hardships. Nevertheless, they must face the fact that winter was there, and there would be severe hardship. Captain Bean saya that the Australian Third Brigade, the first troops to land, were still in the trenches, which they had occupied continuously since the landing, and only now is it being found possible to relieve part of the Brigade.
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Taranaki Daily News, 3 December 1915, Page 5
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167THE DARDANELLES Taranaki Daily News, 3 December 1915, Page 5
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