LITTLE AFFAIRS.
LONDON, July 30. Router's Dardanelles correspondent says that between day 3of big things we are now getting Kttle affairs of considerable strategic significance. From a little work commanding a gully the enemy had maintained an irritating fire since the 14th upon a sector of our new position. This had to bo stopped. French "seventy-fives 3' poured, in a. heavy fire, and then in blazing sunshine, with dust whirling in a gale, the men charged and brilliantly captured the position. There were heavy enemy losses Three hundred yards of trenches forming an ehciente in our new line were so packed with Turkish dead that they wore untenable. This is the sector that was taken and lost several times during the lnst big effort:..-The enemy artillery was very -active ■; duniig the assault.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 2733, 31 July 1915, Page 5
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132LITTLE AFFAIRS. Ashburton Guardian, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 2733, 31 July 1915, Page 5
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