GREEK ADMIRATION.
•IMPREGNABLE" DEFENCES CONQUERED. 7-__" QUEEN ELIZABETH AGAIN. (Received May 3rd, 11.30 p.m.) * ATHENS. May 3. The newspapers aro publishing accounts of tho landing. They express the utmost admiration for tho courago and determination with which tho Australasian, British, and French troops fought through what was believed to bo impregnable defences. Only four thousand French troops landed at Kum Kale, although twenty transports were there. This was dono •with a. view to giving the Turks tho idea of a great disembarkation. Tlio French aro now advancing towards Erenkeul (several miles up the Strait from Kum Kale). Several forts in the Narrows wero silenced. Tho bombardment was incessant on Saturday. The Queen Elizabeth's guns did terrible execution in the enemy's trenches. A tremendous displacement of earth buried many. *A desperate battle was,fought in the vicinity of Maidos (opposite whero the Australasian troops landed), and a Turkish battalion was captured.
BRITISH NAVAL CASUALTIES. (Received May 3rd, 11.30 p.m.) LONDON, May 3. The naval casualties in the Dardanelles from April 25th to April 30th were twenty-six killed and eixty wounded-
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Press, Volume LI, Issue 15269, 4 May 1915, Page 7
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