THE DARDANELLES.

Press, Volume LII, Issue 15490, 18 January 1916, Page 7

THE DARDANELLES.

THE EVACUATION. THE TURK'S "BOOTY." EXTRAVAGANT CLAIMS. (By Ca<bl«.—Preea Association.—Copyright.) LONDON, January 10. A Turkish communique says:— "Tho booty at Anafarta and Ari Burnu includes ten guns, thirteen mortars, two thousand rifles and bayonets, 6750 shells, 4500 cases of ammunition, 45,000 bombs, 221 waggons, sixty-seven lighters and pontoons, much petrol, 21,000 tins of meat, five thousand sacks of corn,, and 12,500 spades and pickaxes." Anafarta and Ari Burnu are both n tho Suvla Bay and Anzac zones of Gallipoli Peninsula. ENEMY PRESS COMMENT. RECONCILING FACT AND FICTION. ("Times" and "Sydney Sun" Services.) LONDON. January 16. The Bulgarian and German Press, in commenting on tho evacuation of Gallipoli, state that the prestige of the Allies is "melting like butter in the sun," but their jubilation is perfunctory and half-hearted, as their writers have obvious difficulty in reconciling the fact 3 with the Turkish fictions of victorv. The "Berliner Lokalanzeiger" states that it is surprised to hear that the British troops were removed with such small losses, but adds that certainly there was no lack of ships for the embarkation of tho luckless remnants of tho expedition. LAST DAYS AT ANZAC. {Received January 17th, 8.35 p.m.) LONDON, January 17. Tho newspapers are making a special feature of the narrative of the last days at Anzac by tho Official New Zealand War Correspondent.

MAJOR G. SMITH, D.S.O. THE KING'S WISHES. (Received January 17th, 8.5 p.m.) LONDON, January 17. The King, in handing the insignia of tho Distinguished Service Order to Major G. Smith, a New Zealand officer, showed particular interest in his wounds, and expressed tho hope that ho would quickly recover. Major Geoffrey Samuel Smith left with tho Main Expeditionary Force, as captain in the 14th (South Otago) Company of tho Otago Battalion. Ho was born in Wendover (England) in 1872, and came to New Zealand at the ago of 23 years, and was engaged on several sheep stations in Central Otago. His first commission was in tho Alexandra South Volunteers. He accompanied the Ninth New Zealand Contingent 10 South Africa in 1902, as a lieutenant, and returned to New Zealand in the same year. He was afterwards engaged gold-dredging on the Irawadi river for ten years, and subsequently visited England. He then spent a year prospecting in Siberia, and on August 11th, 1914. ho returned to Wellington just in time to volunteer for serrico vith tho Main Expeditionary Force. He was reported scverelv wounded on May 11th, 1915.