DESPERATE BATTLE NEAR MAIDOS
INCESSANT BOMBARDMENT IN THE NARROWS ADMIRATION FOR TROOPS' COURAGE. ATHENS, 3rd. May. The newspapers are publishing accounte of the landing, and express tho utmost admiration for the courage and determination , wherewith the Australasianß, British, and French fought through what were bi^ieved to be impregnable defences. Only 4000 French landed at Kum Kale, although there were twenty transports there with a view of giving th© Turks the idea of a great diaembarka* tion. Tho French are now advancing towards Arenkioi. Several forts in the Narrows have been eilenoed. The bombardment is incessant. On Saturday the Queen Elizabeth's gune did terrible ■ execution in the enemy's trenches. The tremendous displacement of earth buried many There was a desperate battle in the vicinity of Maidos. A Turkish battalion was captured.
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Evening Post, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 104, 4 May 1915, Page 7
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130DESPERATE BATTLE NEAR MAIDOS Evening Post, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 104, 4 May 1915, Page 7
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