TURKISH CAMPAIGN

Evening Post, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 149, 25 June 1915, Page 7

TURKISH CAMPAIGN

ON GALLIPOLI PENINSULA HEAVY CASUALTIES. FEW TURKS CAPTURED; The Minister of Defence (the Hon. James Allen) has received from Genera-1 Sir lan Hamilton, Commanding the British Expeditionary Forces, on Gallipoli, a despatch similar in terms to th© official message describing the attack on tho town of Gallipoli, which waa cabled from Cairo, and published in The Post yesterday. Referring to the resulte of the fighting, the General adds: — "I am afraid that casualties are con« siderable, but details are lacking. The enemy lost very heavily. The type of fighting did not lend itself to making prisoners, and only some fifty (including an officer) are in our hands. "The French casualties were approximately 2500, which, for the great success attained, is not excessive. The einemyl's casualties we're very heavy, being estimated at not less than 7000. Many were caused by the French 'seventy-fives,' which, during the coun-ter-attack yesterday morning, caught the Turks in dense formation and absolutely mowed them down. *» "The Turks were most gallant, and when short of ammunition, fought the French with stones and fists, and in spite of the heavy artillery fire advanced in rushes between the salvos."