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DARDANELLES ATTACK

DID RUSSIA REQUEST IT? (Received October 1, 2.45 p.m.) LONDON, 30th September. Mr. R. L. Outhwaite in the House of Commons asked ' whether Sir George Buchanan's (British Ambassador) statement from Petrograd was true that the attack on the Dardanelles was partly due to a Russian request, so as Ito divert the Turks 'from the Caucasus. Lord Robert Cecil, Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs, replied that the operation doubtless drew the Turks from the Russian and Egyptian fronts. A fuller statement was inexpedient.

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Evening Post, Volume xc, Issue 79, 1 October 1915, Page 8

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DARDANELLES ATTACK Evening Post, Volume xc, Issue 79, 1 October 1915, Page 8

DARDANELLES ATTACK Evening Post, Volume xc, Issue 79, 1 October 1915, Page 8