BOOTY ON GALLIPOLI
TURKISH EXAGGERATION
MEN BEFORE MATERIAL.
LONDON, 20th January, in the House of Commons, Sir W P Byles asked if the booty left at Gallipoli was valued at £2,000,000 and included 50,000 blankets and a million kilogrammes of oats and barley (as alleged in a recent enemy message)
Mr. H. J. .Tennent, Under-Secretary to the War Office, said that the primary object was the safe removal of the troops, then as much material as possible. A considerable amount of stores was abandoned after it had been destroyed It was impossible to estimate its_ value. It was possible that more stores might have been saved, but; public opinion would endorse the action of removing the personnel.
Colonel A. R. M. Lockwood: Would the value of the abandoned stores approach two millions ?
Mr. Tennent No. It would not be a quarter, nor. perhaps an eighth of that amount.
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Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 17, 21 January 1916, Page 7
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148BOOTY ON GALLIPOLI Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 17, 21 January 1916, Page 7
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