THIRD EDITION.

Feilding Star, Volume XI, Issue 2733, 2 June 1915, Page 3

THIRD EDITION.

STAR OFFICE. 3 p.m. ~THEI war THE LATEST NEWS. THE DARDANELLES. TALES TOLD BY THE TURKS. BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH. —rCOPYBIGHX. PEE PEESS ASSOCIATION. (Received June 2, 1.20 p.m.) London, June 1. The Press Bureau states that prisoners who have arrived in Egypt declare that he losses at Gallipoli were terribly heavy. The 20th Regiment of Turks was almost annihilated, all the officers, excepting the colonel, being killed or captured, Avhilst the loth and 56th regiments lost almost as severely. Tbe loss of officers generally was very heavy. Gaps avo re filled up by naval officers and military cadets. The attacks on Krithia were the most costly for the Turks. Li man Pasha ordered an attack at night with empty magazines, using the bayonet only. The flares and searchlights of the Allies repeatedly caught the Turks, who Avore in close formation. Machine gun and rifle lire took them at point-blank rauge, punishing them terribly. | One captured officer said that afterAvards only 120 men could be collected out of a regiment of 1000 strong. The mountain guns of the Allies more than once caught the Turks assembling for an attack and kept them for some minutes under shrapnel lire, inflicting heavy losses. j An" Arab officer said the landing Avas ! costly aud difficult. When the Allies established themselves on the Gallipoli Peninsula it Avas our turn to suffer heavier losses or capture. A fort- ; night ago the Turkish losses Avero then at least 40,000 killed and Avound- ' ed I Other prisoners stated that two 1 Turkish battalions attacked each other at Calm Tope, losing heavily and ultimately stampeding. The British machine gun fire Avas particularly well-directed, and the. naval guns most effective. The heaviest shells, bursting over the trenches, paralysed the men near by. Some prisoners, admit that it is not known in the least degree Avhy Enver Pasha and Talaat Bey Avent to Avar. Others curse Germany heartily for dragging Turkey into tho Avar.