TURKISH LOSSES 7000.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXIX, Issue LXIX, 21 May 1915, Page 7

TURKISH LOSSES 7000.

*■ (Received; May- 21, 2.30 p.m.) -. MELBOURNE, May 21. Sir lan Hamilton has cabled to the Government that General • Bridges died .. oa the passage to Alexandria; "The whole force," he continues, *'mourns their irreparable loss, which was avenged yesterday in a brilliant action by our troops, who inflicted the loss of seven thousand on the enemy at a cost of less than five hundred to themselves."