THE DARDANELLES.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXIX, Issue LXIX, 24 May 1915, Page 5

THE DARDANELLES.

PROGRESS ON THE PENINSULA

m .* LONDON, May 23. The Press Bureau says French forces in conjunction with the British considerably advanced on the 19th in the southern area of the- peninsula. ■ Our" aeroplanes, dropped bombs on Turkish reinforcements* landing at Akbashi and Liman, and caused considerable losses.

Sir lan Hamilton's re:>brt shows that two thousand Turks were killed out of seven thousand casaulties inflicted by the Australasians on ;the 19th.

MELBOURNE, May 23. .Mr Harcourt (Secretary for the Colonies), in cabling sympathy, announced that General Bridges had been gazetted K.C.B. Lord Liverpool has cabled New Zealand' 6 sorrow.