VERY HEAVY TURKISH LOSSES.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXIX, Issue LXIX, 28 May 1915, Page 7

VERY HEAVY TURKISH LOSSES.

(Received May 28, 2.30 p.m.) LONDON, May 27. The Press Bureau at Cairo states that General Birdwood reports that during the suspension of hostilities to bury* the dead much larger losses than three thousand, came ±o light. Two other areas were covered with Turkish dead and four hundred corpses were counted on a space eighty -yards by one hunclred. --.';. i ', The Turkish burying parties worked, quietly and quickly. All were supplied with cotton wool prepared with some solution to deaden the stench—a most necessary precaution. Over twelve hundred Turkish rifles , were picked up on our side of the dividing line during the suspension. We rushed and occupied a trench on Tuesday in front of General Cox's Brigade. _