SEVERE FIGHTING AND APPRECIABLE GAINS.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXIX, Issue LXIX, 3 September 1915, Page 5

SEVERE FIGHTING AND APPRECIABLE GAINS.

ITALIAN OPINION.

EARLY FALL OF CONSTANTINOPLE EXPECTED.

A GERMAN REPORT

BRITISH 10§SEg VERY HEAVY.

TURKEY VERY SHORT OF MUNI-

TIONS.

LONDON, Sept. 2. ' General Sir lan Hamilton reports severe fighting on Friday and Saturday, with an appreciable gain of the ground occupied by tb,e Australians and New Zealanders. There were heavy Turkish losses.

Sir lain Hamilton! reports that the further fighting on August 27 and' 28 on the northern section of the line resulted in the capture of an important tactical feature commanding Bikuk and Aanafarta Valley to the east and north, and there was an appreciahje gain of the ground occupied by the Australian and- New Zealand army corps. The fighting was of a severe character, being almost entirely hand-to-hand. We captured three Turkish machine guns, three trench mortors, and a large quantity of arms and ammunition. ~ v : ~'■

The Echo de Paris reports that Turkey is violently protesting against Roumania's prohibition of the transfer of Grerman munitions, and denounces the attitude of Roumania as unfriendly. Salonika states, that within a very short tinje the Turks will ceas© hostilities unless the munitions situation is modified.

ROME, Sept. 2. The general impression in Rome is that the lack of ammunition will lead to the early fall of Constantinople, which, II Messagero says, is destined to mark the beginning of the second and decisive phase of the war. AMSTERDAM, Sopt. 2. The Frankfurter Zeitung says that 100,000 British participated in the at-1* tacks on Gallipoli on last Saturday and Sunday, losing extremely heavily, and estimates that since August 6 the British losses exceed 50,000, including six officers, while one cavalry division was wiped out.