GALLIPOLI

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue XLII, 9 June 1923, Page 7

GALLIPOLI

» EARLY EVACUATION BY BKITISH TROOPS WELCOME ORDER, ( BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT LONDON, June 8. The Constantinople correspondent oi the Daily Express, who has just returned from a visit to the Dardanelles, states the troops there welcome the ■ prospect of early evacuation. The mush- ; room town of Kelia is ready to disapi pear at the first word from Lausanne. i The graves of our dead are splendidly tended. The Turkish forces face the British in tranquillity, except for occasional bickering about the possession of the barbed wire at certain points.