THE "FRENCH DIVERSION".
EFFECTUALLY CONDUCTED. (Peed. lv.;. .•t.r.i..) PARIS, May 7. A regiment of colonial infantry on April 2G, with a battery oi" seventy-fivers, which was ordered to create a diversion on the Asiatic shore, landed at Kum Kaleh, under protection of the guns of French ships. The disembarkation was carried out under good conditions. The force marched to Kenishehir. A fierce fight began at night and was continued on the following day. The Turks, who had greatly superior numbers suffered heavily, and a few hundred were taken prisoner. The re-embarkation of the troops was effected on the night of the 28th with the support oi" the warships. Meanwhile large forces landed on the Gallipoli Peninsula.
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Northern Advocate, 8 May 1915, Page 5
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