TURKISH TRENCH CAPTURED BY NEW ZEALANDERS

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLVIII, Issue XLVIII, 14 June 1915, Page 5

TURKISH TRENCH CAPTURED BY NEW ZEALANDERS

SYDNEY, June 13. Captain Bean, the j official correspondent; with the . Australian troops, an a cable ..dated sth inst. ,sap: Two small parties of New Zealanders last nighttook a. .Turkish trench opposite Pest- . One party, suffered considerably. . '-'The Turks > counter-attacked at . nye o'clock this morning- The place was a veritable Hades, bombs bursting ovei the, captured trench, at; the rate, of about : ."Despite! this the New ZeaJanders at the time of: -.writing. are still holding and ombardment by the Anglo-French force, operating at the southern, end of the Peninsula was audible 111 yesterday. The bursting of shrapnel and high- explosives from June Ist lias been clearly viaible alons the tops of the ridges bordering the l*ult ot Sarcfs. . . . - ' FRENCH OFFICIAL REPORT. (Official.) PARIS, June 11. We have made fTesli. progress on the right extremity of Pneoners .state that there were considerable enemy losses. AUSTRALIAN CASUALTIES. SYDNEY, June 13. The 37th casualty list is_ Died of wounds: Captain Hooke, Lieutenants Burley and McWilliams. Wounded: Lieutenant-Colonel Surname. Captains Nicholas, Gnmwood, Jackson, Tierby, Forsyth, Lieutenants Hartnell, Sinclair, Smith, Wilson, Sheawood, Cooper., Olden, Camphell, Colpitis, Tridd, Williams, McLoughry, Tay'loiv.. . .. Killed in action : Eighty-two non-com-missioned officers, and , men. ' • Died of wounds : Sixteen. Died of disease: Five. Dangerously,,,i\l: IJiye Wpunded :. r 103. Missing': One. TOTAL CASUALTIES 7623.

(Rec. 10.30 a.m.T . This Day. Australian casualties.vt6, datp aro 7023, including l llsß NEW ZEALAND OFFICERS KILLED LONDON, June 12 Naval . Lieutenant Jas.,. 8.. Church, formerly . of- Jke.Eijian. pontin-g^ nV and Lieutenantr-Coinrnander Herbert- Oft de Evans, a Ne-w. Zealander. killed at the Dardanelles;'"* Sublieutenant- f. b. Kelly, the oarsman, -was mounded.