PROGRESS AT DARDANELLES.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LII, Issue 15916, 13 May 1915, Page 6

PROGRESS AT DARDANELLES.

General Sir lan Hamilton has added his professional commendation to the many high tributes already paid to the valour of the New Zealand and Australian troops at the Dardanelles. Whether we take his dignified description of the landing on Gallipoli Peninsula as " an imperishable record of military virtue " or his lighter appreciation of men who were " as keen as mustard," there is nothing halting in the praise of the distinguished soldier who only a year ago frankly told New Zealand and Australia all their military faults and shortcomings. Many unprecedented feats have been accomplished in this great war, and among them will unquestionably be accounted the landing on Gallipoli Peninsula, which General Birdwood has truly described as an undertaking such as had never before been attempted in the history of the world. As to the military results of the audacity and dash of our troops, we have Sir lan Hamilton's record of the progress made up to a week ago, showing that the British forces are well established and the Turkish resistance weakening. The New Zealanders and Australians at the time of this latest report were still containing powerful forces of the enemy towards the narrow neck of the Peninsula, while the British and French were inflicting losses on the Turks to the south and the Allied warships were destroying the forts guarding the Narrows. Thereseejs* every reason to hope that complete success will speedily follow the brilliant beginning of the enterprise.