REPORT FROM GALLIPOLI

New Zealand Herald, Volume LII, Issue 15916, 13 May 1915, Page 7

REPORT FROM GALLIPOLI

HEAVY TURKISH LOSSES. DEFENCE WEAKENING. NOTABLE SUCCESS IN FRANCE. ALLIES STORM A FORTRESS. ■--— ■ GERMANS DRIVEN FROM TRENCHES COMMUNICATION THREATENED. A report from General Sir lan Hamilton, relating to the operations of the British forces in the Gallipoli Peninsula, states that there was continual fighting from May 2 to May 6, though the Turkish attacks diminished in intensity. On each occasion the enemy was repulsed without difficulty. There are indications that the enemy's losses were very heavy Indeed. The New Zealanders and Australians had been engaged, and had fulfilled a most valuable function in containing powerful forces of the enemy towards the narrow neck of the peninsula.

In a cable message to His Excellency the Governor, General Sir lan Hamilton pays a high tribute to the New Zealand and Australian contingents.

A communique from Paris states that British and French troops attacked the Turkish positions in the south of the peninsula, and captured a height near Krithia.

The Russians report the renewal of the bombardment of the Bosphorus forts.

The allies are vigorously pursuing the offensive north of Arras, and have gained new ground. The entire system of German trenches in the region of the Loos>Vermelles Road was captured. A chapel at Notre Dame de Lorette, which has been transformed by the Germans into a fortress, was invested and stormed, the enemy being driven out of trenches to the south. German reinforcements have been hurried to the front, but their counter-attacks have been smashed by the allies' artillery. In the region of Neuville St. Vaast the fourth line of German trenches has been reached. The German communication with Carency, which has been invested by the allies on the three sides, is reported to be precarious.

In Flanders the Germans are furiously attacking the British fine without avail. The British troops are now provided with masks as a protection against the German gases. In an attack east of Ypres the Germans were almost annihilated when they advanced to attack after a cloud of gas bad passed over the British trenches.

There is little further news from the eastern theatre. The Austrian* claim that the Russians have been compelled to fall back east of the Wisloka, in West Galicia.