THE DARDANELLES

Otago Daily Times, Issue 16541, 15 November 1915, Page 5

THE DARDANELLES

GIFTS FOR SOLDIERS. EXTENSIVE THIEVING. SYDNEY, September 13. Captain Bean, cabling October 29, says that the chief incident in the slow trench warfare on Gallipoli is the enemy's spasmodic bombardments. Making suggestions in regard to sending gifts to soldiers, Captain Bean says : ''The amount of thieving before the articles reach the troops is phenomenal. Out of £9000 worth of goods for the canteen, £500 worth has 'melted' away before arrival. Out of £1000 worth of gifts- for the Australians, one-tenth was stolen.'' AUSTRALIAN CASUALTIES. . SYDNEY, November 13. The 103 th tad 109 th lists include the following New Zealanders :■ — WOUNDED—Private J. H. WILLENBROOK (in Helonian Hospital). ILL.—Lance-corporal R. W. DICK, Gunner W. H. TAYLOR (disembarked at Malta), Privates B. F. YOUNG and J. DAWE (embarked for England), C. W. , HAILWOOD (returned to duty), Sergeant F. G. LAWSON, (previously reported wounded). BRITISH SUBMARINE SUNK. OFFICERS AND CREW PRISONERS. LONDON, November 13. (Received November 14; at 3.30 p.m.) The Admiralty announces that Submarine E2O has not communicated since October 30, and it is feared that she has been sunk. An enemy's wireless message says that three officers and six of the crew are prisoners. MAJORITY OF CREW MISSING. LONDON, November 13. (Reeived Nov. 14, at 5.5 p.m.) Twenty-one o! the E2o's crew are missing. TURKISH OFFICIAL REPORT. REPORTED LOSS OF TORPEDO BOAT. AMSTERDAM, November 13. (Tieceived November 14, at 3.30 p.m.) A Turkish communique states : Thanks to new measures for the fleet's protection, E2O was sunk in the Dardanelles on the sth. An enemy torpedo boat ran ashore in the Gulf of Saros on the 10th and sank. We inflicted heavy losses on the enemy at Sedd-ul-Bahr, and erected entanglements before their left wing. ANOTHER GERMAN KITE. THREATENED COUP DE MAIN. ATTACK ON SUEZ CANAL. LAUSANNE, November 13. (Received November 14, at 3.30 p.m.) information from a trustworthy source states that the Germans are contemplating u coup de main to force a patched-up peace while they still, hold the advantage in the field'. It is likely to take the form of an attack upon the Suez Canal by means of a light railway across the desert, relying upon Britain's slowness to move. If the Canal were immediately entrenched the coup de main would prove a disastrous failure.