TURKS FUTILE ATTACKS.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 13699, 1 June 1915, Page 3

TURKS FUTILE ATTACKS.

THEIR LOSSES TWO THOUSAND. (Reoeired Juao 1. 9.45 a.m.) LONDON, May 3l The Press Bureau, reporting on the Dardanelles action, states : , "We de-' tected the enemy working under one of our piosta. On the 28th we successfully exploded a counter-mine. The Turks then effected a lodgment on the vacant trenches. We counter-attacked with the bayonet and recaptured the firing line trenches, whereupon , the Turks supporting the trenches surrendered. . Meanwhile heavy columns advanced m the bright • moonlight. Our- gunners' accurate crossfire demoralised the Turks, wliose second line of bomb-throwers tiung missiles into their own first line, completing the rout. The casualties were at least two- thousand and ours three hundred. The same night the Turks unsuccessfully attempted to recapture the position. . The French captured an important redoubt on the Turks' extreme right on the night <of the 28th and repulsed subsequent attacks. The High Commissioner reports: — LONDON. May 31, 4.50 p.m. At the Dardanelles on. Friday -we detected engineers of the enemy undermining the British, position. We exploded a counter mine very successfully. The same evening the Turks effected a lodgment m these vacant trenches. Our troops coinnter-aUocked with the bayonet, recapturing the firing, line and trendies, whereupon the Turks m support of the trenches surrendered. Heavy columns of the enemy advanced to make good a temporary local success. They wer« visible m the bright moonlight, and quir gunners were able to bring, a. cross-fire ik> bear at an accurate known range. In consequence the .Turkish advance became demoralised, and then the second, line of barob-tfrroYrerß, Hinging missies into their first lina, «•«• pleted the rout. The enemy's casualties totalled 2000; ours totalled 300.

Qn Satux'day night the Tud»» twio* attacked the n«w post won the night before, 11 but made do impression.