TURKISH PRISONERS CURSE GERMANS.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 13700, 2 June 1915, Page 3

TURKISH PRISONERS CURSE GERMANS.

ADMIT .LOSSES HAVE BEEN TREMENDOUS. ■

(Received June 2, 1:30 p.m.) . . LONDON, June 1: The Press Bureau states that prisoners who have arrived m Egypt declare that the Turkish losses m Galhpoli have been terribly hea-vy. The Twentieth Regiment was almost annihilated. All trie officers except the colonel were killed or captured. The Fifteenth and Fifty- | sixth Regiments' losses were almost as severe. The loss of officers generally is very heavy. The gaps have been filled up by naval officers and military cadets. The attack on Krithia was most costly for the Turks. Liman Pasha ordered ari attack at night with empty magazines, using^ the bayonet only. The Allies' flares and searchlights repeatedly caught them m close formation. Machine gun .and rifle \ lire at point blank' range punished then! terribly. A captured officer said only 120 could be collected out of a regiment one thousand strong. The Allies' mountain guns more than' one© caught the Turks assembling for attack, and kept them for minutes under shrapnel, inflicting heavy losses. An Arab officer said the landing was costly and difficult. When the Allies established themselves on the Peninsula it was our tura to suffer heavier losses or capture. A fortnight ago the Turkish losses were then at least forty tluraisand killed and wounded. . Other prisoners stated that two Turkish battalions attacked each other at Gaba Tepe, losing heavily, and ultimately stampeding. The British machine gui. fire was particularly well directed, and ;the naval guns most effective. The heaviest shells bursting m the trenches paralysed the men nearly. *. , • Some prisoners admit that it is vn T known m the East why Ehver Pasha Talaat Bey went to war. Others curse Germany heartily.