OFFICIAL REPORT ON FENINSULA OPERATIONS.

Colonist, Volume LVII, Issue 13783, 2 June 1915, Page 5

OFFICIAL REPORT ON FENINSULA OPERATIONS.

A SURPRISE FOR THE TURKS

NIGHT ATTACK DEMORALISED

ENEMY'S ROUT COMPLETED BY THEIR OWN BOMB-THROWERS.

London, May 31..

The Press Bureau, reporting'on the Dardanelles action, states that we detected the enemy working under one of our posts and on the 28th we successfully exploded a counter-mine.

The Turks then effected a lodgment in vacant trenches. Wo counter-attack-ed with the bayonet and recaptured the firing line trenches, whereupon the Turks in the supporting trenches surrendered.

Meanwhile heavy columns advanced in bright moonlight/ Our gunners' accurate crossfire caused the demoralisation of the Turks, whose, second line of bomb-throwers flung missiles into their own first line, completing the rout.

The enemy's casualties were at least two thousand and ours three hundred.

On the same night the Turks unsuccessfully attempted to re-capture the

position

The French captured an" important redoubt on the Turks' extreme right on the night of the 28th and repulsed subsequent ■ attacks.

The Central News correspondent at Athens reports that the Allies continue to advance against the main positions in Gallipoli, aided by the fleet.