GALLIPOLI LANDING.

Taranaki Daily News, 8 September 1915, Page 3

GALLIPOLI LANDING.

»i WAS THERE A BETRAYAL? The correspondent of the Tribuna (Rome) writing from Cairo on June 10, gives what purports to be a revelation of the betrayal to Germany by a Greek high official of the plan of attack on the Dardanelles. The plan is said to have been communicated to Greece when it was expected that the kingdom would join the Allies and take part in the operations. Then.' has, says the correspondent, been no official disclosure of the betrayal, but it is known that when the Allied troops disembarked they were met by the Turks from both sides of the Dardanelles with vigorous resistance at the spots where the landings bud been arranged to take place, and with just sufficient resistance where the landings were merely a feint. These facts wcre'attcsted by Australian troops, who have returned to Alexandria, and who asserted also that Greece was responsible. It was easy to imagine the rage of impulsive and violent soldiers like the Australians when they learned of the plot. A Greek in Alexandria, if he met an Australian, was certain to receive a punch on the nose. Conflicts of the kind were continuous. In one roadway some Australians stretched out a huge Italian flag, and every Greek that passed was forced to go on his knees and kiss it. If any refused he was soon begging for mercy.