ZEPPELIN RAID ON SUFFOLK TOWNS.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 144669, 1 May 1915, Page 3

ZEPPELIN RAID ON SUFFOLK TOWNS.

BOMBARDMENT OF DARDANELLES FORTS. There is still no news about (he New Zealand force at the Dardanelles. The Governor stated clearly in Auckland that he has no information about our men that has not been published and strongly condemned those who go about spreading rumours as (o ■ casualties. Silence as to the operations will be preserved until they .' axe definitely successful, so that no surprise need be caused if little " isknown for a week or two. In the meantime no credence should jie given to any but official reports. The fuller details now supI plied of the battle north of Tpres show that the Germans gained i 1 some ground owing to the surprise caused by their use of chlorine, I but that the big dent they made in the allied line has been almost (■ removed. Further reports of the stand made hy the Canadians on!y«v i add to the glory they gained. The report of the Dardanelles by a ( Daily Chronicle correspondent is mostly a word,picture. It deiiuyitely tells us that the British battery landed at Capo Helles was ■ compelled to retire, but the warships managed to save it by get--1 ting the range of the Turkish artillery. The, donkey ruse appears ;to belong to this part of the landing operations. The French force ! which was put ashore on the Asiatic coast succeeded in capturing ; 8000 Turks. By Monday night the British had gained a footing j near Cape Helles, and a War Office message yesterday said that | 'they had spread right across the peninsula from Eski Hissarlik were advancing. The peninsula up to the Narrows is nowhere '('more than seven miles _wide, but from the experience gained in (■'Belgium it can be gathered that an advance of ten miles on such i-jat front may prove by no means an easy task. The Zeppelin raid v on—Suffolk seems to have effected little and may possibly have been ;’of--±he nature of a trial trip.