Second Edition. THE RUSSIAN SUCCESS AT STRYPA.

Wanganui Herald, Volume L, Issue 14700, 3 September 1915, Page 7

Second Edition. THE RUSSIAN SUCCESS AT STRYPA.

FRENCH OFFICIAL VIEW. RUSSIANS MASTERS OF CONDITION OF RETREAT. By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright. Received September 3, 2.15 p.m. PARIS, September 2. A communique hails the Russian success at Strypa, and adds; This victory shows that the Russian armies are masters of the conditions of their retreat, and continue capable of assuming the offensive whenever circumstances are favourable. HEAVY ARTILLERY STRUGGLE. FRENCH SILENCE GERMAN BATTERIES Received September 3, 2.15 p.m. PARIS, September 2. A particularly heavy artillery struuggle in Artois, in the Argonne, and in the Vosges continues. The French batteries have silenced the enemy.

GERMANS FEELING THE PINCH. CALLING UP THE PREVIOUSLY REJECTED. Received September 3, 2 p.m. BERNE. September 2. Twelve thousand Germans in Switzerland previously reported unfit for service lor physical reasons, have been recalled to Germany for service. Relatives are anxious as to the fate of earlier recruits. No casualties amongst Germans who went from Switzerland have been published since November. BRITAIN AND GREECE. COMMERCIAL AGREEMENT SIGNED. Received September S, 12.15 p.m. ATHENS, September 2. Greece and Britain have signed a commercial agreement fixing the total Ifwortau'ons and exportations between Greece and the Allies. ’ Greece undertakes to prevent traffic in contraband. and the Entente permits the free exportation of tobacco, raisins, and currants.and the importation of all goods exclusively reserved for local Greek consumption. A TURKISH VERSION. Received September 3. 12.30 p.m. AMSTERDAM, September 2. A communique from Constantinople states: —The enemy's left wing at Seddul Bahr, with a great waste of ammunition, unsuccessfully attempted to destroy our trenches. Our batteries on the Straits last Monday forced the mine-sweepers which approached the Dardanelles to retreat, and dispersed other mine-sweepers near Seddui Bahr, and successfully bombarded uie enemy’s infantry at Seddul Bahr.

MAORIS FIGHT EXCELLENTLY. THE LANDING AT SUVLA. RATTLE OF MUSKETRY CONTINUOUS. (By Captain Bean.) GABA TEPE, August 9. "Since Friday night the battle which started on the Australian right at Auzac with the magnificent capture of the Lonesome Pine trenches by our Ist Infantry Brigade has rolled away far to the north. The battle actually started with the bombardment of Achi Baba and tile attack at Holies about 4 o’clock on Friday afternoon. Then came the magnificent assault of the Ist Infantry Brigade on Lonesome Pine at 5.50 p.m. This was practically finished at 7.30 p.m. Our blow first began to be felt to the north. The Now Zealand Mounteds and the Maoris were moving out from the. extreme north of our line against strongly entrenched spurs opposite them. Some of these trenches were stubbornly held, but by 11 o’clock the troops had CLEARED MOST OF THEM WITH THE BAYONET .ALONE. The Maoris are said to have fought excellently. By this time the troops were already moving out along the seashore to extend the battle further north. As these reached certain points they turned inland anti plunged into dark, deep, narrow, foothill gullies. Each column had scouts working a little ahead of it. Every now and then these scouts came across -•■ mall bodies of the enemy, often fleeing from the attack of the mounteds earlier in the night or occupying a small outpost from which the Turks used to annoy us during the past months. Shots constantly rang out through the gullies ahead. These were almost all Turkish, as wo used the bayonet almost exclusively during the night. Further north of these columns except the British flanking outnost was the 4th Australian Infantry Brigade, next southwards were some Indian troops, and the southernmost position was occupied by the New Zealand Infantry, which turned not veryfar north of our position. CONCENTRATED BOMBARDMENT. "The narrowness of the valleys, where sometimes only one could walk at a time, and the contorted shape of the hills, made progress slow. When the moon rose in the small hours, the heads of the columns were in the hills, and tho tails were just clearing the fiats. Just at dawn, after one of the most concentrated bombardments ever seen here from ships' guns and laud guns, the Ist and 3rd Light Horae Brigade made a most gallant attack from an angle of our position against the Turks immediately north of our position in order to help the New Zealand Infantry to get a footing further north. Daybreak found tho 4th Australian Infantry Brigade digging in in the deep gullies between them and tho Indians. The Turks had managed to bring shrapnel on to the troops as they worked up the valleys. That was the position prac' tically all Saturday. LANDING AT SUYLA BAY. ‘‘Meantime, the battle had extended much further north still. In the early hours of Saturday morning—about eight hours after the battle first began to spread from the south—the British force made a fresh landing at Suvla Bay, about four miles north of Anzac. About 3 o’clock on Saturday morning, the sound of their rifles could bo heard from the north of our lines. All that dav the troops could lie seen landing. The Turkish shrapnel ws bursting over the beach and the low hills near it. By next morning, however, wo noticed the Turki-di shells bursting over tho hill on the plain to the northward, from which a battery of Turkish guns had for nearly four months played on Anzac. That was the position vesterday. Early this morning, after another bombardment lasting about an hour, all directed to the northwards, ancther fierce battle began, which, to judge by the firing, has continued fiercely ever since. The warships are firing constantly, and the rattle of musketry is absolutely continuous. ”