Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-05-01
REPORT ON OPERATIONS
AGAINST DARDANELLEs
Landing Of Allied Troops Successful,
Although Vigorously OPP
posed by Enemy.
CASUALTIES OF ARMY HEAVY
Arrangements Worked Out I'm Great
est Detail Between Fleet and Land
Forces-Fleet Casualties Confined
to Torpedo-Boat Destroyers.

iIcNl'oN. april 3O.-The British War
Office tonight made public this official
communication concerning operations
against the DarGLnelles:
| The Decentralization of the army in
the Darlanelles began before sunrise
| April 90. Six beaches were used, and
the operation was covered by the
| whole fleet
The landing was successful imme-
diately on five beaches. although 1t
! was opposed with vigor by n strongly
| lntrenched enemy In successive lines
! protected by barbed wire entanglc-
ments I'm some places fifty yards wide,
and supported by artillery
On the sixth beach, near Seddul
Bahr. the troops could no. advance
until evening. when n fine attack by
the British infantry from the direction
or Cape Tekeh relieved the pressure
on their front. The arrangements for
landing had been concerted in the
utmost detail between the fleet and
| army.
| The result of the first days opera-
tons was the establishment of strong
| forces of British. Australian and New
zealand forces at three points namely
the Australian and New Zealand troops
! on the lower slopes of Sari Bair. north
of Gaba Tcpe: of British troops ut
Cape Tekeh, at Cape Helles and near
Morto Bay and of French force on
the Asiatlc shore at Kun Kaleh, after
a gallant attack toward Yeni Shehr.
| During the afternoon of the 25th
strong enemy Commentaries began.
and hard fighting took place. Mean
while the decentralization of the army
proceeded
POSITION Is OCCUPIED
AFTER SEVERE FIGHT
at daybreak of tho Goth the enemy
was still holding the village and posi-
ton OF Seddul Bahr, which was a
labyrinth of caves. ruins, trenches
pits and entanElemcnts Aided by the
fleet. this position was stormcd by the
British in frontal attack through UNI
damaged wire entanglcments. Scddul
3ahr was taken about Il. NJ, four
-poms being captured The situa-
ton at this end OF the peninsula thus
was definitely secured and the dis
embarkation of French and British
forces proceeded.
I'm the morning of tho a7th, after
rcpulsing n Turkish attack upon their
left toward Cape Hclles, the allies adj
rnnced. and at p. NJ. were cstab-
lished in an intrenchcd line running
from point about two miles north of
APE ichch 10 small plateau above
Dc Tots battery. From this line an
advance since has been made TO the
neighborhood OF Krithia
! Meanwhile, tho Australia and New
Zealand troops at Sari Bair. who
pushed on with the utmost boldncss
after the landing on the 25th, had been
engaged almost constantly with the
enemy, who made strong repeated
counterattacks. which invariably were
rcpulsed. The Australian and New
Zealand troops fought with fine
spirit of determinatio.
| ON the morning of the 9th a fresh
1 Turkish division was launched against
Sahr Bair, preceded by a heavy artil-
icry hre y hot engagement followed
The enemy came on boldly time after
time, but the Australian and New Zca-
land troops defeated their every at
tempt. and by 8 p. NJ had resumed the
offensive.
The French troops at Kun Kahle
were four times strongly coun;erat-
tackled on the 26th. but retained all
their positions. Five hundred Turks. who
! in the course of one of these counter
attacks were cut off by the fire of the
fleet, were made prisoners
| The operation of tn. landing army
in the face of modern weapons, under
sea as we'll rs on the land and in spi,e
of wire acknowledgements and of land
mines and deep pits with spikes at
| their bottoms. thus has been accom-
plished
CASUALTIES IN ARMY
NECESSARILY HEAVY