The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-12-21
Forces Have Been Taken From Two Points Along
 GaIlipoli Peninsula With
 out Knowledge of Turks
ENGLISH PUBLIC IS
 RELIEVED AT NEWS
 OF SAFETY OF MEN
End of Enterprise Marks an Epoch in European War-Campaign Proved Signal Failure

London, December 2O.-Operations in
 other sectors of the front on the Gallipoli
 peninsula than those from which troops
 were announced today to have been withdrawn are to be continued, it is inti- mated in an official statement issued to- night The withdrawal was effected without knowledge of the movement on the part of the Turks, it is declared. The withdrawal of the British troops from Suvla bay and the Anzac zone ends more successfully than most military men thought possible, the most unfortu- nate chapter of the British arms in this war. Thousands of lives were sacrificed in gaining these positions and other thou sands in holding them.
 The question has been constantly dis cussed why the generals commanding the iDardanelles expedition did not try to make landing near the center of the peninsula in the beginning and cut off 1.-the Turkish troops on the lower end When the attempt was finally made to secure foothold higher up the peninsula, Fthe Turks were fully prepared to meet it. MOreOVer the brltiSu dIAduSShfChlo Hacked several essential features, particu- llarly supply of drinking water. The |story has been revealed by soldiers and Correspondents returning from the Medi- Eterranean only gradually and by detail. |One eyewitness declared that after the lfirst battalion landed the men were shot Edown so quickly that the watchers aboard |jthe ships were asking, why don't our Hmen advance? and thought the troops |Mere lying down awaiting orders. HARDSHIPS
 X The soldiers found barbed wire en- |kanglements stretching clear out under |hhe water when they jumped from their Rsmal boats. To add to their sufferings |khe supply of drinking water was very |short.
 \ Robert Blatchford, the author, in a Newspaper article yesterday asserted: \ Many of these men died of thirst. There Twas no ice for the wounded. There was [)ao place ashore, except in dugouts under Rhe hill sides where the men were ever tsafe from the enemy's shell fire, night Nor day Numbers were sent to Malta and EtEngland suffering from dysentery or
 nervous collapse"
 John Redmond, the Irish nationalist eader, said in a speech in the House of Ecommons that the sufferings of the Irish Eroops on Gallipoli were the worst known In the present war
 \ An official announcement was made re- E.ently that the general responsibility for The Suvla bay operations had been re- I'noved from his command, but his iden- Fity is not yet known to the British pub Vic General Sir Charles C. Monro re- 5borted in favor of withdrawing the troops Evhen he took command at the Darda- N elles, but the popular belief, shared by Military men here, was that thousands of Ho1diers could not be taken aboard trans xokts and effect complete withdrawal From their. trenches without calamatous Loss of life. The achievement must have Eeen a difficult one and the country is Believed that it has been done without @isaster.
 LONDON RECEIVES NEWS
 The announcement of the British with
 rawal from Gallipoli overshadowed all
 ther war news tonight. For the British
 tublic the abrupt war office statement Iharks the end of one of the great chap
 Hers of the wars history
 The shock of the news was hardly
 broken by the fact that rumors had been
 urrent in the street for some days and
 {he withdrawal of the forces had been a Iinatter of widespread pro and con discus
 lion ever since Lord Ribblesdales famous
 beech in parliament in which he declared That withdraw had been recommended
 sy high military authority.
 I The feeling of the man i'll the street Esas generally one of relief mixed with
 egret. A popular half penny paper sums
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