Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-07-01
AngIo-French Forces Reported
on Eve of Supreme Effort
to Take Hill.
DOMINATES COUNTRY
SOUTH OF DARDANELLES
British Capture Many Trenches, But
Admit Turks May Have Ex-
acted Heavy Toll.

| forces on the Galllpoil peninsula are
said to be on the point of making a
supreme effort to capture the massive
hill of Achi Baba, which dominates all
the country south Of the narrows of
the Dardanelles.
| The recent gains claimed by the Brit
ish and French on the southern end OF
the peninsula are considered important,
because they indicate an approach TO
the hill on three sides.
From the British standpoint the &C
count of the operations in the OAR
| danelles sent by Gen. Ian Hamilton,
| in which he declares that many Turk
ish trenches have been taken and heavy
losses inflicted on the foe. is especially
welcome, as showing that the British,
with the aid of the French, are able to
drive the Turks from their well defend
ed trenches if the advantage to be
gained outweighs the inevitable losses
| What the British losses were is not
| stated, but all these assaults against
the German-led Turks have been cost
", and England is prepared to race
heavy casualties there. even in COM
paratively isolated attacks.
Operations Reviewed.
The full text of the British official
statement regarding the operations OF
the Anglo-French forces against the
Dardanelles follows:
Gen. Sir Ian Hamilton reports that
| the plan of operations on June 70 was
to throw forward the left OF his line
| southeast of Krithia, pivoting on
point about one mile from the sea and
| after advancing on the extreme left
| for about half a mile establish new
line facing east on the ground thus
| gained.
This plan entailed the capture in
| succession Of two lines of Turkish
trenches to the east of Saghir Dere and
five lines of trenches to the west
Valuable Aid From French.
An Australian corps was ordered to
cooperate by making vigorous dem
onstration The action followed at 9
| o'clock with a bombardment by heavy
artillery The assistance rendered by
the French in this bombar dment was
most valuable.
AT 1920 o'clock the field artillery
! opened fire to cut the wire in front of
| the Turkish trenches. This was ef-
| fectively done and it's effects on one OF
the enemy's trenches near the sea was
great Very accurate fire of the cruiser
Talbot and the destroyers Scorpion and
Wolverine succeeded in keeping down
his artillery fire from that quarter.
Turkish Work Assaulted.
| AT 10:45 am. small Turkish ad-
vanced work in Saghir Dere known as
the boomerang redoubt' was assault
| ed This little fort, which was very
strongly sited and protected by extra
strong wire entanglements. had long
| been a source of trouble.
After a special bomba rdment by a
French mortar and while the bonn
bardment of the surrounding trenches
was at it's height part of the border
regiment at the exact moment pre-
one man like a pack of hounds pour,
ing out of cover and raced across and
took the work most brilliantly.
The artillery bombardment increased
range was heightened. The infantry
then advanced and an infantry attack
was carried out with great dash along
the whole line.
| Three Lines. Captured.
West OF Saghir Dere three lines of
trenches were captured with little OPP
position The trenches were full Of
dead Turks Many had been buried
by the bombardment. One hundred
prisoners were taken.
| East of the ravine the Royal Scots
made a fine attack. capturing two lines
of trenches which had been assigned
as their objective, but the remainder of
the brigade on their right met with
severe opposition and was unable TO
get forward.
AT 1870 O'Clock the Royal Fusiliers
led its brigade in the second phase OF
the attack to the west of the ravine.
The brigade advanced with great
tsteadiness and resolution through the
trenches already captured and on
across the open, taking two more lines
of trenches and reached the objective
lall ftAI he n hi EIYa r @
inclining half to the right and form
ing a line to connect with our new
positions east of the ravine.
/ Gain of 1000 Yards Made.
The northernmost objective had now
\ been obtained. but the Gurkhas. press
\ ing on under the cliffs. captured an i'm
\ portant knoll still further forward
actually due west of Krithia. This they
\ fortified and held during the night.
making our total gain on the left pre-
cisely 1000 yards.
During the afternoon the trenches,
a small portion of which remained un-
h captured, on the right were attacked,
but the enemy held on stubbornly, sup
ported by machine guns and artillery,
and the attacks did not succeed
During the night the enemy made a
counter attack on the furthest trenches
gained. but was repulsed with heavy
loss. A party of Turks who penetrated
| from the flank between the two lines
of captured trenches was subjected to
much gunfire at daybreak and suffered
/ very heavily, and the survivors surren-
dered
Line Pushed Forward
Except for small portion of
trenches already mentioned. which still
is held by the enemy. all and more
than was hoped for from the operations
/ has been gained On the extreme left
the line has been pushed forward to a
specially strong point well beyond the
limit of the advance originally con-
| templa ted.
"All engaged did we'll, but certainly
I the chief factor in the success was the
!, splendid attack carried out by the 18th
| Division, whose conduct on this. on
: previous occa sions was beyond praise. -
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