Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-09-02
ENGLAND'S TROOPS GAIN
AN IMPORTANT POSITION
Capture Point Commanding Buvuk.
Anafarta Valley in Desperate
Hand-to-Hand Fight.
M0sLEM LOSSES HELD GREAT
Constantinople Also Declares to
Have inflicted Huge Casualties
on Foe During Battles Along
the Dardanelles.

LONDON, September 2, 2:35
p.m.-Four Turkish transports
have been torpedoed by British
submarines, according to official
announcement in Paris.
Further gains for the allied
forces on the Gallipoli peninsula
are chronicled in an official re-
port just received from Gen. Sir
Ian Hamilton. commander-in-
chief of the British forces operat-
ing against the Turks. The re-
port says:
Further fighting on the 27th
and 18th on the northern section
of the line has resulted in the cap
ture OF an important tactical point
commanding the Buvuk-Anafarta
valley to the east and north, and
an appreciable gain of the ground
occupied by the Australians and
New Zealand army corps.
"The fighting was almost en-
tirely hand-to-hand, and of
severe character. Very heavy
losses were inflicted on the Turks
and three of their machine guns,
three trench mortars, 800 rifles,
500 bomb; and a large quantity
OF small arms ammunition were
captured by us"
Paris Claims Successes.
The Paris official announcement says:
In the Dardanelles the last week Of
August has been calm throughout on
the southern front. In the northern
zone British troops delivered success
full attacks, which put them in posses
sion of a hi1iock to the west of BuvuE
Anafarta, which had been contested
keenly.
ITO the transport sunk the Goth of
August by one of our aviators in the
anchorage at Acbashiliman. 1t is nee
essary to add four transports tor
pedoed by British submarine: two OF
them at the same point and two others
between GallipoI and Niagara. The
guns of the battleships have hit sew
eral vessels anchored in the straits"
British Public Cheered.
The British public has been greatly
cheered by the version of the recent
heavy fighting at the Dardanelles con-
tanned in the official report received
from Gen. Sir Ian Hamilton. This re-
port has been awaited eagerly. in view
of the assertions OF Constantinople
that the allies had been repulsed with
heavy losses.
Anafarta their guns should have a clear
field to fire upon one of the main Tur-
kish supply roads leading toward Achi
Baba The Turks, however, have an al
ternativce line of communication with
this part of their front. Constantinople
has admitted no advance on the part
of the allies.
Huge Losses for British.
TURKISH HEADQUARTERS ON
THE GALLIPOLI PENINSULA, August
-. via Berlin and wireless to Tucker
town. y. j.. September 1T has been
impossible to ascertain the total losses
of the British in the Anafarta region.
in the fighting which followed the
landing of fresh expeditionary force
August and I. The losses in dead on
the whole Gallipoli front which the
allies sustained as result of the gen
eral offensive movement coincident
witt. the Anafarta landing exceed
10000 men. Most of the bodies are
still unburied. One battalion was an
Oficers at the Turkish headquarters.
are of the opinion that the British have
two weeks nearly all the troops landed
August 6 and Z. The Turkish losses
are not light, but they do not approach
those of the British. The ground thus
far occupied by the British is OF little
military value if an attack on the Dar-
danelles forts is their objective.
British Forces Show Strain.
The Associated Press correspondent
saw a score of British prisoners. The
faces Of the men showed the strain
under which they had been. They COM
planned of the quality and quantity ot
the food which they had received. They
said they had only meat. preserves AMI
biscuits. The water supply was poor
and insufficient and the sanitary serv-
ice was overtaxed by the numbers of
the wounded. SO that many sick SOL
diers were unattended. Some Of them,
the prisoners said, were abandoned and
fell into the hands of the Turks
From the stories Of the prisoners it
would appear that the great heat and
the lack of sufficient food and good wa
ter is having depressing effect on the
British forces on the peninsula"
London Message Censored.
The foregoing is a portion of a dis.
patch written August % by the Asso-
ciated Press correspondent with the
Turkish army at the Dardanelles.
Owing to the uncertainty of transmits
sion and the action Of various censors
whose hands the dispatch
would pass before reaching the United
States. the correspondent rokted one