Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-04-29
ALLIES AND TURKS
BOTH CLAIM GAINS
IN HARD FIGHTING
Serious Losses for Ottomans
in Days Battle Along
SuvIa Bay Reported.
INVADERS HARD HIT,
C0NSTANTINOPLE SAYS
5000 French and British Driven
Into Sea and $4,000 Captured,
Moslems Hear.
TRANSPORT REPORTED SUNK
London Says Foes Official Claims of
Great Victories Are Being
Framed to Favorably In
fuence Italy.

LONDON. April eo.-The
fighting at the tip of the Gallipoli
peninsula, across which the Brit
ish have strung their forces. and
the efforts to dislodge the Ger
mans from Steenstraate, the only
point on the west bank OF the
User which the invaders have
been able to hold since the recent
rush in Flanders, may be isolated
TODAY. as the areas which. al
though comparatively small, hold
the greatest possibilities for far
reaching results.
In a dispatch from Athens the
correspondent of the Exchange
Telegraph Company says that
fierce fighting throughout We'd
nesday on the shores of Suvla
bay. on the western side OF the
Gal1ipoli peninsula. eighteen miles
north Of the southern extremity,
resulted in the success of the
allies.
THE losses of the Turks were
serious. One entire battalion was
captured by the allies
Steady Advance Claimed.
Official statements regarding tn.
fighting which is going on over a large
section in the Gallipoli peninsula still
ere very much contradictory as to sue
cesses gained. According to the British
war Office the allied troops have sue
ceeded in establishing themselves
across the end of the peninsula from
q point northeast Of Eski Hisarlik to
the mouth of the stream on the oppo-
site side. They have also beaten off
attacks at Sari Bair and are steadily
advancing.
That the allied forces have been
forced back along the entire front in
the fighting near Kaba Tepeh is the
claim advanced officially in Constanti-
noDie. The allies attempted to MAIN
tain thsir positions under cover of fire
from ships, but the TURKS they claim,
ad-anced ard inflicted heavy losses. 1t
Is said tina: part of the enemy fed to-
ward the sea and took to their boats
Others surrendered in masses, it is de-
clared
That transport Of the enemy was
sunk off Avi Burun is also claimed by
the Turks. Repulse and retreat of the
foe who yesterday attacked at Kun
kaleh also is reported.
HALL Bey. former president of the
Turkish parliament, who is now in Ber-
lin. received a telegram from Constan-
tinople last night stating that 5000
French and British soldiers had been
driven To the sea and that 12,oG0 had
been captured by the Turks as a result
OF the attempt of the allies to land
forces to attack the Dardanelles forth
hcations.
Advices from Constantinople are that
the forces which the French and Brit
g.. landed at the Dardanelles number
about $4,000 men.
Surrender Reported.
Another dispatch from Constantinople
gays:
a, the celebration Of the sultan.s
Jubilee the minister Of war announced tho
receipt Of telegram from the COM
nnander Of the 5th Army Corps, Gen.
Liman Won Sanders Pasha, stating that
the center and right wing Of the enemy
had been completely defeated and that
there WAS hope that the left wing was
also beaten" Another Turkish dtspatch
said the whole left wing had surrendered
Turk Reports Questioned
Although the Turks and the Germans
maintain that the British on the wes,
and the French on the east side of the
Dardanellss are being crushed in their
attempts to press forward, newspaper
readers In London are being told that
all official statements from CONSTANT
nople and Berlin bearing on the Dar-
danelles struggle are being not only
censored but framed with the especial /
on Italy and other wavering neutrals
Allied Forces Landed.
The following dispatch has been re-
ceived by the Exchange Telegraph
Company:
The British force landed on the Eu-
ropean coast Of the Dardanelles has
been intrusted solely with the mission
Of occupying the GaiipoH peninsula,
which is defended by $4,000 Turks.
The French force has been landed
entirely on the Asiatic coast. with the
object Of advancing along the lttoral
TO keep pace with the progress made
by tho British on the opposite coast
The bombardment of the straits was
resumed Tuesday and lasted twelve
hours 1t was directed particularly at
the kilid Bahr forts"