The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1916-01-13
BRITISH ABANDON
COSTLY STRUGGLE
TO WIN GALu|POu
London Reports Loss of 0nIa
One Man, But Turks Claim
to Have Sunk Fleeing
Transport.
ENDS DISASTROUS EFF0M
Turks Definitely Conceded Vic.
tory on Peninsu1a-AHies
Lost More Than $4,000
Men, Reports Shew.

London. Jan. 1.-The last of ths
British troops have beer withdrawa
from Gallipoli, the army oecupyina
Seddul Bahr, on the til of Che PENN.
sula. having been taken aboard trans.
ports last week. according to AN of.
ficial announcement
Although General Monro report the
troops were withdrawn with loss of but
one man and II cannon, which were
destroyed, he Turks report tina one
of the allies transports, f1Hed with
troops, was sunk. This information is
conveyed from several sources. The
French suffered no loss.
me move was not unexpected,
since the British were eeentN with
drawn from the Suvla bay and Amaze
regions. and left no strategis advan-
tage in holding the tip OF the penin-
sula.
Thus ends the greatest disaster any
nation has suffered in the war.
Praise Bravery Of Troops.
The London morning papers com
ment with satisfaction and relief on
the successful withdrawal of troops
from Gallipoli. They consoles, despite
General Monro's generous tribute to
Generals Birdwood and Davies, that
credit for the remarkable double re-
eme should be attributed to Cen
eral Monro himself. The Pan.es saws
editorially:
Twice within a few weeks, General
Monro has managed to emove his
men and guns under the eyes of the
turks and their German officers. We
DOUBT II a precedent for such an
achievement can be found In she an
mails of war.
The extraordinary freedom from
casualties at Helles is expIafnable to
some extent by the fact that, unlike
Anzac and Suvla, it gave MS one
peach sheltered from the eneny's fire.
But neither operation would have been
possible with any but the bofdest ana
~steadlest troops. The government may
pc congratulated on the prompt de-
clslon of the complete evacuation of
the peninsula"
With the withdrawal of the British
ana French forces from the southern
UP OF the Gallipoli peninsula after the
of the Anzac cove and Suv-
Ia bay positions upon the western
coast In the middle of December, there
has come to an end a movement that
was begun with expectations that it
would have a great bearing in outcome
of the war.
Costly to the Allies.
thousands upon thousands OF men
lost their lives in effecting landings ON
the Turkish coast and in the fighting
since. In addition a number of battle
SHIPS and smaller wal craft Of the en-
tente allies lave been sunk er dam
aged.
The chief military purpose Of the
Dardanelles campaign, which was be-
gun IN FEBRUARY. 1915, with the bonn
bardment Of Turkish forts at the, en-
trance to the straits, was the capture
or Constantinople and the opening OF
the Bosphorus which connects the
Mediterranean with the Black sea, SO
that Russians might have an avenue
for the receipt of arms and ammunition
and also for h expectation Of Russian
grain. For England success meant the
prevention Of another Turkish Eavasios
of Egypt and the permanent safety of
the Suez canal and Englands
ications with India.
In October after the successful in
vasion Of Serbia by the Teetens and
the Bulgars, and h reports that Ger
man ammunition was on it's way to
Turkey q storm Of bitter criticism of
the governments Dardanelles cam
paign broke loose in England. Sir Ed
ward Carson, attorney general re-
signed from he cabinet because of a
disagreement ver the campaign, it
was said, and Winston Churchill. first
lord Of the admiralty, the principal
target of attack also resigned. There
also was a complete reorganization OF
the French cabinet which was general
ly attributed to the Balkan situation.
Blunder After BIunder.
IT, sending of the fleet to force the
Da! %anelles. without the cooperation
of the land forces was generally con-
coded the big initial blunder of the
campaign. The i~nadequacy of the land
forces when they were sent, was criti-
cized as another.
The campaign was marked by three
major operations, one by the fleet
alone, and two by the and forces, as
sisted by the fleet. The net result was
peninsula for a distance of three miles
and a narrow segment of it's middle
western coast, about 10 miles in length
and hardly a mile deep.
The first disaster came March 19
when mines blew up the French battle
ship Bouvet and the British battieships,
Irresistible n Ocean. while they Were
attempting a lash for the NarrowS.
the Qualifications OF which they haze
been bombarding for several weeks.
at the same time and the fleet with
drew to the Aegean sea. On the same
aay, 1t was announced that Admiral
Garden. the British commander, haG
been replaced ~ Admiral De Robeck
The admiral continued the lombard
ment with an occasional dash into the
straits by the ships until April.
Land Attacks Futile.
Naval forces We're landed, March -
at Seddui Bahr. the tip of the PENN
sula. but they were not strong enough
70 hold their positions, though they de-
fled the Qualifications
A troop landing came April 26. but,
meantime. h British battleship Fri
umph a been sunk and the subna-
rine ELS went aground and fell victim
to Turkish fire.
The first contingent of British troops.
under the command of Gen. Sir Ian
Hamilton, relatively small in numbers.
landed at Seddul Bahr. April %. but
not without heavy losses. French troops
landed on the Asiatic side, but they
stayed there only three days. The
French subsequently formed the left
wing of the British on Seddui Bahr.
THREE ARE KILLED.
Arthur. Ont, Jan. 10.-Two engi-