Arizona republican., 1916-01-10
Sir Charles Monro Reports British and French Troops Withdrawn From Penin- sula With But One Man Wounded
 MUCH WAS EXPECTED OF THE CAMPAIGN Thousands Upon Thousands of Men Lost Their Lives In Effecting Landing on Turkish Coast and ill Sub sequent Fighting
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LONDON, Jan. 9.-It is officially announced that the complete evacua- tion of the Gallipoli peninsula has been successfully carried out
 General Sir Charles Monro reports that only one British soldier was wounded in the evacuation and that there were no casualties among the French; that all the guns were saved, except seventeen worn out ones, which were blown up.
 The official communication issued this evening says:
 General Sir Charles Monro reports the complete evacuation of Gallipoli has been successfully carried out.
 "All the guns and Howitzers were got away with the exception of sev- enteen worn out guns which were blown up before leaving.
 "Our casualties amounted to one member of the British rank and file wounded.
 "There were no casualties among the French.
 General Monro states that the ac- complishment of this difficult task was due to Generals Birdwood and Davis, and invaluable assistance rem dered in an operation of the highest difficulty by Admiral De Robeck and the Royal Navy"
 With the withdrawal of the British and French forces from the southern tip of the Gallpoli peninsula, after the evacuation of the Anzac cove and Suvla bay position on the western
 
 there has come to an end a movement that was begun with expectations that it would have a great bearing on the outcome of the war.
 Thousands upon thousands of men lost their lives in effecting landings on the Turkish coast and in the fight ing since. In addition, a number of battleships and smaller war craft of the entente allies have been sunk or damaged.
 The chief military purpose of the Dardanelles campaign which was be- gun in February, 1915, with the bom- bardment Of Turkish forts at the en- trance of the straits, was the capture of Constatinople and the opening of the Bosphorus, which connects the Mediterranean with the Black sea, so that Russia might have an avenue for ! the receipt of arms and ammunition and also for the exportation of Rus sian grain For England, success meant the prevention of another Turkish invasion of Egypt and the permanent safety of the Suez cana and England's communications with India
 In October, after the successful in- vasion of Servia by the Teutons, the Bugars, and the reports that German ammunition was on it's way to Turkey a storm of bitter criticism of the gov ernment's Dardanelles campaign broke loose in England Sir Edward Carson, attorney general, resigned from the cabinet because of dis agreement over the campaign, it wa. said, and Winston Churchill, first lor( of the admiralty, the principal targe of attack, also resigned. There als, was complete reorganization of tn, French cabinet which was generally attributed to the Balkan situation
 The sending of the fleet to force tn Dardanelles without the cooperation of land forces was generally considere, to have been the big initial blunder O the campaign. The inadequacy of tn land forces when they were sent Wa criticised as another.
 The campaicn was marked by thre major operations, one by the flee alone and two by the land forces as sisted by the fleet. The net result wa the conquest of the tip of the Gallipol peninsula for distance of three mile and a narrow segment of it's middl western coast about twelve miles length and hardly mile deep.
 Naval forces were landed March at Seddul- Bahr. the tip of the penir sula, but they were not strong enoug
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