The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-01-07

 fort of the enemy was spent. Soon their shattered remnants began to trickle pack leaving a track of corpses behind them. By night, except for prisoners or wounded, no live Turk was left upon our side. of the slope"
 Two lesser attacks were made by the Turks the same day. General Hamilton continues:
 By evening the total casualties of General Birdwoods force had reached 12,O00 and included very large propor- tion of officers The Thirteenth divis- ion of the new army under Major Gen eral Shaw had alone lost 5000 out of a grand total of 10,500. Brigadier General Baldwin was gone and all his staff men and commanding officers 13, had dis appeared from the fighting lines The Warwick and Worcesters had lost lit- erally every single officer. The old German notion that no unit could stand the loss of more than 25 per cent has been completely falsified The Thirteenth division and the Twen- tyninth brigade of the Tenth Irish di V1slon had lost more than twice that and in spirit were game for as much more hght1ng as might be required"
 IMPORTANT POINTS LOST
 The British had held all they gained except two important salients. one q
 
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 unfortunately" says General Hamil- ton, these two pieces of ground small and worthless as they seemed, were worth, according to the ethics of war. 10,0O0 lives, for their loss or retention they just marked the differences be- tween an important success and signal victory. The grand coup had not come oH; the Narrows were out of sight and beyond held gun range, but this was not the fault of General Birdwood or any of the officers or men under his com mand"
 The first operations in the Anzac zone appeared to have been carried out with comparative success. The SuvIa pay expedition which has been the sub ]ect of the greatest criticism, suffered various misfortunes Elaborate plans were worked out by the army staff with Vice Admiral De Robeck.
 During the night of the 11th a divis- ron consisting of the Thirty second and Ih1rty-fourth brigades were brought from Imbros to Culva. Three brigades with three batteries were landed in the darkness The Turks were completely surprised.
 COMPLIMENTS NAVY
 The division made good it's position ashofe. Most of the supporting force, con- slstlng of the Irish Tenth division, were brought from Mytilene. General Hamil- ton compliments highly the navy for land ing the first of them at dawn from a distance of 12O miles, at the psychological moment when they were most needed.
 But the navy was unwilling to land six battalions where the corps commander considered they could act most effective ly. The cause of the navy's action, Gen. eral Hamilton says, was for some reason not specified, but it resulted in delay. The men were obliged to march a con- siderable distance under fire and arrived fatigued.
 General Hamilton lays stress on the fact that a large proportion of the troops were new men.
 "On the morning of the Sth' says the report, General Stopford, recollecting the vast issues which hung upon his success inforestalling the enemy urged his divi- sional commanders to push on; otherwise all the advantages of the surprise land ing must be nullifed But the divisional commanders believed themselves to be unable to move"
 The weather was hot The new troops suffered much from want of water. There was disorganization, inevitable after a night landing, followed by fights here and country unknown.
 PLEADS FOR DELAY
 '"rhese pleas for delay says General Hamilton, were perfectly well founded. But it seems to have been overlooked that the half defeated Turks in front of us were equally exhausted and disor- ganized and that an advance was the simplest and swiftest method of solving the water trouble and every other sort of trouble.
 Be this as it may the objections over bore the corps commanders resolution. But it was lack of artillery support which finally decided him to acquiesce in the policy of going slow which by the time it reached the troops became translated into a period of inacton. The divisional generals were informed that in view Of the inadequate artillery support General Stopford did not wish them to make frontal attacks on entrenched positions but desired to try to turn any trenches which were met with. Within the terms of this instruction lies the root of our failure to make use of the priceless day. light hours of the Sth of August.
 General Hamilton explains that artil- lery could not be disembarked before, on account of the necessity of disem- 10 WY