The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1916-01-13
BRITISH AND FRENCH, AS RE.
suit OF VIOLENT BATTLE
EVAcUATE sEDDUL eAHR,
SAYS DISPATCH.
C0NSTANTIN0PLE REPORTS
ENEMY VESSEL DESTROYED
All Positions Held by Entente Troops
on Peninsula Abandoned With
Wounding of Only One Man,
According to British Of
fetal Statement.

Amsterdam, via London, Jan. IT,
The British and French, as a result of
a violent battle have completely eva
uated Seddu! sahr, with great losses,
says a dispatch from Corstantinopie,
and that Ga!IipoIi peninsula "is now
clear Of the enemy"
London, Jan. -11.-A semi-officiaI re-
port from ConstantinopIe, according to
an Amsterdam dispatch to Reuters
Telegram company claims "the cap
ture by the Turks of a great enemy
camp and nine guns and the sinking
of an enemy vessel with troops near
Seddui Bahr."
London, Jan. 11.-All the positions
held by the Allies on the Gallipoli
peninsula have been abandoned with
the %wOunding of only one man among
the British and French, according to
a British official statement.
This news has been expected for
several days by the keen observers OF
the near Eastern campaign, for the
retirement of the troops from Amaze
and Suvla Bay three weeks ago, left
no strategic advantage TO the retention
of the tip of the peninsula.
Final Act of Tragedy.
Nevertheless the news will be re-
ceived with a pang of regret by the
people of the British Isles as well as
the colonies.
Renewed activity of various kinds
noted by the Turkish official communi-
cations in the past few days has pre-
sumably been in the nature Of prep
arations for the final act of the OAR
danelles tragedy. The Turkish OIL
cial statement covering the period
from Thursday to Saturday records in
creasing effectiveness of the rein
forcements sent and of the Turkish
batteries which have been drawing in
and concentrating on the Allies re-
naming positions.
With the withdrawal of the British
and French forces from the southern
tip of the Gallipoli peninsula after the
evacuation Of the Anzac cove and Suv-
Ia bay positions on the western coast
in the middle Of December, there has
come to an end a movement that was
begun with expectations of achieve
ments which would have a great bear
ing upon the outcome of the war.
Thousands Lost Lives.
Thousands upon thousands Of men
lost their lives in the effecting of land
ings on the Turkish coast and in the
fighting that has been in progress
since.
In addition a number Of battleships
and smaller war craft OF the Allies
have been sunk or damaged as they
poured a rain Of shell against the
Turkish Notifications in an endoayor
to aid their own forces on shore.
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 to the straits by Allied war
ships, was the capture of Constantin-
ople 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 expectation of Russian grain. For
England, success meant the prevention
of another Turkish invasion of Egypt,
and the permanent safety of the Suez
canal and English communications
with India.