14 AUGUST 1915, Page 2

In this connexion we may note the curious fact that

the name of the landing-place in. the north was strictly withheld from the British official communication, though, as we have shown, allowed to leak out in the Turkish telegram. Apparently the authorities did not think the Germans and Turks would be aivare that they had lost ground unless reminded of the fact by the British Press, and wished to keep from our enemies so important a fact. It used to be our boast that the British did not know when they were beaten, but why try to transfer that praise to our enemies P