The most important news of the week is undoubtedly that
which comes from the Dardanelles. Unfortunately, however, it is, as we write on Thursday afternoon, of .so fragmentary and ambiguous a character that it is impossible to state with anything like clearness what has really happened. All that we know for certain is contained in a communication which appeared in the newspapers of Thursday morning. It is to the effect that the latest reports from Sir Ian Hamilton state that severe fighting took place in the Gallipoli Peninsula on Wednesday, August 11th, mainly in the Anzac zone—i.e., the zone held by the Australian and New Zealand forces—and in the north, presumably at the new landing-place. The communiqué goes on to state that the positions occupied have been greatly varied in places, but that the general result is that the area held In Anzac has been nearly trebled, "owing chiefly to the gallantry and dash of the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps." The communique' also notices that the enemy losses have been very heavy, and that the French battleship 'St. Louis' put out of action five out of six guns in the Asiatic batteries.
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