In Gallipoli miracle has followed upon miracle. It might have
been thought that the Turks, having suffered the great humiliation of allowing their enemy to slip away unobserved from Suvla, would not let the same thing happen at Helles ; yet Sir Charles Monro reports that the remaining troops in the peninsula have been withdrawn without the loss of a single life. One man was wounded in the British force and none in the French force. All the guns and howitzers were removed with the exception of seventeen worn-out guns which were destroyed. On the day of the retirement the Turks attempted an attack, but the Staffordshires completely repulsed it and killed many of the enemy. Our casualties were five officers and one hundred and thirty men killed and wounded. When darkness came the withdrawal began in spite of a storm which made it impossible to use some points of embarkation. The Turks did not discover the move and begin shelling the beach till it was too late.
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