The accounts from the Dardanelles are distinctly encour. aging. On
Tuesday the British portion of the Expeditionary Force landed on the point of the Gallipoli Peninsula—i.e., on the European side—while the French landed an the Asian side, and have fought a battle on the plain of Troy or its neighbourhood, in which they have taken nearly two thousand prisoners. Our landing on and around the tip of the Gallipoli Peninsula has been supplemented by a landing near Bulair, the narrowest part of the tongue of land which forms the European wall of the Dardanelles. If this landing at Bulair can he made good, we ought to be able to destroy the whole of the Turkish force which lies between it and the tip of the Peninsula. How many Turka there are in this region it would be difficult to say, but it has been reported that they number sixty thousand.
Previous page
