We have dealt elsewhere with the splendid story of the
heroism of our troops—British, Australian, New Zealand, and Indian—at the Dardanelles. Here we must add the welcome news that Thursday's papers contain a report from Sir Ian Hamilton which tells how on the night of July 3rd-4th the enemy at 4 a.m. began a heavy bombardment of our trenches—the heaviest be has yet made—and followed it at 6 o'clock by a general attack. His principal effort was directed against the junction of the Royal Naval Division and the French. Here the Turks momentarily broke through, but we counter-attacked immediately and hurled them out of the trenches again. The attack on " the 20th Division section of the line" was, we are
told, praetical]y wiped out by rifle and machine-gun fire. The attack died away in the course of the morning. Sir Ian Hamilton statee,*at the result was complete failure for the Turks. While our losses were negligible and no impression was made on our line, the enemy added a large number to his recent very heavy casualties. " It seems plain from the dis- jointed nature of his attacks that he is finding it difficult to drive his infantry forward to face our fire."
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