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A brief report from Sir Ian Hamilton was issued by

the Press Bureau on Thursday afternoon. It explains that in the recent Gallipoli.fighting .(on the southern and Anzac lines and at the fresh landing in Suvla Bay) the casualties were very heavy on both sides. This was due to the fact that the Turks had just brought up reinforcements with aview to a fresh attack. Itseems from prisoners' statements that the British attack was only twenty-four hours in advance of the new attack which was being planned by the Turks. This report was apparently written before the successful little undertaking in Suvla Bay (reported in the papers of Wednesday evening) by which the left of the British line was advanced five hundred yards.

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