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Show I TURKS REPULSE BRITISH. In an attempted landing at Mudania. on the Sea of Mai mora, on Friday, the British were repulsed b; rapid-fire guns of the Turks, k British troops have had a sad experience on the strip of land bor- J denng the waterway leading from the Sea t" Constantinople, Three i battleships were sunk at the mouth of the Dardanelles and the bloodiest baptism of the war was at QaJlipoli, where Australian, New Zealand and English soldiers were mowed clown bj the thousands The Turks have made a fairly good showing in fight iug the British. Brit-ish. One of the first humiliating reverses for the troops of King George was the capture of Townsend and his command south of Bagdad But all the stains were wiped out as tin- British with their bull-dog bull-dog tenacity, each time returned to the conflict determined t master mas-ter the Turk and finally brought the armies of tin- BUltan to disaster In the present fighting, the British may continue to meet with determined de-termined opposition hut eventually ;reat Britain will dominate and shape the destiny of Turkey t the advantage of tin empire on which I the sun never sets. |