Millard County Chronicle | 1915-12-23 | Page 6 | Britons Give up Gallipoli Position

GALUFOLi POIi! EVACUATION OF ZONE WHERE SO MANY LIVES WERE LOST CARRIED OUT SECRETLY. Vienna Correspondent Declar:s the British Gave Up Dardanelles One Day Too Soon, as Turks Were Out of Ammunition. London The British troops at the Suvla and Anzac disirlct.fcuf the Gallipoli Gal-lipoli peninsula have been withdrawn. This news was first announced here Monday in the following official statement: state-ment: VA11 the troops at Suvla and Anzac, together with their guns and stores. 1 have been successfully transferred with insignificant casualties to another an-other sphere of operations." Operations in other sectors of the front on the Gallipoli peninsula than those from which troops were withdrawn with-drawn are lo he continued, it is inti- 1 mated in an official statement issued . Monday night. A Vienna correspondent says that 1 had the allied fleet returned to its attack upon the Dardanelles batteries on the day after the great bombard- 1 ment of March 19 last the waterway 1 to Constantinople would have been i surely forced, in the opinion of a number num-ber of artillery officers of the defense 1 works near Tschanek. One of the principal batteries had ( for three of its large caliber guns ; Just four armor-piercing shells each, when night ended the tremendous ef- forts of the British and French fleet. 1 For the fourth gun five shells were ,( left, making for the entire battery a 1 total of seventeen projectiles of the 1 sort which the agressor had to fear. What this meant is best understood 1 when iit is considered that the battery In question was the one which had to be given the widest berth by the al- 1 lied fleet. 1