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Show wm m yp GALUPOLl POSITION EVACUATION OF ZONE WHERE SO MANY LIVES WERE LOST CARRIED OUT SECRETLY. ienna Correspondent Declarss the British Gave Up Dardanelles One Day Too Soon, as Turks Were Out of Ammunition. London. The BriLish troops at the Suvla and An.ac district.liuf the Gal-lipoli Gal-lipoli peninsula have been withdrawn. This news was first announced here Monday in the following official statement: state-ment: "All the troops at Suvla and Anzac, together with their guns and stores, 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 with-'irawn with-'irawn are to be continued, it is inti-mated inti-mated in an official statement issued Monday night. A Vienna correspondent says that had the allied fleet returned to its attack upon the Dardanelles batteries on the day after the great bombardment bombard-ment of March 19 last the waterway to Constantinople would have been surely forced, in the opinion of a number num-ber of artillery officers of the defense 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 efforts ef-forts of the British and French fleet. For the fourth gun five shells were left, making for the entire battery a total of seventeen projectiles of the sort which the agressor had to fear. What this meant is best understood when it is considered that the battery in question was the one which had to be given the widest berth by the allied al-lied fleet. |