_August 10_
Sir Ian Hamilton reports that fighting at several points on the
Gallipoli peninsula has taken place during the last few days.
Substantial progress has been made.
In the southern zone 200 yards on a front of 300 yards has been gained
east of the Krithia road, and has been held in spite of determined
counter-attacks, which have been repulsed with heavy loss to the enemy.
Repeated attacks by the Turks elsewhere in this zone have been beaten
off.
Several attacks by the French Corps have been made and their
whole-hearted co-operation has proved of the greatest assistance.
In the Anzac zone a footing on the Chunuk Bair portion of Sari Bair has
also been gained and a crest occupied after fierce fighting and the
successful storming of strongly held positions.
Here, too, the enemy's losses have been considerable. The advance was
commenced at night under cover of a searchlight from a destroyer.
Elsewhere a fresh landing was successfully effected and considerable
progress made.
Six hundred and thirty prisoners have been taken together with one
Nordenfelt gun, two bomb mortars, nine machine-guns, and a large
number of bombs. Scattered about are quantities of the enemy's rifles,
ammunition, and equipment.
_August 11_
The latest report from Sir Ian Hamilton states that severe fighting
continued yesterday in the Gallipoli Peninsula, mainly in the Anzac
zone and in that to the north.
The positions occupied were slightly varied in places, but the general
result is that the area held at Anzac has been nearly trebled owing
chiefly to the gallantry and dash of the Australian and New Zealand
Army Corps, while to the north no further progress has yet been made.
The troops have inflicted heavy losses on the enemy, and the French
battleship _St. Louis_ is reported to have put out of action five out
of six guns in Asiatic batteries.