Item 03: Ellis Ashmead-Bartlett telegrams, 1915 - Page 36
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[Page 36]
[Telegram form – The Eastern Telegraph Co. Ltd. Alexandria Station. Dated 14 July 1915. 203 words. Daily Telegraph London]
[Continuation of Ashmead Bartlett's report of the action of 29th June at Cape Helles]
it is said that some thirty fresh battalions were engaged in this move stop it is impossible to give a detailed account of these various attacks which have generally been delivered at night or at early dawn [stop] the enemy has been particularly severely handled on our left wing where he was caught no only by our field guns and heavy howitzers but also by the enfilading fire of destroyers stop in fact his massed advances have simply faded away before our artillery and the accurate fire of our infantry who have suffered a minimum of loss in resisting