the sea and
H.M.S. _Talbot_, guarded by a ring of destroyers against the German
submarines which had given effective evidence of their presence in the
Gulf of Saros, did terrible execution and played a large part in the
success of the British attack.

By nightfall, five lines of Turkish trenches along the coast had been
captured, 200 prisoners had been taken and several guns and much
ammunition had fallen to the British troops. The Turks made
counterattacks on the two succeeding nights but never regained the
ground they had lost.

While this was going on, Enver Pasha directed in person a determined
attack upon the troops at Anzac Cove. On the night of June 29, 1915,
after artillery preparation, two unsuccessful attempts were made by
the Ottoman troops to carry the British lines.

On July 4, 1915, the Turks launched another attack, starting from the
neighborhood of Achi Baba, against the whole allied front,
concentrating on the point where the French and British lines joined
up. They had a momentary success when they penetrated into one of the
British trenches, but in the end they were driven out.

On July 12, 1915, Sir Ian Hamilton ordered an attack which won about
400 yards in the direction of Achi Baba, but at heavy loss to one of
the Territorial Brigades, which broke through a couple of the Turkish
trench lines, but was unable to establish a connection with the French
on their right. Finally some local points and a few trenches were
carried, but as the Turks had something like fifty miles of trenches
in Gallipoli, it became apparent that at this rate the allied troops
would be wiped out long before they came within sight of the Narrows.

CHAPTER LXXVI

RUSSO-TURKISH OPERATIONS

The Russo-Turkish campaign which had developed in Transcaucasia, the
Caucasus and Persia at the beginning of 1915, proved to be little more
than a futile dissipation of energy for the best part of a year. To
Russia it was more of an inconvenience than otherwise, while for the
Turks it was the only point besides Egypt where their geographical
position permitted them to strike a blow against the enemies of
Germany. Her two nearest neighbors--Greece and Bulgaria--were both
neutral at the time. The most interesting feature of this campaign is
the fact that it largely influenced the allied operations at the
Dardanelles.

On August, 1915, Sir George Buchanan, the British Ambassador in
Petrograd, published the following statement i