The best news which has been received from the Gallipoli
Peninsula since the landing was issued by the Press Bureau on Wednesday evening and published in Thursday's papers. The communication, in effect, contains Sir Ian Hamilton's report of a brilliant advance of a thousand yards in depth made by our troops on June 28th. The action began at 9 a.m. with a heavy bombardment by heavy artillery from the sea as well as the land. At 10.45 the infantry were ordered to storm a Turkish advance work known as the Boomerang Redoubt. Sir Ian Hamilton describes how the Border Regiment, " at the exact moment prescribed, leapt from their trenches like a pack of hounds and, pouring out of cover, raced across and took the work most brilliantly." This description will delight hunting men on both sides of the Border, and it must indeed have been a deeply moving spectacle. A little later the infantry attack was carried out with great dash along the whole line, the Royal Scots making a specially fine attack. The Royal Fusiliers, the Lancashire Fusiliers, and the Gurkhas are also specially mentioned by the Commander-in-Chief. During the night the enemy counter- attacked, but was repulsed with heavy loss.
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