[70] Mr. Roch’s Minute, par. 43; Mr. Churchill’s speech on March 20, 1917 (Hansard, 1793). Unhappily, M. Venizelos resigned on March 6, 1915, owing to Constantine’s renewed opposition to a combination with the Allies.
[71] Dardanelles Commission; Majority Report, par. 109.
[72] Dardanelles Commission; Majority Report, par. 111.
[73] In What of the Dardanelles? Mr. Martin Fortescue, an American correspondent, gives a brief but interesting criticism of this unfortunate action from the Turkish-German point of view (pp. 27–47). As seen from the Cornwallis the action is described in The Immortal Gamble, pp. 45–53.
[74] The total British casualties during the whole naval enterprise were 350; on March 18 they were 61.
[75] Dardanelles Commission; First Report, par. 119. Speaking of this naval attack, Dr. Stürmer writes: “To their great astonishment the gallant defenders of the coast forts found that the attack had suddenly ceased. Dozens of the German naval gunners who were manning the batteries of Chanak on that memorable day told me later that they had quite made up their minds the fleet would ultimately win, and that they themselves could not have held out much longer.”—Two War Years in Constantinople, p. 84.
[76] Dardanelles Commission; First Report, pars. 115, 119.
[77] With the Twenty-ninth Division in Gallipoli, by Chaplain D. Creighton, p. 23.
[78] Dardanelles Commission; First Report, pars. 107, 108.
[79] See Sir Ian Hamilton’s first dispatch.