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In Western Europe, the second battle for Artois continues. This last week saw renewed Allied offenses around the world.

German Trenches at Garua. From Wikipedia.

On May 31, the German fort at Garua was surrounded by Allied soldiers, who entrenched around the fort. The Germans are reported to be well-supplied in anticipation of a lengthy siege, although there have been reports of drooping morale as shelling from naval guns causes casualties among the defenders. There are no reports of British or French casualties at this time.

On June 4, the Allies launched another attack for Krithia at Gallipoli. Although their objectives were scaled down from the original April 25 landing timeline, they failed for the third time to reach them, although they outnumbered the Ottoman defenders nearly 2:1. They also suffered more than twice the casualties, losing 6,500 men to the Turks’ 3,000.  It would seem that frontal attacks from beaches will not be a successful tactic for the Allies, as this failure of June 6 has shown…

The Sphynx, a noted feature of the Gallipoli battlefield. From Wikipedia.

On June 5, in response the Austrian Navy’s shelling of Italian cities on the Adriatic coast, several Allied task forces were sent and commenced their own shellings of Austro-Hungarian cities.

A map of the Gallipoli area. Krithia is located in square 23, near the top of the map.