THE DARDANELLES.
GERMAN OFFICIAL STATEMENT
LONDON, April 21. An official' Berlin ■ message states that 35,000 Anglo-French troops have landed at-.Mudros. . •'. : • It is Believed .that action in the Dardanelles is about to' be reamed. The. Suez Canal has. been fortified along its entire length, but the troops holding it are comparatively weak. ; A new attack is expected in the vicinity, of Port -Said.- ■, [Mudros is on Miidros' Bay, a.iland^ locked harbour ,in . the. island cf Lemnos, between 30 and 40 miles south-west from the. entrance to the Dardanelles. The'-island is about 20 miles long, with fertile valleys, in which the population of 27,500,; mainly Greeks, practise sheep and goat farming. It wns taken by Greece in the last Balkan war. The groups of extinct volcnnnos, including Mo&ykhlos. rise to 1-iiO feet nt their hichest. and stand in plains covered with Kcorni. The is!:m<! is utmost destitute 'of tnvs. rv^" 1 tVo olive, usually, found ri!l throng that region, being wantin % 1
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume XXXV, Issue 9122, 23 April 1915, Page 5
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160THE DARDANELLES. Ashburton Guardian, Volume XXXV, Issue 9122, 23 April 1915, Page 5
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