PREPARATIONS IN BRITAIN.

Auckland Star, Volume XLVI, Issue 68, 20 March 1915, Page 5

PREPARATIONS IN BRITAIN.

FORCING THE DARDANELLES MAIN STRONGHOLD ATTACKED. j- ■" ' - • ■ l BOMBS DROPPED ON CALAIS RUSSIANS FIGHT ON GERMAN SOIL r j "? c so industriously prepared by the British and trench through the rough winter months will soon find their way to the fighting line, and it is evident that a much more strenuous campaign than that already in progress is to be waged. The War Office is converting schools, infirmaries, - and other buildings all over Britain into hospitals in pre- | paration for the great influx of wounded which will follow the [ order for a general advance. ; The Allies are still hammering away at the German line, and nave made slight progress in the Champagne area, while all the enemy's counter-attacks have failed. ..,.. A Ze PPelin dropped bombs on Calais on Thursday night killing a number of non-combatants, but doing no damage of mihtary importance. A Taube dropped bombs on Poperingue, j in t landers, killing a number of civilians. \ The Allied warships are proceeding with the most desperate part of their work of opening a way through the Dardanelles, and are now attacking the forts in the Narrows where the strait is only two-thirds of a mile wide, and where many guns have been concentrated by the Turks under (krman direction. ' An urgent appeal is to hand from Servia for help in the hospitals, where there is an immediate need for large staffs of doctors and nurses. Many of those already there have been struck down by disease as the result of overwork in diseaseaden atmosphere.