STILL ANOTHER RAID?

Press, Volume LI, Issue 15309, 19 June 1915, Page 9

STILL ANOTHER RAID?

CONSTANTINOPLE R EVISITED

aMORE TURKISH VESSELS SUNK

(Received June 18111. 5.15 p.m.) ROME. June 17. ..nether British submarine reached Coiistantinuple, and sank two vessels, and a large steamer i„ the Golden Horn. All the forts and warships fired at the submarine, but it was not hit. _ Since the end of April. British and French submarines have been doing good work in' the Sea { ,f Marmora. The .1-15 sp.nt three weeks cruising in the inland .sea. On her passage through the Dardanelles she sank a Turkish

unbent; on April 29th. .-ho sank

transport full of troops; on May 3rd. a gunboat; on May 30th. a very large transport full 0 f troops; and on May 13th slit; caused another steamer to run aground.HH r conimandt'r was awarded the Victoria Cross. The Ell sank a .steamer carrying a very large quantity of heavy gun ammunition aiid a heavily-laden supply ship, and finally entered the harbour at Constantinople and torpedoed a transport lying alongside th,. Arsenal, which is .situated some

distance up the Golden Horn. On June 2nd a Renter message stated that a British submarine sank two Turki-di transports, one laden with troops, in the Sea of Marmora. The following day it was officially announced that a submarin , bad sunk n largo transport in the Sea of Marmora. About the .same time it was reported that two Turkish vessels had been sunk by a French submarine.

The operations of the submarines have greatly increased the difficulties of the Turks in -.ending reinforcements and supplies to Gallipoli, while the visit of Ell to the Golden Horn created a panic in Constantinople. To reach Constantinople involves a .direct sea journey of nearly 190 miles from the -Egean .Sea, forty-eight miles through the Dardanelles, and 135 rniJe. across the Se a of -Marmora. After entering the mouth of the Bospiiaru., the submarine would have to roun<] the peninsula on which the main portion of Coristartirnple i.. built. and then turn sharply to the left into the inlet known as the Golden Horn. This inlet is a large and important harbour, running

from east to north-west, capable of floating 1200 ships. It curls up in a course of little more than four miles to tlie foot of tho hills. There are two bridces across tbe month of the Golden Horn joining Constantinople with Pora. and tho Arsenal is in a bay just above Pera.