OPERATIONS IN THE DARDANELLES TRAWLERS DRAG THE STRAITS

Evening Post, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 55, 6 March 1915, Page 7

OPERATIONS IN THE DARDANELLES TRAWLERS DRAG THE STRAITS

FORTS BOMBARDED (By Telegraph. — Press Association. — Copyright.} (Received March 6, 9 a.m.) PARIS, sth March. A communique says : — "Operations were continued in the Dardanelles cm Thursday. Trawlers, despite a gale, dragged the straits. The cruiser D'Entrecasteaux demolished the semaphore and lighthouse at Arsoun. The Jaureguiberry destroyed the oil depot at Said." ATHENS, sth March. The Allies bombarded the forts at Kilid Bahr, Medjidieh, and Nagara. Part of the fire was directed over one of the headlands. ROME, sth March. Admiral Souchon, aboard the cruiser Breslau, with the Hamidieh and Medjidieh and four Turkish destroyers, is anchored at Nagara. [The name Said in this message should probably be Saida, anciently » Sidon.^ It\is a port On the coast of Palestine/ 30 miles south of Beirut. Kilid Bahr is the first of the bigger forts on the European side of the Narrows of the .Dardanelles, and Medjidieh also guards the Narrows. Nagara is the northernmost port of the Asiatic coast at the Narrows. The D'Entrecasteaux is an tinarmoured French cruiser^ of 7995 tons, completed in 1898, and armed with two 9-inch and twelve 5,5-inch guns. The Jaureguiberry is a French battleship, dating from 1896. She carries two 12-inch, two 10.8-inch, eight 5.5-inch, and twenty-four small guns. The Breslau is the light cruiser which Germany handed over to the Turks at the beginning of the war j she is armed with twelve 4.1-inch guns. , The Hamidieh and the Medjidieh are Turkey's only modern ships besides the Goeben and Breslau. They are of 3800 and 3432 tons respectively, and are each armed with two 6-inch, eight 4.7-inch, and several smaller guns.] GREAT DAMAGE DONE BY FIFTEEN-INCH GUNS (Received March 6, 9 a.m.) ATHENS, sth March. The bombardment of the Dardanelles was resumed with extraordinary intensity. Each shot from the 15-inch guns (of the Queen Elizabeth) shattered ■ thousands of tons of rocks, and Turks, with forts and batteries, were destroyed. The ships have entirely demolished the abandoned strongholds. FORTY GUNS DEMOLISHED The Premier has received the following message from the High Commissioner;— ' LONDON, 6th March, 1.30 a.m. " The Admiralty announce that the attack on the fortresses of the Dardanelles has been continued. "The results obtained within the straits have not yet been reported. "Ffom outside, H.M.S. Dublin demolished the observation station on GalKpoli Peninsula. The Sapphire bombarded guns and troops at various points on the Gulf 6f Adramyti. "Six modern field guns near Fort B were destroyed, bringing the total gtlus demolished to forty. "French battleships bombarded Bulair forts and wrecked the Kavack Bridge." ' , • • TURKS FUNERAL PYRES FOUND * v f ■ .. rs , i, „ ATH BNB, sth March. Landing parties in tho Dardanelles report finding many funeral uvrea of Tonka killed by the bombardment,