THE DARDANELLES.

Evening Star, Issue 15892, 26 August 1915, Page 6

THE DARDANELLES.

FRENCH AIR RAID BEYOND THE NARROWS. PARIS, August 25. (Received August 26, at 9.55 a.m.) A communique states: The British, left iring in the northern zone made fresh progress in the past few days and carried 800 metres of enemy trenches. Operations in the southern zone are confined to artillery actions and patrol encounters. A French company on the night of August 23 successfully surprised a Turkish listening post. A counter-attack was repulsed. . Our aviation squadron, despite violent fire from the enemy’s batteries, successfully bombarded the landing places at Ak Bashi Liman (bay), on. the European coast, northward of Nagara. (One of our aeroplanes sank a big Turkish transport at her moorings. ' _ * MORE TRANSPORTS SUBMARINED. ATHENS, August 25. (Received August 26, at 9.5 a.m.) Two allied cruisers penetrated into the Dardanelles on Sunday, and successfully bombarded the batteries at Kaithavea I ? Krithia). Desperate fighting was continuous on the sector from Kitzia (7) to Ari Bumu last week. A British submarine sank four lame sloops transporting troops from Lapsalci to Gallipoli. [Lapsald is on; the Asiatic side of the strait, opposite the town of Gallipoli.] IN THE BLACK SEA. PETROGRAD, August 25. (Received August 26, at 9.5 a.m.) Russian _ torpedoers sank a large coalladen sailing -vessel bound for the Bosphorus. SERBIA AND BULGARIA. RECONCILIATION NEARER. London 'Times’ and Sydney ‘Sun’ Service *- _ LONDON, August 25. The Serbian papers favor the proposed agreement with Bulgaria. M. Pashitch, Premier of Serbia, in an explanation of his foreign policy'"to the Skupshtina, occupied 15 hours. Ifc is understood he declared himself in favor of making concessions to Bulgaria, trusting to the judgment of the Entente. RUSSIAN MUNITIONS OUTPUT DOUBLED IN TWO MONTHS. London ‘Times’ and Sydney ‘Sun’ Service*. LONDON, August 25. A Petrograd. message _ states that the present output of munitions is double ji* what it was at the beginning of June. This result is remarkable, in view of the transfer of the munition works at Warsaw, Vilna, and Riga into the interior of Russia. DEADLY STRUGGLE . FOR BREST-LITOYSK. GENEVA, August 25. (Received August 26, at 9.5 aim.) The Austro-German casualties south- ■ JfrL 0 Brest-Litovsk in one week were u i 9 stru ggle is desperate, and the whole countryside is devastated. •3* GERMAN ATROCITIES. RUSSIAN DISCLOSURES. PETROGRAD, August 25. (Received. August 26, at 8.50 a.m.) The following evidence was given of German atrocities at Lipuvka, where the Germans, failing to extract information from a dying Cossack named Antonoff, branded him with a red-hot iron. They hung another man head downwards and killed him. Two students at Kalisch interposed between a firing parly and their father, who had refused to give information. The father’s execution was postponed, and the students court martialled. GERMAN CANARD DENIED. LONDON, August 25. (Received August 26, at 8.50 a.m.) denial is given to a statement published by the German newspapers, professedly based on an extract from an English corporal’s dairy, that General Charles Ferguson last August told liis men to rive the Germans no quarter. ° AERIAL ENTERPRISE. PARIS, August 25. (Received August 26, at 9.35 a.m.) A communique states that a French airman bombarded Lorrach railway station, in Baden. ’ SUBMARINE WARFARE. COMPENSATION TO DENMARK. London ‘Timas' and Sydney ‘Sun’ Serrioae. . LONDON, August 25. • Germany has apologised to Denmark for submarining the steamer Betty in the North Sea on May 28. Germany offers to pay compensation, for the damage and loss. A SWEDISH PROTEST. ■ STOCKHOLM, August 25. (Received August 26, at 9.5 a.m.) .• • . .Sweden has protested to Germany . - against the shelling of the steamer Gofch- . .land and detaining ( her at Cuxhaven, -• ,' iv though ehe did nob contraband^ J -<As . ' '