BOMBARDING.

Feilding Star, Volume XI, Issue 2576, 6 March 1915, Page 2

BOMBARDING.

FORCING THIS DARDANELLES DEMORALISING EFFECT OF

FIFTEEN-INCH GUNS

(Received March 6, 8.25 a.m.) Athens, March. 5

The bombardment of tho Dardanelles was resumed with extraordinary intensity. Each shot from tho loineli guns shattered thousands of. tons of rocks. The Turks, with tho forts and batteries destroyed entirely, became, demoralised, and abandoned their strongholds. Athens, March Ji. Landing parties at tlie Dardanelles report finding many funeral pyres of the Turks killed during the bombardmeut. London, -March 5. The Admiralty announces that the attack on tho fortresses in the Dardanelles has been continued. The-re-sults obtained within tho straits are not vet reported. Outside, H.M.S. Dublin demolished an observation station ou Gallipoli peninsula, and tho Sapphire bombarded guns and troops at various points in the Gulf of Adraliiyti. Six modern iield guns near Fort II were destroyed, bringing the total gmis demolished up to '10. French battleships bombarded LJuliar lorU and wrecked the Kavack bridge. (Received March 6, 9 a.m.) Paris, March 5. A communique states that during operations in' the Dardanelles on Thursday trawlers., .despite the gale, draged the Straits. The cruiser Dentrc Ca.sea.ux demolished tho'semaphore, station ami lighthouse at Arsollll and Jaiirenijuiberry, and 'destroyed an oil depot. Athens, March f>. Tim Allies bombarded tho forts of Kiliil Bahr. Mcdjihieh, and Nagara. Part of their lire was directed over one of tho headlands. Rome, March o. Admiral Sloiicliou is on board the Uroslau, which, with (he Hamidieh, Medjidieh. and four destroyers, is anchored off Nagara,.