The Dardanelles.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume IV, Issue 429, 7 August 1915, Page 5

The Dardanelles.

Stalemate Since August Ist. French Squadron Bombards Smyrna Coast. Enver Pasha Hopes to Rid Turkey of Germans. (mil ASSOCIATION —COPYRIGHT.] Paris, Aug. 6. A French battleship and two cruisers, with destroyers and mine sweepers and an aeroplane ship, bombarded Sighajik (on the coast in the Aegean south-east of Smyrna), a'nd destroyed the Customs office and part of the fortifications. Next dav they bombarded Scalanova, further south, while a cruiser destroyed the village of Spclia, used as a rcvictualling base by the enemy submarines. (Received 7, 9.15 .a.m.) • Paris, Aug. 6. A Dardanelles communique says th,ere have been no striking facts since the beginning of August. There are intermittent artillery duels and much aircraft activity. Athens, Aug. 6. It is reported that En.er Pasha, discussing the massacres with a neutral diplomatist, said our policy in Turkey is for the Turks. We are beginning to get rid of the Armenians, we shall then get rid of the Greeks, afterwards die Jews, and finally even the Germans.

NEW FRENCH GENERAL IN COMMAND.

( Received 7,9.15a.m.) Paris, Aug. 6. OFFICIAL. —General Sarraii replaces General Gourad as Commander of the French Expeditionary Force at the Dardanelles. MESSACE FROM GENERAL COOLEY. (Received 7, 10.10 a.m.) Sydney, Aug. 7. General Godley has replied to Mr. Holman on behalf of the Australians under his command, thanking New South Wales for.the splendid sympathy shown to the wounded. He adds: ‘‘Such assurance, coupled with the knowledge that the places of the fallen will be filled by a steady flow of reinforcements, is an enormous source of satisfaction to my troops.” THE TURKS' LIFE NOT A HAPPY ONE. HOUNDED BY GERMANS IN THEIR OWN CAPITAL. IReceived 7, Q. 1 5 a.m.) London, Aug. 6. A Moscow journal gives details, brought by Russians from Constantinople, of German treatment of Turkish civilians. They state that General v-o der Goltz lorced the entire population to work for the army, npd that numerous workshops have been established. these are i out rolled lay German engineers, who frequently have ihe Turks brutally beaten when they refuse to work or do iic>i work properly. These factories are manufacturing munitions, uniforms and hospital supplies. Other Turks exempted from military service are mobilised for agricultural labour. The population is intensely exasperated, and there are fights daily in the Constantinople streets between the Turks and the Germans.

ITALIANS PERSECUTED IN TURKEY. AMBASSADOR’S ENERGETIC PROTEST. Rome, Aug. 6. Signor Garron, Italian Ambassador io Turkey’, has energetically protested against the vexatious measures the Turks are imposing on Italians. Those who have been recalled to their mother countrv report that a condition of anarchy exists at the Porte. Signor Garroni, it is alleged, has decided io leave ( onstantinople.