ALL ASIATIC SIDE FORTS SILENCED.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXIX, Issue LXIX, 21 May 1915, Page 5

ALL ASIATIC SIDE FORTS SILENCED.

BRITISH AND AUSTRALASIAN AT-

TACKS PROGRESSING

TURKS MURDERING PRISONERS

(Received May 21, 10.30 a.m.)

, ATHENS, May 20. It is understood that all the Asiatic forts at the Dardanelles have been silenced.

Fighting at Krithia continues. The British are advancing behind the Turks' stronghold and are threatening to envelop it.

The Australasians continue to progress and their attack on Achibaba continues.

The massacre of British and Senegalese prisoners by the Turks is confirmed.