THE DARDANELLES

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLIX, Issue XLIX, 31 December 1915, Page 5

THE DARDANELLES

IMMENSE OFFENSIVE WAS IN . PREPARATION

DETAILS" ELABORATED BY . GERMANS.

(LONDON, Dec. 29. klr J» .D. BouTchier (special eorresjdenfe at Bucharest for "The Times"), a- "delayed message*- dated the 12th, test—"The Turco-Germans are very ive in preparing an .immense offensive Gallipoli. Munitions have arrived, 1 there is the.Titmost confidence that will-have an .enormous effect in the' ►slem world. German officers are berating the details. Six 42-centi-tre (16£-inch) howitzers and two baties *of -Austrian 305-millimetre ■ (12h) howitzers, -will be -used. The Gern ■submarines in the Mediterranean - estimated at fifteen. -*Germairy is- making an effort to improve the relations with Turkey. The Gotiben's .'band discourses music twice dally, infetjhe new Turco-German gardens at Constantinople. "A serious quarrel broke out, owing to German officers* indiscreet partiality for Turkish* ladies, and there was a Violent scene "between Bnve* Pasha and General \Liman von Sanders! Officers were sternly admonished, and those of the> ■navy. : were confined- to their ships after dark.. "Had-'the Allies attacked General von Her Goltz's army in Thrace recently, prior to the arrival of munitions,, the story of Gallipoli would have been changed." *" •

IKE MZICS IN PRjOT

1 . A GHRISTMAS MAGAZINE. * c .. " LONDON, Dec. 28. Capain Bean, he Commonwealth official correspondent, has edited the ChVist'mas'magazine■ named "Anzac." «erse, prose, -and drawinss poured in volumin-. ©usly'-and he is "publishing the magazine- in" London shortly. ✓ I