THE DARDANELLES

Otago Witness, Issue 3183, 17 March 1915, Page 25

THE DARDANELLES

PARIS, March 14. Le Matin’s Athens correspondent states that the Queen Elizabeth, in the Gulf of Saros, destroyed the Turkish military buildings and several shore batteries. There was a violent duel throughout Saturday night between the cruisers and the forts. French cruisers vigorously cannonaded and dispersed a body of Turks. The Daily Mail correspondent, describing the bombardment of the Dardanelles, says that the Triumph did more fighting than any other ship in the British fleet, and fired more heavy shells than any ship

in the navy’s history, wrecking gun aftes gun, bricks, and earth, and making thi guns turn somersaults on to heaps of oU stone. Cannonballs were sent rocketing skywards, and every one hit. The Turk* at nightfall set fire* to the forts and barracks. The reopening of the Dardanelles wil] release 85 steamers, including 11 British and 27 Russian vessels. GENERAL VON OER GOLTZ. LONDON, March 15. The Daily Chronicle’s Athens correspondent cables that General von der Goltz and a large staff recently went to Smyrna to strengthen the fortifications. The general suddenly disappeared, and Germans at Constantinople believe that he has been murdered. THE YOUNG TURKS’ LEADERS. ATHENS, March 15. Halil Bey, Djavid Pasha, and Hussein Pasha have left Constantinople. Other Young Turks are preparing for flight. The inhabitants every morning crowd the roofs of the houses, scanning the Sea of Marmora and the Bosphorus. FUGITIVES FROM CONSTANTINOPLE. BUCHAREST, March 14. The city is crowded to overflowing with fugitives from Constantinople. THE SUBMARINE BLOCKADE, THE PRESSURE ON GERMANY. LONDON, March 14. The Press Exchange telegraphs from