THE DARDANELLES.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 144671, 4 May 1915, Page 3

THE DARDANELLES.

TURKISH PREPARATIONS. aiiL MEN CALLED TO ARMS. TIMES AND SYDNEY SUN SERVICES. (Received May 4, 8 a.ra.) LONDON. May 3. A Times correspondent at Sofia states that extensive arrangements are being enforced for a mobilisation throughout European Turkey. All available men, including refugees, are being called to the colours. The garrison at Adrianoplo has been scut to Jvcfrhan, north of the Gulf of Saros, where there is a great concentration of troops and heavy guns. Fort Papazcpcte sent south many mules for transport and quickfircrs collected at Dcmotica. Wire entanglements have been sent to Keshan, and the new levies will be doubled if arms arc available. REPORTS IK GREEK PAPERS ADMIRATION FOR AUSTRALASIANS. ATHENS. May 3. ' The newspapers., in publishing accounts of the lauding, express tho utmost admiration of tho courage and determination with which ihe Australasians, the British, and the French fought through what was behoved to bo impregnable defences. Only four thousand French Landed at Kum Kale, although twenty transports wore there with a view to giving tho Turks, tho idea that a great disembarkation was being made. Tho French are ; now advancing towards Ercukui. ! Several forts in tho Narrows have been silenced. The bombardment was incessant ou Saturday. Tho Queen Elizabeth’s guns did terrible execution in the enemy’s trenches. Tho tremendous displacement of earth buried many. A desperate battle took place in tho vicinity of Maidos, a Turkish battalion being captured. Reliable advice from Constantinople says five thousand Turkish wouhcied have arrived from tho Dardanelles. THE TURKISH STORY*. TIMES AND SYDNEY SUN SERVICES. CONSTANTINOPLE. May 2. It is officially stated that during the first battle at Kum Kale tho Turks did not firo a single shot, but reprised tho enemy with the bayonet. The Turkish batteries damaged the French cruiser Jeanne d’Arc, which retired ablaze, and sunk'.' An English.destroyer was damaged. Tho warships Majestic, Triumph and Vengeance, sixteen armoured'warships, and many destroyers took part and fired thirty thousand shells. Only a few soldiers were slightly injured. Tile Turkish shells hit two transports. One ran ashore. They also sank several sailing boats filled with troops, which a destroyer was towing. A LESSON FOR 'GERMANY. ON VALUE OF DOMINION TROOPS. (Received Slav 4, S.oo a.in.) LONDON, May 3. Colonel Maude, in tho Evening Standard, declares that tho success of i tho Australians and Nciv Zealanders : will probably exorcise a groat influence on the Gorman General Staff, who had formed a very low estimate of their fighting value. Now' tho Canadians and Australasians have shown their capability tho Germans will at last form a, serious conception Of what the British j Empire in arms means. MESSAGE FROM THE GOVERNOR. WELLINGTON, May 4. His Excellency tho Governor has forwarded tho following cable message to { the general officer commanding tho Now Zealand troops at tho Dardanelles, ■ through tho Secretary of Stale for tho Colonies; “New Zealand is filled with nrido at what her troops have accomplished, and desires that you will eoh.vey to all ranks her tribute of appreciation of thoir gallant conduct. Sew Zealand looks for-, ward eagerly to having fuller details regarding the operations of her men.—, Liverpool.” ’. I