TURKEY AT WAR.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 144826, 2 November 1915, Page 3

TURKEY AT WAR.

THE DARDANELLES.

GEE MAN SUBMARINES AT .WORK. ,

LONDON. Nov. 1. Mr. Ashmead-Bartlett, describing the work of German submarines in the Dardanelles, says that -one of their first fruits was tho Albion, which ran ashore. The -enemy directed a heavy gunfire on her and shrapnel was bursting all round. Tho Canopus went to the rescue and finally towed off the Albion, which was hit 200 times by shrapnel and common shell. Tho men on the Swiftsure arranged a sweepstake for sighting periscopes. The fourteen-pounders were ready day and night to fire at a moment s notice. One day a submarine appeared about 300 yards off the port bow. The Swiftsure gunners fired and she disappeared. It was thought the submarine was trying to force an entrance to the D.trdanellcs and came up blindly among our ships. W hen the alarm was given the destroyers were immediately _ alert, and as if by magic every battleship and transport weighed anchor and steamed at full speed away. When the Swiftsure signalmen announced that tho Triumph was listing We rushed to tho quarter-deck, and while our guns were bombarding the Turks, and theirs leisurely responding, we watched the dying struggles in silence. It suddenly seemed a weary, hopeless tight against invisible forces. Eight minutes after the Triumph was struck she turned turtle, floated for half an hour, and then plunged and disappeared.

THE MEDDLE AT SITVLA. LONDON, Nov. 1. An article in the Weekly Dispatch says that after the Suvla landing hours were wasted when minutes were precious. The passion for drill was indulged in to the utmost, trenches were dug m useless positions, and the night marches were a muddle. The British reinforcements failed to hold Sari Bahr, which one-tenth of the number of Anzao forces had held previously, because the now troops had never been trained for such fighting as that on Gallipoli. No single scapegoat can ho made. Australia and Now Zealand, in addition to Britain, have a consuming dosire to know’ who is jointly -responsible with the Suvla general. Lord Milner, speaking at Canterbury, defended criticism of the Government. No task is more obvious. If wo gloss over mistakes, like, say, the blonder piled upon blonder at the Dardanelles, wo cannot expect improvement. A TURKISH REPORT. AMSTERDAM, Nov. 1. A Turkish communique states; There is increased activity in the enemy’s artillc'V supported by warships. Our Anafnrta artillery hit a transport, which withdrew, enveloped in dense smoke.,