FORCING THE DARDANELLES.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXV, Issue 10713, 6 July 1915, Page 5

FORCING THE DARDANELLES.

ACHI BAB A SERIOUSLY THREATENED. ENEMY SHORT OF MUNITIONS. (Received July 5, 1.30 p.m.) ___ LONDON,' July 4. It is reported from HityiCne that the operations of the past *veek have materially improved the Allies' position. The advance puts our linesT'Tri a position, to seriously threaten the Turkish, occupation ot have reached Turkey through the Balkans _ for a month. The production of the i<wo Turkish factories is practically a. zero owing to lack of material and the scarcity of skilled labour. The Turkish artillery is limited to a sc o re of shells in the forenoon aiia a score in the evening. __ , , , r , •, The spirit of the soldiers 's drooping. Prisoners state that then comrades would willingly surrender, but the Germans' strong''measures make this difficult. Machine guns under picked men are placed in commanding positions behind the trendies, and they have no hesitation m firing on their comrades if they show the slightest inclination to cease spirits of the Turks are only sustained by bringing up entirely fresh, %'oops. a process which >annot last long. The French artillery is mag nficent. In one four hours bombardment it poured 10,000 shells upon four lines o? trenches 430 yards long. When the infantry advanced there was not the slightest opposition. Tho men rushed up the slope without a shot being fired, and found the defenders were annihilated. The trenches were a mass of wreckage. It is estimated that ten French shells fell on each square yard. It is reported that Field-Mnrsbal von der Goltz, the German leader of the Turkish armies, has asked the Turkish Government for an additional 300,000 men before he will accept full responsibility for the defence of Constantinople.