DARDANELLES EXPLOIT.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1499, 23 July 1912, Page 7

DARDANELLES EXPLOIT.

4 ITALIAN ENTHUSIASM. By Tcleeraph—Press Association—Copyright Rome, July 21. The newspapers are exultant over the Italians' brilliant exploit at the Dardanelles. According to the "Tribuna," the forts are protected by 800 guns. Tho "Giornale d'ltalio" describes, the reconnaissance as a magnificent self-sacri-fice, comparable only to the famous raids of Constantino Kanaris, in the Greek AVar of Independence in 1822. Constantino Kanaris was one of the heroes of the Gresit War of Independence. He made a daring attack on thy Turkish flagship on tho night of Juno .22, 1822. With two Small brigs fitted as warships, and n party of 3(i men, Kanaris succeeded in approaching the .flagship, attaching his fireships to her, and setting them on fire. Ho and his party (hen escaped. Tho flogship blow up, sending the Capitnn Pasha and "000 Turks into the air Bo repeated tho feat at Tencrtos live months' later, and in the'two ventures was supposed to have disposed of-1000 Turks. By further attacks with fires-hips atMitylene and Samos in 1821, he finally •..s----tablisUcd-an utter panic in flic Turkish Navy. ' RED SEA ISLANDS CAPTURED. Aden, July 21. Advices from Hodoidah state that the rebel leader Syed Idris and his partisans from the Yemen have captured tho Farsan Islands, off the coast of. Arabia, in' the Red Sea, The Turkish garrison of 200 men and the civil officials are prisoners. In February last it was stated that Syed Idris, tho Pretender, is organising a force to occupy tho Farsan Islands, which were recently vacated by Mahomed AH Pasha's army. It was believed that.the Italians wcro assisting the Pretender, who has two machine guns. Tho Turkish authorities wero then staled to be considering the immediate dispatch of an expedition.