OPENING THE WAY TO THE BLACK SEA

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2392, 23 February 1915, Page 5

OPENING THE WAY TO THE BLACK SEA

, THE ATTACK ON THE DARDANELLES TURKISH COAST CAMPS BOMBARDED ■ , Constantinople, February 20. Official. —The battleships fired six h nndred shots, killing one Turk and slightljMmnding another. Three of tho enemy's battleships were damaged. Athens, February 20. Warships bombarded Turkish camps on the coast opposite Tenedos (a. : rocky island twelve miles south- of the entrance to the Dardanelles). , ■ 4 t London, February 20. The forcing; of the Dardanelles, besides securing the mastery of Constantinople/Would open the way to the Black Sea and facilitate the export of ten million quarters of Russian wheat lying at various ports, and thus oheapen food in. Britain and France. EVENTS IN THE EGYPTIAN THEATRE A FANCIFUIi DESCRIPTION OF OUR TROOPS. rv ~m ,•, „ , Berlin, February 21. The Cairo correspondent of the Taglicho Rundschau" suggests that the conquest of 'Egypt is easy, as there are only seventy thousand British in Egypt. The Australians and New Zealailders are fine big men and receive six shillings a day, many have private means but they are not volunteers, because Australians who do not enlist deprived of portion of their property. SERIOUS SITUATION IN SYRIA; TURKISH EXCESSES v . FEARED. , Alexandria, February 20. The American cruiser Tennessee lias arrived with 660 refugees.' The.crew stato that tho situation is serious in Syria. Excesses are feared when the Turks return from Sinai. Tho commandant, at Jaffa announced a victory, at Ismailia and that the Turks had captured Suez and were marching on to Cairo. This causcd jubilation amongst tho fanatical Syrians._ Tho crew alsq stato that thore is much dissatisfaction among tho Pedouiu levies. Several have been shot for refusing; to fight under the Germans. THE CAMPAIGN IN THE CAUCASUS. (Rcc. February 22,. 9.40 p.m.) . . iviih tbe fwks Iwe

, THE CAMPAIGN IN THE WEST . f GOOD PROGRESS BY THE ALLIES FIGHTING IN THE VOSGES. MOUNTAINS A communique states: "We lave recovered + f ar % Fel)ru ary 20. at \pres. Several hundred Germans were killed fin. 7 s prevl(n,s b' lost <- Kuteu. Uur Josses were slight."(Rec. February. 22, 9.140 p.m.) o fMeSi]^ P ' a^eb ®' and tail. It stftss that tharo gTeat ? r de ~ \pres, the Belgians retaking a section of atS ? elglau Eect . ioll of the enemy, who left several hundred dead. In the rinmm m omei)t_arily by enemy counter-attacks failed. Champagne district, tiro ' it '" a — >#* aw A later message states that in the ChamDarmfl dist™* counter-attack wa3 brilliantly repulsed, and foSowed bv an onAr??- enem y ,s which made the Allies masters 0! all the German P urßU it, wood taken yesterday. The Allies ° f th ° took a hundred prisoners. The Germans' attemnt t Mesm1 ' Eparges. failed. ■ bovcum attempt to recover. Les FRENCH OPERATIONS. IN THE VOSGES HOLDING TACTICS HIGHLY SUCCESSFUL. .• # ' (Rec. February 22, 8.40 p.m.) , wirtf? tas following reportTa SiM 2 " vrcth the French Army:—"Although orocress ic S , • olj server btod K V 6 ,r rk has bcen accomplishes: The French froonrTold^+'r svsst "" -** f&ssnst s^aws: enemy, in heavy losses. Frenc&s haf mVOl ™ g the