GRAPHIC PICTURES FROM THE DARDANELLES

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2404, 9 March 1915, Page 5

GRAPHIC PICTURES FROM THE DARDANELLES

HOW THE FLEET OPENED FIRE

A MAGNIFICENT SPECTACLE

TURKS PANIC-STRICKEN

BATTLE IN POLAND

REIGN OF TERROR IN THE BUKOWINA

Graphic accounts of the opening of the grep-fc attack by the Allied fleets on the Dardanelles forts furnish an inspiring feature of to-day's war news. It was "a magnificent spectacle," says one eye-witness. The battleship Queen Elizabeth has again been in action with her monster 15-inch guns over a great- range. Naval operations in the Gulf of Smyrna are also reported, and related to tho general offensive in the Turkish theatre of the war are successful land operations inland some miles from the head of the Persian Gulf, where Anglo-Indian troops are fighting. The whole trend of events has produced a state of panic in Constantinople, and it is feared that the appearance of the Allied fleetß will be the signal for a general massacre of Christians*by Moslem fanatics, who are also expected to devote unpleasant attentions to the German officers who instigated the "Holy War." In the Western theatre, the Allies, have successfully dealt with the enemy north of Arras (south-west of Lille), in'the Champagne district, and in the Vosges region. The development of the French operations in the Vosgea oampaign is acquiring more importance day by day, and to-day we are told that they are masters of the military situation in Upper Alsace. ( From the Eastern theatre the news is fragmentary, but of encouraging import. The fighting at Pilica, it is reported, is assuming the character of another great battle. In the Carpathians tie Austriaps have encountered disaster, several units being annihilated in an attempt to force the passage of the River San.