FLEETS APPROACHING THE NARROWS

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2405, 10 March 1915, Page 5

FLEETS APPROACHING THE NARROWS

HOT FIGHTING IN THE DARDANELLES

THE ATTACK ON SMYRNA

NEW MOVE BY THE ■ ALLIES

EXPEDITIONARY BASE I NORTH

AFRICA

STIRRING EVENIS EXPECTED

The attack on the Dardanelles by the Allied Fleets has now al- ' most reached the stage when the attacking ships miist negotiate the Narrows—the constricted and tortuous gorge into which the Straits contract at this point* The fortified works which defend the Narrows have been resolutely and successfully attacked by the Allies' Dreadnoughts, which silenced the batteries with direct fire at short range, sustaining trifling casualties iii the process; Bad feather has interfered in the Western .theatre, delaying 1 the closing up of a. successful series of operations in the Champagne, district. Heavy gun firing has been heard from Ypres, but of its import there is no news. lii the Vosges the French troops are consolidating their positions and making satisfactory progress; News from the Eastern front is meagre, the most' important item being a tare statement of the fact that the German offensive movement iii the Pilica district has been checked, frhile in the Carpathians fresh disasters hare overtaken the Austliins. The War fever in Greece is spreading, and the King is cleaHy in a .minority ill the general demand for intervention, ■ whiie the ex-Premierj who favours intervention, tag been rhade a popular herd. A most important piece of news is the statement that a new base for the movements of expeditionary, troops has been established in North Atrica, and this is interpreted by Mr. Massey (the New Zealand premier), aS indicating the approach ,of stirring , eventß in tie Dardanelles theatre ofi the vrar. The submarine pir- , ates are ence again in evidence, but .they have hot had things all their owii way. .