VIOLENT DUEL IN THE DARDANELLES

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2410, 16 March 1915, Page 5

VIOLENT DUEL IN THE DARDANELLES

QUEEN ELIZABETH AGAIN IN ACTION THE PLIGHT FROM CONSTANTINOPLE • • Paris, March 14. : The "Matin's" Athens correspondent states that the Queen Elizabeth, from the Gulf of Saros, destroyed military buildings and several shore'batteries. There was a violent duel throughout Saturday night between the cruisers and the forts. The French cruisers vigorously cannonaded and dispersed a. body of Turks. H.M.S. TRIUMPH IN THE HEAT OF THE FIGHTING.. (Rec. March 15, 6 p.m.) London, March IS. The fDaily MffilV correspondent, describing the bonibafdnient of tbe Dardanelles forts, says that the Triumph did more fighting than .any other vessel in the British Fleet, and firerl more heavy shells than any ship in the Navy's history, wrecking gun after gun. ' Heaps of old stone cannonballs were sent rocketing skywards at every bit. ' ' " '/ . The' Turks at nightfall, set fire to the forts and the barracks.—"Times" and (Sydney "Sua'' Services. HAS VON DER GOLTZ BEEN MURDERED ? (Rec. March 15, 9.55 p.m.) London, March 15. The "Daily Chronicle's" Athens correspondent states that Field Marshal Von der Goltz, with a large staff of officers, who recently went to Smyrna "to prganise the strengthening of the fortifications, has suddenly disappeared. Germans in • Constantinople believe that they have been murdered. TURKISH REFUGEES IN RUMANIA, Bukarest, March 13. The city is crowded to overflowing with fugitives from Constantinople. (Reo. March 15, 11.25 p.m.) Athens, 15. Halil Bey, Djavid Pasha, and Husspm Pasha, have left Constantinople, pnd other Young Turks are preparing for flight.' The inhabitants of Constantinople every morning crowd the roofs of the houses, scanning the sea of Marmara aiid the Rosphorus, . ' WAR-BOUND SHIPPING WAITING FOR RELEASE. London, March 14. The reopening of the Dardanelles woi;ld release eighty-five steamers, including eleven British and twenty-seven Russian.—"Times" and Sydney "Sun" Services.