DANGEROUS STAGE COMMENCING

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2414, 20 March 1915, Page 7

DANGEROUS STAGE COMMENCING

FORCING THE DARDANELLES FLEET MUST COME WITHIN RANGE OF SHORE 1 GUNS 1 I (Rec. March 19, 8.5 p.m.) j London, March 10. \ The "Daily Mail's" correspondent says that the most dangerous stage of ( forcing the Dardanelles is commencing. The fleet must come within range of 1 the shore batteries, and possibly of concealed, guns and torpedo tubes, which i could be used when the vessels get into the narrow passage. j 1 TWO REPORTS FROM GERMAN SOURCES. \ London,' March 18. ] A Berlin report says that Allied troops have been landed at various points uear Smyrna.—"Times" and Sydney "Smu" services. (Rec. March 19, 5.55 p.m.) London, March IS. A wireless message from Berlin states that 80,000 Turks have been concentrated in the Smyrna neighbourhood.—"Times" and Sydney "Sun" services. CONCENTRATION OP TURKISH TROOPS AT VARIOUS POINTS. I (Rec. March 19, 9.35 p.m.) Athens, March 10. There is a lull in tlio operations at Smyrna. The Turks are repairing tho torts and batteries. Forty thousand Turks are on the Gallipoli Peninsula, thirty thousand in Turkey in Europe, and 110,000 south of the Dardanelles. EXTENSIVE GERMAN INTRIGUES IN PERSIA —- t INCRIMINATING DOCUMENTARY EVIDENCE f c , c (Rec. March 19, 8.5 p.m.) ' London, March 10. . The Press Bureau states that documentary evidence has reached the Brit- P ish Government proving that German consular officials intrigued to facilitate j, the invasion of Persia, and that Herr AVassmuss, consul at Shiraz, and recently at Cairo and Constantinople, was also in possession of thousands of violent and inflammatory pamphlets in English, Urdu, Hindustani, Puujaubi, and Sikh calling on the Indian Army to kill their officers. ' ( Correspondence between the German Legation and Consul at Bushire shows that a large consignment of arms and ammunition reached Busliir'e and was secretly taken up country by officers of the gendarmerie for the Persian sheiks of Jiaisole who were desirous of attacking. Tlio Bushire Legation promised to combinc the Raisolis attack with the German movement already a secretly arranged which was designed to win over all Persia. 1 : h