RUSSIAN NAVAL ATTACK ON THE BOSPHORUS

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2425, 1 April 1915, Page 5

RUSSIAN NAVAL ATTACK ON THE BOSPHORUS

ENEMY'S GUN-FIRE INEFFECTIVE GERMANS CONSTRUCTING NEW BATTERIES (By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright.) _ . , , ' , . , . Petrograd, March 30. The Russian bombardment is forcing the Turks to divide their fortress engineers. The. ships are several miles (a Paris "'message says oleven miles) out to sea, and waterplanes are directing the Russian fire. The forts are mostly equipped yith 6in. guns., which are too near the water to be very effective. The Germans are constructing new batteries' on higher ground. The Russians are specially shelling two forts on the Asiatic shore and one on the European, where largo guns are placed. MINE-SWEEPING IN THE DARDANELLES w t e 4. * * T. , V , , ROme ' Marcll 30 - «• c ? oh a . e , • T " :four hours bombardment commencing on the ni<*bt of March 27, to which several of the forts did not reply and the Allied warships were undamaged, the operations in the Dardanelles have been chiefly confined -to mme-sweeping. GERMAN GENERAL DIRECTING THE TURKISH OPERATIONS. . Constantinople, March 30. Ill# Sultan has issued a decree announcing that General Liman von Sanders is in command of the Turkish forces at the Dardanelles. AN INTERVIEW WITH FIELD-MARSHAL VON DER GOLTZ. (Rec. March 31, 5.60 p.m.) v . ~,, , , r, , • . London, March 30. .Meld-Marshal von Der Goltz, interviewed at Bucharest, en route to Berlin, announced that he was returning shortly to Constantinople. The Turks he said, were in spirits, ami had plenty of munitions. Thev were to "the Allies in the "Laud of Fights,'' and u*erc confident of success.—("Times" and Sydney "Sun" Services. RUMOURED CHANGE OP GERMAN PLANS KAISER AND VON DER GOLTZ AT A WAR COUNCIL. (Rec. March 31, 10.55 p.m.) . , , _ .. , t ~ , Rotterdam, March 31. A report from Berlin states that the Kaiser and Field-Marshal von der Goltz attended a of and prepared a new plan of campaign and fresh diplomatic instructions arising out of the capture of Przemysl, aiid the position at Constantinople. PREPARING THE TURKS FOR THE INEVITABLE ARRIVAL OF THE FLEET DESCRIBED AS "A FRIENDLY CALL." (Rec. March 31, 11.30 p.m.) London, March 31. A courier from Constantinople reports that the city is resigned to the inevitable, and the Government is preparing the inhabitants for the arrival of the Allies. Proclamations which have been posted up at the Mosques soy that the arrival of the Fleet is concerned simply with the question of opening up a free passage through the Dardanelles for foreign warships, a privilege which the Sultan had hitherto refused. It has no political or national significance. The population is urged not to resort to violence, as after a few weeks the fleets will sail away, content to have mado a simple demonstration. The phrasing of the proclamation seeks to show that the forthcoming visit is more in the nature of a friendly call, which the Turkish Government is looking forward to with tlio keenest delight. GREEK DISTRICT TERRORISED. (Rec. March 31, 11.30 p.m.) London, March 31. Tn.e large Greek population resident in the Phanari district lias become terrorised. The people are prisoners in their own houtesprovince of Kharditza, near the TurkThanari district is in tho Greekish frontier..]