BIG DARDANELLES ATTACK

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2444, 24 April 1915, Page 7

BIG DARDANELLES ATTACK

FLEET BOMBARDMENT

ALLIED TROOPS REPORTED ON THE MAINLAND ■

BREAD RIOTS IN TRIESTE

REVOLT Iff (MIAN POPULATION

NORTH SEA SHIPPING SUSPENDED' •

. No fresh developments, beyond progress reports of ground gained, and local attacks and counter-attacks, are reported from' tho Eastern or Western fronts to-day; There have been serious bread riots in ; Trieste, where the civilian population, in open revolt against the latest call to tho Austrian colours, has got out'of hand, run amok, and done considerable damage. The. position of affairs in the Austro-Italian : crisis remains unaltered, but there are afloat the most persistent and • extraordinary' rumours —credited in high places—that Italy's problems will be 'unexpectedly solved by a general peace in the not very remote future. Reports from the Dardanelles, where the censorship is now very rigid, indicate that the big ait tack by the naval and military forces acting in conjunction has at length begun. . The Allied Fleet is bombarding the Gallipoli Peninsula, the Germans report the landing of troops on the Turkish mainland, and much activity is discernible on tho island of. Lemnos, the advanced base of tho expeditionary troops. 4 .There has been a pause in the operations of the German: submarine

pirates in the North Sea and British coastal waters—a week's toll \ disclosing one steamer and one trawler. . According to a report from Amsterdam, a British official notification, which has not been explained, has suspended all shipping between the United Kingdom ports and the Dutch coast.