LIVELY BOMBARDMENT

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2469, 24 May 1915, Page 6

LIVELY BOMBARDMENT

TOWNS SERIOUSLY DAMAGED VIOLENT BATTLE ON THE PENINSULA TURKISH PRISONERS SENT TO TENEDOS ;: NEW ZEALANDERS KILLED IN ; ACTION ' (By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright} Athens, May 21. There was a lively bombardment of the Straits on Thursday last, particularly of the encampment on the Asiatic coast. •. The towns of Dardanelles (or Chanak Kalessi) and Gallipoli are seriously . 'damaged. ' Advices from the Dardanelles state that the Allies engaged in a violent, battle near the neck of the peninsula-; under the protection of the battleship Queen Elizabeth's guns. The Goeben,. in the Sea of Marmora, supported the Turks. Another 500 Turkish prisoners have been conveyed to Tenedos. V■ ' • TURKISH LANDING AND LOADING PLACES DESTROYED. (Rec. May 24, 3.30 p.m.) • Petrograd, May 22. : Official.—The Russian Black Sea Fleet disembarked troops on May 20, flespite resistance, and destroyed the landing and loading places east of Ei-egli. GERMAN AEROPLANE FOR TURKEY LOSES ITS WAY, v ■ (Rec. May 23. 3.30 p.m.) ....... • ■ r- -.Geneva, May 22. . _ A German aeroplane, bound for Turkey, alighted near Constantsa, in . Rumania. ■_ Two officers..ooinprising the crew have been interned,'.. V,.'.' TURKS CLEARED PROM PERSIAN ARABISTAN. 1 London, May 21. Th'e Press Bureau reports that, recent operations cleared out all the Turks from Persian Arabistan. ' ..RUSSIAN' CONSUL. AT ISPAHAN- ASSASSINATED. - ' •• London, May 21., . M. Alexander Karer, Russian Consul at Ispahan, has "been assassinated by t gang directed by Germans agents.—("Times" and Sydney "Sun" Services.) DETERMINED ATTACKS BY THE TURKS'REPULSED WITH HEAVY LOSS. _ High' Commissioner's report:— , , London,, May 22, 2.40 a.m. . " ■■ 'A Cairo official message says that on Wednesday, in the southern area of the Gallipoli Peninsula, the French forces in conjunction with the British made 'considerable advance and consolidated their new position. ' Our aeroplanes dropped bombs amongst the Turkish reinforcements landing at Ak Bishi Liman, and . caused considerable losses.

On Tuesday night the Turkish forces made determined, attacks against the Australian and New.Zealand Army Corps, but they were all repulsed with heavy loss. Their casualties were over 7000, 2000 being killed. Our losses do not exceed 500. .