NEW WAR WEAPONS IN GALLIPOLI

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2530, 3 August 1915, Page 5

NEW WAR WEAPONS IN GALLIPOLI

TURKS ADOPT INCENDIARY SHELLS

(Rec. August 2, 10.20 p.m.) London, August 2. Router's Dardanelles correspondent writes: "Our airmen reported that large Turkish reinforcements had been seen, leading to the belief that a further attempt would bo made on July 23—the anniversary of the proclamation of the Turkish Constitution —to drive the Allies into the sea, as their aeroplana messages had threatened. "Apropos of these threats, the authorities at Constantinople have seriously claimed that their gallant troops had effected this, but that each time tho aquatic propensities of the British enabled them to 6wim ashore again and regain their positions. - ' "When tho attack came it took the form of squirting liquid substancei into tho French' trendies, followed b,v bombs, which ignited the liquid. The French 'seventy-fives' quickly silenced the bombers. "The Turks also fired a new incendiary shell, fifteen inches long, which i{ discharged noiselessly, possibly from a catapult. "Later came an attaok on a salient on our extreme left, which has been the. objective of many unsuccessful attempts."-