IN THE DARDANELLES

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2642, 13 December 1915, Page 6

IN THE DARDANELLES

ACTIVE OPERATIONS RESUMED By 'JMoxraph-Fress AsEootation-CopjTlgM * .t.j. Rome, December 10. . Advices from Salonkia &tate that important activities havo been resumed at Gallipoli. VIGOROUS ARTILLERY FICHTINC. m. i ■ , Amstertla m, December 10. A rurkish communique states that tliero has been vigorous artillery fighting at the Dardanelles. ' NEW ZEALANDERS IN ACTION. TURKISH ATTACK REPULSED, . - (Reo. Deoember 12, 6.6 p.m.) _ London, Deoember 11. The "Daily News" Athens correspondent reports that tho New Zealanders >n Friday, repulsed a Turkish attack on Kritbia. GERMAN OFFENSIVE. PROBABLE IN GALLIPOLL (Reo. December 12, 5.6 p.m.) Turin, December 1L The "La Stampa's" correspondent at Salonika states tha-t the powerful concentration of Germans makes an offensive in Gallipoli probable. : A large number of submarines in seditions from Germany passed! through Bulgaria by special trains towards Turkey;. AUSTRIAN BIC GUNS, REACH GALLIPOLI. (Reo. Deoember 12, d.5 p.m.) London, December 11. A Vienna message 6taies that'Austroffungarian twenty-four centimetre and thirty centimetre mortar howitzers, ' .whioh were such a success at Liege, . Antwerp, and the Carpathians, havo ' /reached. Gallipoli.A HOPELESS UNDERTAKING. GERMAN PRESS OPINION. ("Times" and 'Sydney "Sun" Services.) London, December 10. ITio "Berliner Tageblatt' .says it is ' plainer than ever that the Dardanelles undertaking is hopeless, and would have been abandoned long ago if it had' been as easy to get out of the jaws of the ■ lion as it had been to get in. England's attempt to conquer Mesopotamia had completely failed. GERMANS IN CONSTANTINOPLE, I TO SUPPRESS ANTI-GEEiMAN RIOTS. , (Reo. December 11, 5,5, p.m.) Athens, Deoember 11. General Mackensen has arrived at Constantinople with two Bavarian infant Jry regiments and several batteries, also , with German police, who will assist tho Turks in suppressing anti-German demonstrations. " MAP OF THE ORIENT. MILITARY ROAD TO EGYPT. ("Times" and Sydney "Sun" Services.) (Reo. December 11, 6.5 p.m.) London, .December 11. ' With a view of popularising the army in Egypt a title has been bestowed on General Mackensen's forces. The "Hamburger Fremdenblatt" is oiroula/ting a large map of the Orient called "the Military Road to Egypt," whioh is shown' majestically sweeping south from Germany to Vienna, thence to Budapest, Belgrade, Sofia, and Constantinople.