EFFECTIVE BOMBARDMENT

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2664, 8 January 1916, Page 2

EFFECTIVE BOMBARDMENT

HOW DEDEAGATCH LOOKS NOW. Dr. Leo Lederer, tho special war cap respondent of-the "Berliner ' sends his paper a description of the re< 6ults of tlio bombardment of He travelled by rail from Sofia to the Tok of Hie Aegean, which now means a iourney of twenty-four hours but lie had to leave the train about twenty niilea from Dedeagatch, "because lccomotivca and railway trains aftord only too good rtercet for the watching ships of Lngland and France." So lie wis taken on a trolley drawn by four men out of the ast spurs of the hill country into the swampy land of the plain. Fifteen hundreTyards out to sea lay a great grey cruiser and two torpedo-boat nil the watah. Two miles out of Dedeafrtii +lip nartv "creep like Indians "long field-paths into L tor burntout town." They entered "behind th€ smoking ruins of the stat.OH.AW street running, parallel,with the seaeioM divides Dedcasatcli into Uo Kvervthinff 011 0W1 * a l J j " j '+ii(i bnUdiriw and stores, which "tha an aw one smouldering rubbis heap, first day of the bombardment ao< cording to the Oman correspondent, an aeroplane flew over the town, likesomi yLns IOI,Sr f b ro°™ ThS Suddenly twenty Bn£ warships lie off the liar, ? nblcV ami collapses; yellow flames stum me. in(o t)l0 smo k e . rK Jr from out of the great grain 1 -itori 'V part of the stone wall tumbles into tlie sea, struck bv .three shells. The whole quay is one b azing. smoking and onl.V the white lighthouse, which was built by French monev, standi out unharmed, , fat, and self-satisfied. ' Tlio whole population rushed out of tlw town through the green fields, .towards■ tlie heights of Badoma. The. great railbridge over the marshland around Dedcagatch was blown to atoms. The other station for traffic with the west is in ashes; so, too, are the German Cons.ulato and all the offices ariu warohousea of various German firms. "Dedcagatch," adds Herr Lederer, "is held at present by Bulgarian marines, although the Government does not think the French and English will bo eo mad «>. to attcmnt a landim; hera.' l