DESTROYERS AT WORK.

Gisborne Times, Volume XLV, Issue 3977, 9 July 1915, Page 5

DESTROYERS AT WORK.

MANY TURKISH VESSELS SUNK. A TOUR OF ASIA MINOR. RUSSIANS WATCH THE BOSPHORUS. (Received Julv 9, 1.10 a.m.) LONDON, July 8. The “Daily Telegraph’s” Athens correspondent reports that I a French destroyer toured the coast of Asia Minor from Chios to I Kioamba and destroyed twelve vessels acting as the enemy’s sup,l ply ships. The destroyer also fired Birmen forest. Another French destroyer bombarded Tchesme and Adalia, destroying the lighthouse and Customs station and sinking 12 ships. . A Russian official message states : Our destroyers in the Bosphorus opened heavy and accurate fire upon a submarine, which dived. Its fate is unknown. We sunk five Turkish sailing vessels and four galleys coalladen for Constantinople. mm in otstantinople CONTINAUL ARRIVAL OF WOUNDED. INCENDIARIES AT WORK. THOUSANDS OF FIRES REPORTED. (Received July 9, 12.00 a.m.) - SOFIA, July 8. The fortifications at Adrianople have again been dismantled and the guns transferred to Hademkeni, General Brauber, the new German military commander, saying that it is useless to fortify the city as it will soon he in the bands of the BuP gars. , . The population of Constantinople is gloomy owing to the continued arrival of wounded Turks instead of the British and French prisoners whom the population had been led to expect. There is much relief because British submarines are abstaining from torpedoing passenger steamers, but the transport of troops is greatly restricted. Frequent fires are causing grave disquietude.- Two thousand five hundred houses were burned last week and them are fresh outbreaks nightly. The police profited \r these calamities to arrest many foreigners on charges of incendiarism.