The Dardanelles.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVII, Issue 55, 5 July 1915, Page 6

The Dardanelles.

ALLIES: IMPROVED POSITION.

TURKS SHORT 8F SHELLS. S ■r-*■ * i >• ;<i; ■ •

THE DEFENCE OF CONSTANT!"

'■‘ ll UxifEu Press Association'. Mityleue, July 4

The operations during tlie past week materially improved the allied positions, and the advance puts our lines In a position to seriously threaten the Turkish occupation of Achi Baba. x. , y No munitions iiaVe reached Turkey through the Balkans ror a month. ‘‘‘‘‘“■'Tfie .production, Jrprii two Turkish factories is practically xero, owing to the x lack of material and a scarcity of "/la hour. The Turkish artillery is limited to a. score of shells'in the morning rind a score in the evening The spirits rif the srtldiers is drooping. Prisoners ' state that their comrades would* willingly surrender, hut the Germans take strong measures to « make this difficult. Machine guns rinder picked men are placed on commanding positions behind the trenches and. show ,im hesitation in firing , on their comrades if they .show the slightest inclination to cease fighting. The spirits of the Turks are only sustained hy bringing up entirely ffresh troops, which cannqt last long. The French artillery is magnificent. ; in one four hours’, bombardment they poured ten thousand shells oh four lines of trenches 480 yards long- When the infantry advanced there , was not the slightest opposition. They, mshed up the slope without a shot being fired, and found the .defenders annihilated, and the trenches a mass of wreckage. It was estimated that ton French shells fell on each square. yard It is reported that A on Drir Golf/ asked the Turkish Government for an additional three hundred : thousand riie'ii hefoi.e he accepts all the respou sflriljty for the defence of Constantinople. .