The Dardanelles.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIII, Issue 71, 23 November 1915, Page 5

The Dardanelles.

THROUCH RUSSIAN EYES. [United Press Association.j Petrograd, November 2'2. M. Shumsky, reviewing the Dardanelles situation in the Bourse Gazette, assumes that General Monro's report favors the withdrawal of troops from a standpoint of strategy. The original landing at Gallipoli was. he says, open to serious objection, •as it was clear that the ultimate fate of the Dardanelles has been decided at Berlin. Nevertheless, the campaign attracted the main body of the Turks and relieved the pressure in Egypt 'and the Caucasus. The capture of Constantinople was not feasible, as it demanded a larger force than -mild safely be spared. The first attack on • the Straits proved that no fleet in the world could overcome them. The •coastal fortifications, however, wore weakly defended, and it is now. clear that the .Anglo-Erench Avere divided into three parts, while the enemy was a single compact mass. Hence Geii'jjral Monro's report as to the necessity for leaving Gallipoli. M. Shumsky states that it is more than, inexpedient to leave the Balkans. The Austro-Ger-mans cannot be permitted to strengthen their human resources by Bal,kan contingents, or use a free passage ,to Asia Minor and Egypt. General Monro evidently recommends the concentration of the three groups of the Allied armies in the Balkans, which is imperatively demanded by the principle of strategy. A victory in Macedonia will open the road to Constantinople more speedily than the slow siege operations at Gallipoli.

AIRMEN'S EXCITING EXPERIENCES. FIGHTING IN THE ANZAC ZONE. The High Commissioner reports:— London, Nov. 22 (6.35 p,.m.) Two British aeroplanes supefcsiully attacked the railway station at Faretjik, near Enos, on Friday. One machine was brought down by the enemy's fire, the pilot managing td land, in the'marshes on the opposite side of the river, where he burnt his machine. The' secpnd i pilot | landed 'b6sjde. him/ 1 ' an<l brought' Mm 'away jiist m time td escape capture. At Russell's Topj in the Arizae' zone, where the Turks recently mine, we bccupied bn Satuiuhy part of-' the enemy's ( underground workings. A fight occurred underground, and two Turks were shot by their own officer. Several others were killed with bombs.