ON TO CONSTANTINOPLE.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 168, 20 March 1915, Page 5

ON TO CONSTANTINOPLE.

FORCING THE DARDANELLES. MOST DANGEROUS STAGE COMMENCING. (Reed. 8.40 p.m.) LONDON, March 19. The “Daily Mail’s” correspondent says that the most dangerous stag|e af forcing the Dardanelles is now commenciiiU The fleet must come within range of the shore batteries, aaki possibly concealed guns and torpedo tubes which could be used when the vessels get into the narrow passage. \ DETAILS OF THE TURKISH FORCES. (Reed. 10.30 p.m.) ATHENS, March 19. There is a lull in the operations at Smyrna. The Turks are repairing the forts and batteries. There aye 40,000 Turks in the Gallipoli peninsula, 30,000 in Turkey .in Europe, and 110,000 south of the Dardanelles. A VALLEY OF THE DEAD. AWFUL CONDITIONS IN SERVIA. WOUNDED CANNOT RECEIVE ATTENTION. (Reed. 11.30 p.m.) LONDON .March 19. Captain Bennett, Red CVos s commissioner in Servia, makes an urgent appeal for help:. He describes Uskub as a valley, cf the dead, with horribly overcrowded hospitals'. Six doctors, with 12 orderlies, and without nurses, attempted to attend to 1800 sick and wounded. Half the doctors and orderlies have died cr have been stricken down, and the patients aye dying- because their wounds are undressed. Scores of doctors have fever, and nurses are wanted. The Swedish steamer G-'eheland with for their prisoners, but of 750 in camp only 20 are able to stand, and 60 are dying daily. There is nobody to (remove the dead. When a stranger enters, the silence of the camp is broken by moans: “For the love of God give ns water,” or “For God’s sake, br'ead.” RICE LADEN STEAMER SUNK, TORPEDOED IN THE CHANNEL. (Reed. 10.30 p.m.) . LONDON, March y 9. The steamer Glenartney, bound from Bangkok to London With a cargo of rice, was torpedoed in the Channel and sank in half an houß A destroyer landed the crew at Newhaven. An apprentice was drowned. j