THE DARDANELLES

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 197, 30 April 1915, Page 5

THE DARDANELLES

I TK3 DARDANELLES. , TUESDAY'S BOMBARDMENT. (Kcc. 9.25 a.m.) ATHENS, April 29. Britishers tire operating on the European coast and the French on the Asiatic side of the Dardanelles. Tuesday's bombardment lasted for twelve hours, mainly against Kilifi Bahr forts. SOUTH AFEICAN EZISELLION. UNION FOEG'ES FKOGKESS. (TCcc. 9.25 am.) CAPETOWN, April 29. The Union forces occupied Dabero3. south-east of Gibcon, and captured "transports and a quantity of stock. The country north of Daberos is clear of the enemy. GSFvMASf.ATTACH AT YPRES. DEFINITELY STOPPED BY ALLIES LONDON, April 2S. Sir John French reports that fighting north and north-ccst of Ypres was continued on Tuesday. Cur operations, hi connection with those cf the French, definitely stopped the German attack, though there is still a small bridgehead at Stcoristrr.at. The situation required the delivery of British and French counter-attacks north of the Ypres salient. The Germans, in resisting these, used asphyxiating gases, con traveling The Ilag-ie Gonventior..

LIQUID CHLO&INE. GERMANS CAVE LARGE STOCKS. LONDON, April 2f». Sir .Times Dewar s-ys there is Httl* doubt that the latest G&raan w»ap<>B is liquid chlorine. For some years Germany has ..been manufacturing it. tremendously, practically supplying the world with chlorine. They undoubtedly have hundreds of toas available. "When allowed to escae into the atmosphere it immediately evaporates and forms yellow gases. If the wind wetre favourable it would be the easiest thing in the world to inundate the country for miles ahead. Being heavier than air it drifts like a thick fog along the surface of the, ground, ao that escape from its deadly effects is well-nigh impossible. FURTHER PARTICULARS. PARIS, April 29. The Germans had metallie tubes prejecting from the first line of trenches. At a given signal they lighted the tubes, and red flames shot up for 12 yards, followed by the thick, greenishyellow smoke of chlorine. The Germans retired to their second line of trenches, and also threw fuses giving off similar smoke. RETALIATION URGED. TURPINITE SUGGESTED. PARIS, April 29. The Temps says the use of gases is the last crime left to the Germans to perpetrate. The German explanation that The Hague Convention rules specify only asphyxiating projectiles hypocrisy. The rules are not aimed against any special engine for spreading gases, but against asphyxiating gases generally. The Journal declares that it is necessary to employ the same methods of retaliation without delay. L? hale what is said about the tu/penite asphyxiating shells is Irre nc doubl France will ho able to was' with these latest methods on terras of cert:? i a equality with the cr.'r.iy.

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