THE DARDANELLES

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 199, 1 May 1915, Page 5

THE DARDANELLES

THE DARDANELLES.

LANDING of the troops. INCESSANT BOMBARDMENT OF FORTS. ENORMOUSLY POWERFUL FLEET PARTICIPATES. FORTS HAMMERED TO PIEC 3. (Reed. 10.40 p.m.) LONDON, Apr"! . 0, The “Daily Chronicle’s” 1 yiene correspondent says the most ; erful fleet ever engaged in warlike uerations commenced to hammer t; Hellespont defences down on L ’ay. There was no cessation at nigh the darkness being lit by flashing - archlights. The thunder of the gun . was heard at Mitylene. Th e correspondent reached i, r.hbit Islands on Monday and witness I the bombardment. Tremendous cWimns of smoke at mid-day poured on from Kum Kaleh, and then the vil. ,g e of Yenishehu wa s ablaze.

Tall columns of smoke showed how was the fire upon tjhe K rrows where the small ships were dl-acting of th e battleships ape a Kilid Bah W-and Csanak forts. The largest battleships lay on the Europe n side of the entrance. There were often 20 discharges per minute. To the left of the entrance was the lin e of transports.

Tjlie bombardment was more intense in the afternoon. New fires broke out at several points on th e Asiatic shore. One shell took a huge mass of masonry from the cliffside at Kum Kale. It was evident all the resistance was ended, for the warships lifted their fire l higher up th e straits. Seddul Bahr fort was utterly knocked to pieces. Then two French warships took up the game. By four o'clock the firing was its maximum, particularly by a battleship in Eren Keni Bay. The Turkish guns did not reply seriously until the midafternoon. The Allies’ artillery landed at Cape Hellcs and drove back a battery near Seddul Ba)hr. As the battery was retiring a battleship found the range', the Turks bravely stood to their guns and fired thre e shots. The warship replied with seven shots, and when the smoke had cleared away there was no sigm of lif e near the battery. were much more active with their artillery hnder cover pf the nigM. Another Turkish battery, was stationed on the road leading from Kum Kale to Eren Keur. The ships found tii range, and the Thrks limbered up and ratreated to Erenkeni, followed by shells, leaving dead men and fragments cf guns along the roadway. Tile Queen Elizabeth was standing well off the shore, and assisted in silencing batteries at Sakihisarlek. The Allies on IVlonday evening were in complete possession of the extreme tongue of th e Gallipoli peninsula, and the fiat shores of Suvla Bay, THE ALLIED FLEET. STAYS ALL NIGHT IN DARDAN- ' ELLE 3. (Reed 31,35 a.m.) ATHENS. April 30. The AHiea Fleets stayed inside the Dardanelles last night and re-opened i tei rifle nt daybreak. 1 , EZ-OAPTIT^D ip-' (Rce. J 0.5 a.m.) .LONDON, April 30 Official: A Pritisl* cruiser re-captur--3 the steamer Macedonia.

FOISTS SILENCED ► WARSHIPS REM ASM ALL MIGHT A TERfiSFiO BOMBARDMENT END OF GALLIPOLI PENINSULA OGOUPiEO DETAILS OF DAMAGE TO FORTS AHOIHLh AERIAL RAID 01 ENGLAND 17,000 MORE fj ■ W ZEALANDERS WANTED

OUR BOYS’ GALLANTRY AT THE DARDANELLES. WHAT WAS IT? 'ENGLISH PAPERS’ COMPLAINT. (Recti. 8.45 p.m.) LONDON,- April 30. Tlae newspapers complain that they are not allowed to know details of the Australian and New Zealand gallantry at the Dardanelles, wdiich were 1 published in Australasia. NO ADDITIONAL NEWS. OF NEW ZEALANDERS IN ACTION. RECEIVED BY' GOVERNOR. SCANDALMONGERS DEPRECATED. AUCKLAND, This Day. In responding to a toast at a civic dinner, the Governor said: They were all anxious to know- details of the doings of those who were near and dear to them. He regretted jhe had no other news than that already given to the Press. News could not be given out until the manoeuvres and strategy of the Allies’ troops were completed. If anything of importance l occurred he believed he would be th e first person in tjhe Dominion to know the particulars. When such news arrived, whether received by himself, or through tae Army Council to the Minister of Defence, it would be given out on the first opportunity. He strongly deprecated tjhe spreading of rumours as to casualties in the Expeditionary Force, lie earnestly trusted that losses would not he severe. He thought that the sooner scandalmongers got their duo the better it would be. HIGH COMMISSIONER'S REPORT. THE WEEK’S LOSSES. The Prim e Miniser lhas received the following from the High Commissioner, dated London, April 30th, 9 a.m.: Army officers killed 23, wounded 57, missing 6, men killed 68, wound® ed 85. prisoners, nineteen. In tb e Dardanelles, naval officei's killed 4; wounded 1; men killed 1, wounded 7.

Arrivals and sailings of merchant' men of all nationalities at United Kingdom ports for the week ended 28th April, was 1441. One wag sunk and 4 British trawlers were sunk. ANXIETY AND CRITICISM IN AUSTRALIA. (Reed. 11,20 p.m.) MELBOURNE, April 30. In the House, Mr Fisher, replying to pressing demands for further information regarding the Australians in Turkey, said he had asked the Imperial authorities to supply the earliest information. This would be made public as soon as it arrived, but the Government must stand by the British Army auth- - ritior in cl! their wishes and refrain from saying what they wish unsaid. In the Senate, Senator O’Keefe urged an media* e- protest to the British ■•. nth on'ns against the present system H o mm'.ring-the news about the Australians at tho Dardanelles. .The Incongruities of the censorship were ■ausing great anxiety. Senator Pearce replied that no exaeVion was possible in the strict ecu worship of news till the troops had reached their objective. The Government, however, objected to news appearing f.n British and European papars and being censored out of Austraic.n ]T r er- This would be brought LPu:r tho Imperial authorities’ notice.

“THE TIMES’’ ON THE &_ EJECT. THE CENSORSHIP CRH -S3D. (Recti. 12,30 a.m.} LONDON, J 'll 30. “Th e Times” in a leader . cgarcling the Government s cougrau. ions to the Commonwealth, states that the Australians’ galantry is very grateful nows to the British people. Nothing has moved the Mother Country more than the devotion of the daughter nations. - She sees in it the host auguries for lefty ideaig and spiritual traditions of the race. Britishers want to know why news available in Mel-' bourne and Wellington h.as not been announced in London. The Daily Mail complains that Britain has not yet been allowed to hear anything about the Australians and New Zealander" magnificent services at the Dardanelles. CANADIANS’ CONDUCT. the topic or Canadian press. (Roe. 8.35 u.m.) LX DON, Apvfl 30, The conduct of the Canadian;; is almost the sale topic in the Canadian press. There are many stories of individual heroism. Colonel Mcl-lay fell dead at the mouth of a machine-gun while attempting to rescue a private. Colonel Birchall was wounded twice before ho was mortally hit. In the Tenth and Sixteenth Battalions’ wonderful charge Colonel Boyle fell while leading ins men, cheering and yelling, into a perfect hell of fire from the enemy hidden in a wood three hundred vards away.

A medley of accounts has been rc ceivecl from Vancouver.

The Daily Providence surmises that the Germans were despising amateur soldiers. They knew exactly where the Canadians were, and knew they lacked experienced. .The Gerx.a.as were accustomed to long attacks and they know that by imparting novelty and - frightfulness in the shape of chlorine gas, their chanceof breaking the line was greatly enhanced. At first the results were just as calculated. It appears that some confusion into which the Germans drove full tilt, apparently surrounding some Canadians, is responsible for the announccmet that the Germans had taken 1000 prisoners, and was probably made when things looked like it by all rules of warfare. The Canadians were beaten but they didn’t know it, and while they suffered terrible casualties they gave as good as they got, and they eventually turned the tables on their foes. A sergeant-major says that from Thursday evening to Friday morning the Canadians held on to a position that was really untenable; if the Germans hadn’t held on the Germans might now have been masters of Ypres. EIGHT THOUSAND TURKS CAPTURED. FRENCH LAND BY CLEVER RUSE. BRITISH ALSO CUT OFF TURKISH FORCE. (Reed. 1.35 a.m.) TENEDOS, April 30. Thursday's demonstration and the landing on the plain at Troy enabled the French to capture 8000 Turks, including German officers. Not a few of the Turks war e suffering from revolver wounds from German officers driving tjhem to attack or desperately ndaavcuring <to prevent their retreat. The landing was effected by a comic ruse. Covered by the fire of battleships, a thousand donkeys with dummy baggage and mounted airguns landed at a certain spot. Germans immediately diverted a strong force,but meanwhite the real landing was effected som e distance up the coast. The donkeys were annihilated. A strong British force has been established across the narrowest part of the permission to cut off the Turkish garrison between Kiiifi Bahr and Cape Helles, aviators rendering valuable assistance in locating the Turkish positions and destroying Seamander bridge near Esine, and a large depot at Arosezine. TURKISH TROOPS MOVING. TOWARDS CONSTANTINOPLE. (Reed. 12.30 p.m.) SOFIA, April 30. The Allies’ successful debarkation at the Dardanelles has precipitated the movement of troops from Adrianople and Dcmotika towards Merattli. FREEDOM OF COMMUNICATION. AN EXTENSION WANTED. (Red 1.30 p.m.) LONDON, April 29. Mr Bonar Law advised that the Hour o wait for Mr Lloyd-George’s Bill :iid reports before expressing an opinion. Mr .Toynson Hicks urged th e Gov- ■ —*■ re ■ t. *■ {" - rvTG endow sspowith Dcminions and India, as ■-■'•■art limitation was cripppling ad;-. The Government replied that it was ; sibh at present to consider inT3y tj*." "nr’ of carles, rrctec..iui wt the re...-.lng na*..licvnt