THE DARDANELLES.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 202, 4 May 1915, Page 5

THE DARDANELLES.

TERRIBLE TIGHT RACrING. NARROWS FORTS SILENCED. f . (Rec. 11.20 a.m.) LONDON, May ? Reports from Athens state that 5/ ') Turkish wounded have arrived at . .1stantinople from he Dardanelles. The French are now advancing <a Ernkend, on the Asiatic side. Several forts on the Narrows h • a been silenced, the Queen Elizabeth’s guns doing terrible execution. A desperate battle is proceeding in the vicinity of Maidos, near the Narrows. Casualty lists are not available. Later, four British destroyers ar- ved and chased and sunk both Gen ...in vessels and took 46 prisoners. Submarines sunk the French si < • mer Europe, the American steamer (lalAight, and the British steamers >’aljgint and Edwaic.