The Dardanelles
OPERATIONS DELAYED. HUGE FLEET MOBILISING. ' Received March 28, 5.5 p.m. Athens, March -Si. Twenty-five first line vessels will participate in the Dardanelles. The delay ifl partly due to weather, and partly to waiting for further vessels. / / FORTS REPAIRED AND MANNED BY GERMANS. TURKS CONCENTRATING. THE ALLIES' INTENTIONS.
Athens, March 26,
The forts at Clianak are manned almost entirely by German?, a thousand of whom are in the forts or. both side? of the Narrows. The Allied Admirals have decided to use special warships to sweep the coa-.t-line yard by yard, owing to the danger from shore torpedo tube-. The Turks, fearing a Bulgarian onslaught, are nastily fortifying the Mari-keui-Luleburgas line.
There are 48,000 Tnrks ronccntxaVil on the siatie side of the Dardanelles and 10,000 near Gallipoli under German officers.
Bad weather enabled the Turks to < feef important repairs to the DardanelV forts and to Teplace the daraag-'d gun.
MINE-SWEEPING RESUMED.
Received March 28. 5.5 p.m.
Athens. March 27.
Equinoctial gales in the Dardanelles have ceased, and mine-sweeping La- been resumed.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 248, 29 March 1915, Page 5
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172The Dardanelles Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 248, 29 March 1915, Page 5
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