The Dardanelles

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 249, 30 March 1915, Page 5

The Dardanelles

BOMBARDMENT RESUMED. EFFECTIVE FIRE. Received March 30, 12.10 a.m. London, March 29.

Tenedos reports that the weather is excellent, and mine sweeping continues under cover of the battleships. The Turks at Kilid Bahr fired, but the warships promptly silenced them. It is estimated that the Allies were filing three shells a minute from the Gulf of Saros, directed by the warships at the entrance.

The fire was apparently effective, for volumes of smoke rose from the Gallipoli heights, and also from the Dardanelles shore. Much fire was directed at the new works at Kum Kale, whence dense smoke rose for an hour.

STRAITS TO BE OPENED.

OR, DOES THE PROCLAMATION

LIE!

MASSACRE OF CHRISTIANS FEARED.

Received March 20, 10.5 p.m. London, March 29. The Daily Chronicle's Constantinople correspondent reports that on Wednesday t'ie Government posted, proclamations in Pcra and in the mosques at Stamboul announcing that warships of France and England would shortly arrive in 'the Bosphoru*, a3 the Sultan was opening the Dardanelles to the free passage of foreign warships. The riffraff of the capital has been sent to a concentration camp in Anatolia. The Greek population is terrified, fearing a general massacre. The Government is doing its best to prevent an antiChristian rising.

The Turkish fleet is not mobilised, owing to lack of coal. Desperate efforts arc being made to patch the Goeben by means of a cofferdam. Duplicate parts from Germany, however are held up on the frontier. The Germans are putting together two submarines brought overland in sections, but there is a lack of torpedoes