The Dardanelles.
SEVERAL TOWNS DESTROYED. i IN THE PREVIOUS BOMBARDMENT. TREMENDOUS. TURKISH LOSSES. Received April 12, 11.20 p.m. London, April 12. Letters from the Dardanelles showthat the towns of Sedd-el-bahr, Kum Kali, and Yeni Shesv were destroyed, not a single intact house being left. But forty or fifty thousand Turks, utterly reckless of their lives dodged around the ruins, picking off landing parties one by one. The Turkish losses were tremendous. A single British sixinch lyddite shell fell in the midst of fifty Tnrks and wiped them out, not enough of them being left to be called a dead body.
ADVANCE OF WARSHIPS. Tenedos, April 11. Warships are approaching the coast of the Gulf of Saros and destroying a Turkish. Ibattety. .„, ~
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 260, 13 April 1915, Page 5
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121The Dardanelles. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 260, 13 April 1915, Page 5
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