The Dardanelles.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 289, 15 May 1915, Page 5

The Dardanelles.

GAINING GROUND. SILENCING THE FORTS. ONLY TWO REPLYJXG OX OXE SIDE. WARSHIP REPORTED SL-XK. Received May 15, 12.45 a.m. •Athens, Miiy 14. Kilid Tiahr and Souantere are the only forts on the European side tliat are replying. F.renkoui and other forts and movable howitzer batteries are shielded by thick pine woods. The Asiatic shore is still troublesome. ■ A Turkish official report says part-of the fleet attacked a British ironclad near •Morto Harbor on Thursday. • The ironclad was thrice struck amidships and sank* immediately. "CONTINUALLY GAINING GROUND." STEADY PROGRESS OF THE ALLIES. THE TURKS SURROUNDED. REINFORCEMENTS FOR THE ALLIES. .SEA OF MARMORA REACHED. .

SUBMARINES! ACTIVE. Received May 14, 11.30 p.m. Athens, May 14. The fighting at (iallipoli is indecisive, but the Allies had n number of minor successes, the French inflicting enormous losses. A severe struggle continues between the towns of (iallipoli and Maidus. The Turks were reinforced and are resisting desperately. The fortified heights of Aehi Baba resemble Spion Kop for impregnability. The Turkish army is penned in here, and is surrounded by the British on the west, the French on the south, and the Australians on the east and north. The Allies are continually gaining ground and forcing the Turks back from their main position. The Allies are continually reinforced by men from troopships from Egypt and France, including French, British, Algerians, Sikhs, Gurkhas, and Senguleso. The landing of the reinforcements was readily ali'ected. Teucdos, May 14. Two British submarines passed the Dardanelles miueliield and entered the Sea of Marmora a fortnight ago. The Turks claim they captured them, but until a few days ago the submarines bad matters all their own way between Gallipoli and Constantinople, sinking vessels, providing themselves with fuel and provisions, and spreading panic ainongit Turkish skipping.

TURKISH VESSELS SUNK. BRITISH WARSHIP LOST,, London, May 13. The- battleship Goliath (12,!i.j() ton?) was torpedoed in the Dardanelles.. Fire Hundred men perished and twenty of,fieers. One hundred and sixty-six were lese-uod. Mr. Churchill states that the Goliath was torpedoed hy a destroyer last night when protecting the French flank inside the Straits. (The Goliath is one of the older battleships, having been built in 1(K)0'. Shu was armed with four Fiin. and twelve Gin. guns.) The submarine El 4 .sank Uo. Turkish gurtboats and a large transport. Athens, Hay 13, The Turkish headquarters staff "at Gallipoli have 'been transferred •to Rodosto,. on the coast of the Sea. of/Marmora.

NON-COMBATANTS IMPERILLED. A TURiaSH. THREAT. London, May 13. Mr. Page (American Ambassador) handed to Sir Edward -Grey a note from the American Ambassador'at Constantinople, which stated-that the Turkish War Minister had. decided to send French and British subjects from Constantinople to Gallipoli and other fortified places in the peninsula and expose them to the dangers of. air raids, unless the Allies stopped aeroplanes throwing bombs and killing iKi'4-combata.nts. Sir Edward Grey replied that if noncombatants of the Allies were sent into the y.Qiie of the Ottoman armv war operations they would hold Enver Pasha, Said llalim Pasha, and all the members of t'w Ministry and also the commanders of the Turkish troops personally responsible for any injury to them. In a further note tile American Ambassador states he endeavored to disfeuanVtho War Minister against action pending the Allies' reply. " The War Minister .staled that he could not countermand the order, but he. agreed to send only fifty men between the ages of in and'4o. These would remain aboard a transport until a reply was received. No llriti.-h or French subjects connected with American missions or the Standard Oil or Singer Companies, would be sent. Twenty-six British subjects and twi'iity-finir T'ronch were, placed on a transport, of which only two were British born,' William Wick ram and Uarn- I load, and a'.-o two French born.

AUSTRALIAN CASUALTIES. LOXG LIST i,V OVVWFM^. r.eceived -Mav hi, .).:, p.m. Sydney, May 14. The fifteenth ea-ualtv list from the llardanellcs is:--Killed in action.—Captain Lu\t"ii Lieutenants Nudum! and Vounjr. Died of wounds.—Lieiitonanls Kicrnn, kavov. llinde; Privates Marflivt. Hamilton, inn. Wounded.—[.iciltenanl-Coloiie! lio-cn-tlllll, '.Majors Miwuess. Scoiuo, Ihowu. McXairhten. I'aker. I cmai-l'i. IVnnelk Jackson, Mason. McKeimii. Meevor. Kl lis: (a|itaiiis Union. Meiluiiv. Davidson. Richardson, Wai-oii. liean, Coltmnn. Milson. Oleic-, 1.0-.ve. IScnvicl- Yeoman. Ttoss, Trick;-.'. 1" Ah;". !!yder Melbourne

Redburg, HorUicott, Wortham, Jeffries; Lieutenants Jlastie, Shout, Cook, Tarra»t,..B«eken, iMcConaghy, Scldon, Turner Eldon, Manugh, McYea, Adams, Derham, Moore, Ridgcway, Cox, Ryan, Half, Broad Swift, Rcruvin, Cornier, Connelly, Dcnchy, Heron, Barrio, 'Convc, Hardy, Somerville, Farrier Saxton, Reid. Mcllattie. Two hundred and seventy-three men were wounded. Missing.—Captain Clements ami Lieutenants Cook", Morgan and Paid.

COLONIALS' FiNE FEAT. PRAfSE FOR THE LANDING. BRAVERY OF THE OFFICERS. Received Mav 11, 10.20 p.m. Svdnev, Mav M. Captain Bean, the ollieia'l correspondent with the Australians, in a despatch of three columns, dated Alexandria, May Li, gives a vivid description of the Dardanelles landing and the subsequent fighting. From this it appears that the first landing- parties consisted of the Third Australian Brigade. Captain Bean says sailors who watched the landing sjieak of it with enthusiasm and with tears in their eyes, and the New Zealanders are just as generous in their appreciation. He describes the feat fit to rank beside' the Rattle of the Heights of Abraham. Speaking of the later fighting, he says nothing can take away from the Australian and New Zealand infantry the fame of last Sunday's fighting. He gives high praise for the undaunted bran-cry of the oliieers leading.

GERMAN SUBMARINES. SEEX IX THE MEMTEUIUNEAX. Received May 14, i). 15 p.m. Athens, May 14. Gorman submarines have appeared ; n the Mediterranean. The Britisli Legation, oilers £SOO sterling to anyone giving infonnation of tlium.