The Dardanelles

Taranaki Daily News, 26 July 1915, Page 5

The Dardanelles

ON CALLIPOLI. OEXERAL ATTACK IMMINENT. A SCWtAIUXK BOMBARDMENT. deceived July 20, 3.5 p.m. Athens, July '24. Advices from Constantinople indicate that the Turks are preparing for a yenera! attack, ou Gallipoli. The Turks realise that they have lost command of the inner 'seas and the Black .Sea. A British submarine on the 17th bombarded (ihereen, a station near Tugla, wrecking a wheat-laden train, and bombarded the ammunition works at Zictunburnu, causing explosions. A SMART SKIRMISH. I TURKISH ATTACK FOILED. Received July, '£">, 4.40 p.m. London, Julv 24. The Press Bureau states that General lan Hamilton reports that the Turks \ on the southern section on Friday afternoon attacked the northern trenches on our left flank, under cover of- heavy shelling. A small force of Turks dashed up to our sap-heads, -but two machineguns immediately fired, and the survivors retired, leaving forty-nine dead. There are probably others out of sight,] as our shrapnel was effective. The' whole affair only lasted twenty minutes. 1

! THE BRESLAU TORPEDOED. GERMIAX SUBMARINE ASHORE. Received July 2'li, 1.30 a.m. Athens, July 2.5. Constantinople advises that the' Breslau was torpedoed in the Black Sea, n'nd has returned to the Bosphorus with a hole amidships, below the waterline. The German sullnnarihe Xo. 51 is stranded off Tchekmedje. To date, thirty-four vessels, totalling 130,000 tons, have been sunk in the Marmora, and Black Seas. '