The Dardanelles.

Taranaki Daily News, 29 July 1915, Page 5

The Dardanelles.

A BRILLIANT CHARGE

TURKS SHOUT OK MUNITIONS. HITTER FEEUXG PREVAILS. London, July Reuters l);ird;iuolles currespimdeni. describing the fighting cabled, says that the intense heat was accentuated b, a l.evanter which swept across the peninsula. The Turks are using high explosives, but their growing inferiority suggests that there is great difficulty in maintaining supplies. The Central Xe Agency says the Scottish Territorials, triumphantly cheering, charged a labyrinth of Turk.sh trenches, carried three lines, ami wire ready to storm Aclii l!aba itself. W'llen asked why they went on. one litd replied, "'We thought we might as well finish the whole business at OIUT."

Copenhagen, July '27. An employee of a salvage company, who had just returned from Constantinople, where he was repairing warships, states that the Turks arc at their wits' end to obtain fuel antl ammunition. All old warships are stripped of useful metals, and a house-to-house search has been instituted for the same purpose. Turkish feeling against the Germans is increasingly bitter. There was a big fight in Constantinople, in the infantry barracks, a fortnight ago, in which ten Germans were killed and fourteen wounded. The attitude of tile ipopulution is dangerous and hostile, and they will undoubtedly rise against the 'Germans at the first opportunity. The authorities are consequently confiscating arms wholesale. Gunners from the Dardanelles forts state that only a limited 'number of shells are allowed for each gun daily.

TURKS' VIGOR LESSENED. MUNITIONS PLENTIFU L. (Times and Sydney Sun Services.) London, July 28. >lr. Henry Nevinson, cabling from the Dardanelles, says that tile Turkish vigor in attack is much reduced, but all speak highly of the Turks' courage and clean methods of fighting. Prisoners declare that rifles and ammunition are plentiful and a large quantity of shells has been imported. The food is certainly better than during the Balkans wars, and 110 inhabitants have left. The whole district to Achi Baba is nothing but bare ground, tangled lines of trenches, and hidden guns, with thousands of invisible fighters. ENTERIC AND DYSENTERY. ' Received .Tulv "2S, 8.1,") p.m. London, July 28. Mr. Tennant, in the House, announced that there is a certain amount,of enteric and dysentery at tile Dardanelles. A SUBMARINE'S WORK. London, Julv 27. Router's Sofia correspondent says that a British submarine destroy®! a large vessel laden with charcoal off Maltapeii, on the Asiatic shore of the Sea of Marmora, and destroyed part of the railway line at Dilikleszi by; gunfire. ON ASIA MINOR COAST. TURKS FEAR ATTACK THERE. MAKING FEVERISH PREPARATIONS. Received July 20, 1 a.m. London, July 2.5. | The Chronicle's Athens correspondent reports that arrivals from the Dardanelles state that the Turks .apparently believe that the Allies will choose the Asia Minor coast for a new attack, and arc feverishly fortifying the shore between Kum Kale and Baba Kalessi. The whole length had been ploughed into trenches, at which thousands of Greek und Christians were forced to assist. Strong fortifications have been made at Ausla, and a number of howitzers from Smyrna have been placed behind the hills rising from the Menders river. The level plain of Troy is also heavily oil' trenched.