THE DARDANELLES

Taranaki Daily News, 4 December 1915, Page 5

THE DARDANELLES

VALUE OF CONSTANTINOPLE. RECOGNISED BY AN AUTHORITY. Berne, Dec. 2. Dr. Schott, director of the Hamburg Observatory, describes the Dardanelles and Bosphorus as a joint or bridge-head in the great international route of the future—namely, the Berlin-Vienna-Con-fitantinople-Bagdad railway to the Persian Gulf and Indian Ocean. The route is secure, permanently open, and vital to the Central Powers.

TURKS STILL OPTIMISTIC. WAITING FOR GERMAN MUNITIONS. Received Dec. 3, 10 p.m. Salonika, Dec. 3. Mr. G. Wade Price reports that Greeks who have arrived from Constantinople state that food is very dear there. The casualties of the Turks at the Dardanelles are estimated at two hundred thousand, and many of them, sick and ill-clothed, continue to arrive from Gallipoli. The Turks maintain that tne Dardanelles cannot be forced, and look forward to the time when the arrival of German ammunition will enable them to drive off the Allies. The Greeks said that a battery of German ten-inch guns had been sent to Chanak, but it is likely to be five weeks before railway communication with Austria is re-established, the Serbians having greatly damaged the Nish to Belgrade section.