THE DARDANELLES
BOMBARDING CONTINUES. A TURKISH REPORT. Received Dec. 5, 5.5 p.m. London, Dec. 4. A Turkish communique says: In artillery combats at the Dardanelles the enemy cruisers, torpedoers, and monitors participated in unsuccessful bombardments on Anafarta, Ari Btirnu, and Sedd-ul-Bahr. We have had some minor artillery successes, which continue. Near Sedd-uMßahr the enemy fired a great number of aerial torpedoes against our centre and left wing- during a,vigorous bonalb encounter. The' communique repeats the. false charge, already officially denied, that the British_ are using hospital ships as transports. Amsterdam, Dec. 3. A Turkish communique says: There was fierce bomb-fighting at some points on the Dardanelles front. Two enemy armored cruisers near Anafarta and two I near Ari Burnu and Seddul Bahr supported the fire of the batteries. Our artillery replied, damaging the trenches and destroying a machine-gun position at Anafarta and the position of some bomlb-tlirowers at Ari Burnu. Our artillery by terrible fire hunted a cruiser off Seddul Bahr, forcing her to retreat. An aeroplane bombed an enemy torpedo boat which was stranded on the northern shore of the Gulf of Saros.
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Taranaki Daily News, 6 December 1915, Page 5
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184THE DARDANELLES Taranaki Daily News, 6 December 1915, Page 5
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