THE DARDANELLES

Taranaki Daily News, 16 December 1915, Page 5

THE DARDANELLES

ANAFARTA BOMBARDED. A TURKISH REPORT. Received Dec. 15, 8.5 p.m. London, Dec. 14. A Turkish communique states: Enemy -cruisers in the Dardanelles, assisted by a balloon, 'bombarded Anafarta. Our artillery replied. ..Near Sedd-uJ-Bahr, on December 12, the enemy, after using bombs and aerial torpedoes, attempted an attack, but were repulsed. AN ENEMY COUP. ' SAID TO-BE IMPENDING. Received Dec. 16, 1.4 a.m. Genoa, December IS. The Tribune's Constantinople correspondent learns from an absolutely r&: liable source that the Germans have prepared a formidable coup at the Dardanelles. Auatro-German transports are prepreparing for an expedition. WORST BATTLEFIELD IN ffISTOKJT. London, Dec. 14. Mr. Shepherd, the American correspondent in the Near East, says Gallipoli is Ihe most bloody and terrible battlefield Ira history, and will go down to the ages as a name of horror. The Turks are devilSh fighters, but always gentlemen. TROUBLE m CONSTANTINOPLE. Berne, Dec 14. Two German divisions from Sofia are starting for Constantinople, -where there is.serious unrest owing to rigors imposed by the Germans and gendarmerie. IN THE WEST.

ON THE BELGIAN COAST. f A HEAVY BOMBARDMENT. London, Bee. 14. The Daily Telegraph's Boulogne correspondent states that the British fleet bombarded the German defences in the vicinity of Ostend and Zeebrugge on Saturday and destroyed entanglements designed to prevent the landing of troops. It is stated that the enemy is prepared to evacuate the district, apprehending that a landing may follow the bombardment. The enemy took refuge in the cliffs near Baversyde. A German aviator attempted to fly over the ships, but was forced to return to the hangar, which our shell fire subsequently destroyed. A number of anti-aircraft guns were destroyed, and three large guns put out of action. The enemy did not return.

HAVRE EXPLOSION. ~

DUE TO AMERICAN:MUNITIONS. Boris, Dee. 14. Le Temps-states that investigation of the Havre explosion has disclosed that one of the buildings contained boxes of ammunition from America. One of the boxes was fitted with apparatus to cause destruction. The German prisoners' camp was located near the factories.

i HOLJJAND. Ti PROMINENT PRESSMAN PROSECUTED. ON CHARGE OF ENDANGERING NEunuLrrY. *,-'" Received Dec. 16,-5.5 p,m. Amsterdam, December 14. Mynheer Schroeder, editor of the Telegraaf, who was arrested for endangering the country's neutrality, has been acquitted. There was great cheering outside the court. The article on which Schroeder was impugned stated that there are in Central Europe a number of scoundrels who are responsible for the war. The Court held that it was not proved that neutrality was thereby endangered, and that the article had no effect whatever in Holland or beyond the frontiers. Mynheer Schroeder is undergoing trial on a second charge of endangering the Betttr*litatj«E,.tb»,St»t»-