AT THE DARDANELLES.

Gisborne Times, Volume XLV, Issue 3994, 29 July 1915, Page 5

AT THE DARDANELLES.

TURKS IN SORE STRAITS. ATTITUDE OF POPULACE DANGEROUS. DIFFICULTY WITH SUPPLIES. COPENHAGEN, July 27. An employee of a salvage company i'ust from Constantinople, where he iad been repairing warship's, states that the Turks -are at their wits’ end for fuel and ammunition. All the old warships have been stripped- 1 of useful metals, and a liouse-t-o-hourse search instituted for the same purpose. The Turkish feeling against the Germans is increasingly bitter. A big fight occurred at Constantinople infantry barracks a fortnight ago, wherein ten Germans were killed and fourteen wounded.

The attitude of the population is dangerously hostile. Undoubtedly they will rise against the Germans at the first opportunity. The authorities are consequently confiscating arms wholesale. Gunners from the Dardanelles forts stated that only a limited number of shells were allowed to each gun daily. Reuter’s correspondent at the Dardanelles, describing the fighting reported in the cables, says the intense heat was accentuated by sandstorms raised by a ‘■‘Levanter,’’ which swept across the peninsula. The Turks are using high explosives, but their growing inferiority suggests a great difficulty in maintaining supplies. The “Central News” reports that the Scottish Territorials, triumphantly cheering, charged a labyrinth of Turkish trenches and carried three lines. They were ready to storm Achibaba itself. When asked; why they went on, one lad replied that he thought, they might as well finish the whole business at once.

Reuter’s Sofia correspondent states that a British submarine destroyed- a largo vessel laden with charcoal off Mai tape’ll, on the Adriatic shore of the Sea of Marmora, and also destroyed paid of the railway line at Dilikleszi by gunfire.

NEW ALLIED OFFENSIVE EXPECTED. TURKS’ FEVERISH PREPARATIONS. ASIATIC COAST FORTIFIED. (Received July 29, 12.20 a.m.) LONDON, July 28. The “Chronicle’s” Athens correspondent says arrivals from the Dardanelles state that the Turks apparently believe the Allies will choose the Asia Minor coast for a new attack. They are feverishly fortifying the shore at Kum Kale and Daba Kalessi, the whole length being ploughed by trenches, at which work thousands of Greeks and Christians are forced to assist. Strong fortifications have been made at Tusla, and a number of howitzers from Smyrna have been placed 1 behind the hills rising from Mendere. The level plain of Troy is heavily entrenched. TRIBUTE TO THE TURKS. CLEAN METHODS OF FIGHTING. VIGOR OF ATTACKS REDUCED. (Times and Sydney Sun Services.) (Received July 28, 8 p.m.) LONDON, July 28. Mr. Henry Nevinson, the war correspondent, cabling from the Dardanelles, says the Turkish vigor of attack has been much reduced, init all speak highly of the Turks’ courage and clean methods "of fighting. Prisoners declare that rifles and 1 ammunition are plentiful and a large quantity of shells has been imported, while the food is certainly better than during the Balkans wars. No inhabitants have been left in the whole district of A chi Baba —nothing except the bare ground, tangled lines, trenches, hidden guns, and thousands of invisible fighters.

BRITISH NOMENCLATURE. BAY NAMED IN AUSTRALASIANS’ HONOR. (Received' July 28, 9.40 p.mq SYDNEY, July 23. A soldier, writing from the Dardanelles, says they named the bay at headquarters “A.tiac” Bay, from “Australian and-Now Zealand Army Corps.” This is the first British name given in Turkey. THE ALLIES’ CAMPAIGN. CANNONADE AT SOUCTTEZ. ARRAS TWICE BOMBARDED. GERMAN GENERAL KILLED. (Received 1 July 28, 10.20 p.m.) ‘ PARIS, July 28. Official: There is an intense cannonade on the Souchez sector, and Arras was twice bombarded. A. fire broke out, but was extinguished. One civilian was killed. We have completed the conquest of the heights of Lingekopf and Barrenkopf. dominating the princinal valley of the Fech and also the main road at Notre Dame Do Strossepis. We took several hundred prisoners. Prisoners report that a shell kilied General Von Zeppert • when visiting the trenches at La Fonten die.

THE SEA WOLVES. NORWEGIAN STEAMER SEIZED. (Received July 28, 10 p.m.) Copenhagen reports that the Germans have taken into Cuxhavon the Norwegian steamer Anvers, timberladen, from Fredcrikstad’ to England. THE CEYLON RIOTS. QUESTIONS IN THE HOUSE. (Received July 28, 3.10 p.m.) LONDON, July 28. Mr. Bonar Law, in the House of Commons, said he was unaware whether the death sentences on the Ceylon rioters had been carried out. Several villages ware required to pay compensation. There was no evidence of German intrigue, but personally he believed it possible. GERMANY’S RECRUITS. NEW CLASS CALLED UP. (Received' July 28. 10 p.m.) COPENHAGEN, July 28. All the men in Schleswig between 39 and 50 with no previous servioeHiave been called up at two hours’ notice. “READY, AYE READY I” A VISIT TO THE GRAND FLEET. SPLENDID SPIRIT OF COMR ADESHIP. (Received July 28, 10 p.m.) LONDON, July 28. The Archbishop of York, giving iKis experiences during a ten days’ visyt to the Grand Fleet, says: “It seemed as if the-war had written one word on every ship, on every part of her, on cvery_ man within her. That word was “Ready!” I was deeply impressed with the splendid spirit of comradeship and unity building up the dept,”