Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1915-03-12
TURK FLEET FLIES
FROM wDARDANELLES
Sultan Reported In Flight From
Constantinople.
oNYl TWO FORTS ARE INTACT
Travellers From the Capital Describe
Conditions az Most serlous-Min-
listers Seek Peace to Avoid
Bombardment Of City.

Athens, March S~.-According TO o
report which has reached here the sui
tan has already left Constantinople
and panic is reigning among the young
Turks, whose leaders are preparing to
leave the city also before it becomes
too dangerous to remain.
1t Ia generally supposed that the re-
ported return Of Enver Pasha to his
command in the Caucasus and the de-
parture of Djemal Pasha for Berlin are
both ruses intended to cover their
timely departure from the coming
storm.
Great unrest seems to. prevail
through all STEAMBOAT, particularly
among the lower classes of the pop
ulation.
Travellers from Constantinople de-
scribe the situation in the capital as
most serious. A number of ministers
there are said to be urgently desir-
Gus OF concluding peace in order to
save the city from a b~ombardment
by the warships of the allies, which
is generally regarded as inevitable.
Public opinion is at fever heat and a
revolution is feared.
Turk Fleet FIees.
London, March 5.-The Turkish
feet, assigned to give battle to the
Anglo-French warships inside the Oar
danelles, has fed at the approach of
the allied war squadron, according to
Athens dispatches.
While a heavy fog hung over the
strait the Turkish war craft lifted
anchor and steamed silently out OF
Niagara road and into the Sea of Mar.
mora. With the lifting of the mist al
lied aviators reported not a single
Turkish var vessel in the strait, and
accommodating flights far up Marmora
sea failed to reveal their whereabouts
The Turk feet is believed to have
withdrawn to the very approaches Of
Constantinople, prepared to pass the
Bosporus and enter the Black sea il
the Ottoman capital falls.
Turkish aviators few over the al
lied feet all day Sunday, and the re
port they made of the strength of the
bombarding forces is believed to have
caused a precipitate retreat.
The allied fleets resumed their bonn
bardment of the inner forts of, the
Dardanelles, according to a dispatch
received by Reater's from it's CORE
spondent at Athens.
The text of the dispatch follows:
1.-THE b~ombardment of the inne
forts Of the Dardanelles was resume,
Thursday morning. Ten big warship
took part in the operations. Accord
ing to a British officer only two of tn
Turkish forts remain intact. Allie
landing parties found the charred re
mains of soldiers in the damaged forts
showing the Turks had burned thei
dead before ~evacuating these posi
tons"
Only British ~battleships participate
In the bombardment, according to
dispatch from Amsterdam. The Frenc.
ships are declared to have kept off at
safe distance from the flying shells
the forts.
"ReaI Fighting Has Not Begun"
Berlin, March s (wire1ess via Sa,
ville).-The evening papers declar
that only Notifications On the Dardt
nelles, which are the Oldest In Turke,
have been damaged. They state tha
the Franco-British ships have not ye
reached the line of the Dardanelle
where the modern Notifications al
and where movement of vessels wi
!, be impossible.
1.-THE real fighting" they say. "hs
not begun"