The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-03-10
ALLIES LOSS IN
FORCING STRAIT
ONLY % KILLED
Wounded %. Missing ;. Says
Admiralty Statement
on Operations.
TT RkISH POR
OFFICIALLY DENIED

TPe'ff "Nfc F''VUtfh ~ Nm I
LONDON, March 9.-The Admiralty
replied tonight to Turkish and Ger
man assertions that several OF the ships
OF the Anglo French fleet at the Darda-
nclles had been badly damaged and that
severe losses had been inflicted upon the
attacking force. The Admiralty issued
= statement which says that up to
March 4 the losses in the fleet were
tUenty-three men killed. twenty-eight
DUNDEE and three missing. most OF
these being marines The present bonn
bardmcnt began on February 10.
The small extent Of the British clsu-
alties is held TO show that the marks
manshIp of the Turkish gunners has
been poor. that the battleships have out
ranged the forts on almos, every oc-
casion and hat even when the fighting
begins at close quarters the sacrifice
which the fleet viii have to make In
forcing the passage will not be nearly as
great as was at first anticipated.
The hombardment of the strait con-
tinued to-day. but the results OF the
C~annonading have not yet been reported
to the Admiralty. although unofficial
~ - -Nbi'lF WI iNpAiit say NiliA
the operations took their usual course
and that the Turkish defences suffered
further severe damage.
While the Anglo French ships are
hammering away at the Dardanelles the
Russian Black Sea fleet is now drawing
close enough to the Bosporus to render
material. II indirect, assistance in the
s~ubjugation of the Turkish capital.
Compelled 10 protect themselves on both
east and west, the Turks seem to he sore
hcset. To ward of the Russian blow
they will he compelled to withdraw some
Of their troops from the Dardanelles
which will, OF course. render the forcing
of that ~passageway easier. A despatch
from Petrograd tonight SAYS that the
Russian public is much pleased with the
part its warships are taking. and adds:
Great satisfaction Is expressed in Of
fcial quarters over the bombardment by
the Russian fleet OF ZunguIdiak. which
has been the chief coal supply station
for Constantinople and the Turkish navy.
The Russian public Is following the Oar
danelles operations with the closest at
tention. but has been feeling IA little on,
IN the cold. wishing Russians were taxi
Ing a more prominent part. They are
now content. for the Russian navy does
not intend to be "A spectator and can play
n most useful part in attacking the
BLACK Sea end Of the Rosporus while
the Anglo-French fleet continues to bonn
bard the Dardanelles.
The severe damage done 10 the
CotlinG station is q most useful achieve
m'nt and ~ a promise OF more to come"
The Russian feet has now reached a
rpint about 100 miles from the Black
Sea end Of the Bosporus. To-day it
was off Benderegli, forty miles west
OF Iunguldiak, and was proceeding
rapidly. The only damage sustained
bv the Russian ships in destroying the
coal station was when a 4 inch shell
struck the Almaz. a cruiser. Three
sailors We're wounded. but the ships
machinery was not injured
Londo newspapers use a despatch
sent out from Berlin to-day as basis
for the contention that the Germans
are more worried about the ia rdauellcs
situation than they will admit This
despatch says that a message f,om
Rome reports that an Italian steamship
encountered twenty French transports
near Malta headed toward the strait
with French troops F.nglisu critics
assert that Germany is preparing her
people for the shock which the fall ~
Constantinople will produce by trying
10 show that tn" Allies had an over
whelming force there.
A Copenhagen despatch to the Daily
Chronicle says it is emi-otti,iall an
nounced in Berlin that panic reigns In
C~onstantinople.
Enver Pasha. the leader OF the Young
Turk party COMMITTEE Of Union and
Progressb, Who is regarded as chiefly
responsible for the entry of Turkey into
the war. has, il is reported, hurried TO
Berlin for "A secret conference Wit
Emperor William and the member OF
the German General STAR in regard to
the D~ardanelles
II is m that some desperate
ntn IN p.Iap tn :. ~. Con q NJ manila