New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-05-01
ThrOwLineS from Sea
to Straits at Each
End of Strip.
BERLIN ADMITS
ATTACK BY SEA.
Town of Gaflipoli Report
ed by Athens as Capt
ured by Allies.
FRENCH CLEAR CAPE
FRENCH CLEAR CAPE
Advance In Aslatic Promontory
London Official Declares
English Losses Heavy.

after series or violent engagements
extending from the Egean Sea 70 the
Dsrdanelles Strait, have driven the
Turks from the end Of the Gallipoli
Peninsula as far as Krithia. five miles
from the tip, while the French. on the
Asiatic side. have cleared Kun Kaleh
Cape of the opposing force, according
TO a detailed official statement issued
tonight by the British War Office. A
column Of Australian and New Zealand
forces twenty miles up the seaeoast, at
Sari Bair, the statement says, are
pushing forward toward the strait,
overcoming a desperate resistance By
the Turks.
An unofficial dispatch from Athens
says that the Allies have captured the
city OF Gallipoli. at the entrance Of the
Sea of Marmors. That the Allies have
crossed the peninsula and attacked this
strategic position Is admitted in to-
days Official bulletin Of the German
General Staff, which states that the
Turks at this point fought uninter-
ruptedly for two DAYS against the con-
slant attack of the enemy without
showing fatigue"
Two Lines Across Land.
These reports show that the British
have succeeded in throwing two lines
across the Gallipoli Peninsula, one at
each end OF the long tongue Of land
along the Dardanelles. The northern
line. IL held. would cut of the Turk
ish army from all assistance in the way
Of supplies and reinforcements from
Constantinople.
The Turkish official reports continue
to claim that the Allies are meeting
defeat; that most Of those on the
peninsula and all on the Asiatic side
have been driven off. The French
cruiser Jeanne dare is said 10 have
been set on fire and a British destroyer
sunk.
The Turks, under the guidance OF
their German officers, to-nights official
report says, placed every obstacle in
the way of the invaders, but against
the fire of the allied fleet and the gall
lantry Of the army they were forced TO
fall back. The British forces lost
neaVlly IN the operation.
Six points were selected for the d.
| ings, which commenced at daylight OF
April 25. At five points they were inn
mediately successful, but at the sixth,
ncs- Seddul Bahr. the troops were un-
able 10 advance until the evening. The
Al liaus and New Zealanders land
| ed o. - west coast of the Gallipoli
PENN ,Ila, directly across the country
from INa strongly fortified Narrows.
Column Reaches krithia.
The other British troops disem-
! barket et the extreme end OF the PEN
insuls, and by the 2Sth, when IL was
decid@ TO give the men a rest and time
| to er. Die the positions to be consoli-
dated hey had reached Krithia, which
is on the road running along the pen
! insula. and over which they will join
up with their comrades from the do
minons and attack the forts guarding
the narrows in the rear
The French took possession or Cape
Kun Kaleh after they had previously
attacked toward Yen Shehr, to the
south on the Asia Minor coast
While this was proceeding the heet,
besides covering the landing of the
troops, kept up a bombardment OF the
forts in the Dardanelles and prevented
reinforcements from reaching Turkey
from the Sea Of Marmora. One Turk
ish troopst ip was sunk by the British
battleship Queen Elizabeth, which Is
believed again to have been firing her
big guns across the peninsula, directed
by airmen. The troopship was sunk OF
Maidos, a town well inside the Mar
rows, which later the battleship Tri-
umph bombsrded and set on fire.
Five Hundred Prisoners Taken.
The Official account of the landing Of
the allied troops does not bear out the
over-optimistic reports from Greclan
towns which preceded II and which
mentioned thousands Of prisoners as
having been captured, the total Of men
taken by the Allies being given as 500.
These were cut off by the fire OF the
ships. Neither does the report mention
operations Oft Smyrna or In the Gulf
Of saros against the Bulsir line OF
forts. but il is certain that these points
are being watched 10 prevent rein
forcements reaching the Turks.
The text of the War Once communi-
cation follows:
'The Decentralization of the army in
the Dardanelles began before sunrise
on April 25. Six different beaches were
used, and the operation was covered
by the whole feet.
"The landing was Immediately sue
cessful on FIVE beaches. although IL was
opposed with vigor by strongly in
trenched enemy in successive lines,
which were protected by barbed wire
entanglements, in some places fifty
yards wide, and supported by artillery.
"on the sixth beach. near Seddui
Bahr, the troops could rot advance un-
Ill evening, when a fine attack BY the
British infantry from the direction OF
Cape Tekeh relieved the pressure on
their front. The arrangements for land
in, had beeE concerted in the utmost
detail between the feet and the army.
Coionials Fight Well.
"The result Of the first days oper-
ations was the establishment Of strong
British, Australian and French forces
at three points--nsmeiy, the Australian