The Cordova daily times., 1915-07-07
TURKISH VIEW IF FIGHTING IN
 STRAITS

MdTHlOTH run NohStnht'uopiN No Gallipoli and Chanak, notwithstand. ing the activity of the British sub marines. Their cargo is mainly war stores and munitions, and anyone who wishes to ship as passengers, whether he be Turk or alien, must have official permission to make the trip.
 The fear of submarines Is very strong among the Turkish sailors, and the steamers bound for the fighting | zone slip away from their docks at odd hours, generally midnight or later with squad of sharpshooters. 12 or mor~ in number, stationed along the rail on both sides of the boat, rifles in hand, straining their eyes out over the waters in search of the enemy. The Sea of Marmora has many DOT poises, and to the excited imagina. ton every porpoise seems sub marine. So the firing Is frequent. The crack of the rifles tends to steady the nerves. however, so that by the time the real danger zone comes into sight the soldiers are quite indifferent to danger, and lounge about the deck with utter contempt TOT the under water enemy.
 A little out of Constantinople the steamers pass the big powder works, | which even in the blackness of night present scene of modern war. Eight | towering chimneys belch forth smoke and flame, and the glare of the lighted windows tell of the struggle going on to keep pace with the demand for munitions.
 Ten hours from Constantinople finds the ship In the broadest part of the Sea of Marmora. and few hours later the peninsula of Gallipoli begins to draw near.
 This section of the country Is far from desolate. Every acre is culti. vated. Roads wind in and out along the shore, and windmills crown the crest of the ridge of Gallipon Wher. ever the sea pushes into the land to form bay, there is little town, busy and prosperous in a Turkish manner of speaking. In every case the salient feature is a sky-piercing minaret. At fixed points along the road, white tented military camps squat against the green landscape.
 l At Gallipoli curious feature Is pro vided by large black and white sign boards erected here and there over many of the buildings of the town These are to indicate neutral prop erty. How the owners hope that the gun:pointers of the ships in the Gull of Saros. many miles away behind tho hills, can see these signs Is not ex plained.
 The fact that several important
 structures here were hit by those sky
 rocketing English shells impelleC
 Enver Pasha to send 25 French ant
 English prisoners from Constant
 nople to be housed in Gallipoli, where
 they subsisted for six days at thu expense of Hoffman Phillip, secretar!
 of the American embassy, who accom- panied them officially.
 A feature of Chanak is the collec ton of cats living in the street of thu Lame Camel. They were gathered
 from various destroyed houses by
 kind-hearted Turk who now feed
 them.
 Chanak is only the shell of a city Beyond the white houses that lin the seafront, there Is nothing, excep
 in the direction of Kilid Bahr, iron
 which 1t is separated by only fey
 hundred yards of water. Only whel
 the visitor actually sees this marrow
 passage, swept by over fifty 8-incl guns mounted 30 feet above the water does the difficulty of attempting t,
 force it. become clear. Every inch O
 the surface of the water is plotted ol the artillery maps in the forts, and i needs but an instant's calculation t, get the exact range of any ships enter
 Ing the zone.
 Two thousand shells per hour fel
 in Chanak during one of the lombard
 ments by the British fleet, but tn
 casualties in the forts were only 2
 killed and 50 wounded. The damag
 to the forts was not serious. This i , proof enough that the problem of at tacking land Notifications with ships even when they are armed with tn most powerful guns, still leaves heavy margin of advantage with tn forts.
 k1 Admiral von Usedom, the Germa commander, is a gentleman with kindly eye End courteous manner