Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-08-25
RUSS AIRMEN B0MBARD
SUBURBS NEAR STEAMBOAT
Forty-One Persons Are Killed or
Wounded on Asiatic Side of
the Bosporus.
Won SANDERS NOT WORRIED
Field Marshal Commanding Turks
Feels Equal to Meeting Even
an Increased Number
of Allies.

PARIS. August IS, 40 PM
y French official report on fight
ing at the Dardanelles, between
August 20 and the morning of
August IS. relates that the British
left wing has made progress
against the Turks, occupying 500
wards of Turkish trenches in the
northern zone OF the fighting, and
that a French aviator August 20
was successful in sending to the
bottom large Turkish transport.
British Make Progress.
The statement as given out by the
French war Office this afternoon reads:
suance of the last communication on the
Dardanelles has been marked in the
northern zone by further progress on
the part of the British left wing
These British troops have occupied 500
yards of enemy trenches. In the
southern zone the operations have been
limited to artillery actions and to
fighting between patrols.
French Surprise Enemy.
During the night of August 1924 a
French company was successful in
surprise attack on Turkish position
used by the enemy for listening pur-
poses. In the morning of August %
detachment of Turkish soldiers en-
deavored to reoccupy this position, but
they were repulsed.
August 20 our squadron bombarded
with success a point of debarkment at
Acbachiliman, on the European side Of
the strait to the north of Niagara. In
. spite of the violent fire of numerous
hostile batteries one of our aviators
was successful in sinking, at its an
chorage, a large Turkish transport
Constantinople Is Bombarded.
LONDON. August %. 1910 pm
Rombardment of the outskirts of Con-
stantinople by Russian aeroplane
squadron, resulting in the death or in
Jury of forty-one persons, is announced
in a dispatch from Athens to the Gen.
trail News.
According to these advices, the at
tacl. was made Monday on the Asiatic
suburbs of Constantnople. number
OF bombs were dropped. throwing the
people into panic. Thirty Turks, eight
Greeks and three Armenians were kill
ed or wounded.
The population of Constantinople
considers the situation grave, accord
ng to information received at Sofia
bulgaria. says a Reuter- dispatch Vio-
lent lighting has been in progress on
the GalIpoli peninsula for the past
week. and it is declared thousands of
wounded are arriving every day at
Constantinople. AT the same time thou
sands of fresh troops are being sent to
the Dardanelles front. The scarcity of
bread and coal is said to have added to
the general feeling of depression.
Fails to Report Victories.
4 long dispatch from the British
press representative in the DardanelIes
was issued today. 1t is dated August
II and gives numerous details of the
landing in Suvla bay and the diversion
provided by the Australian forces on
the Anzac cove as reported in Cen Sir
Ian Hamiltons dispatch of August 10
While abounding in testimony as ~
the valor of the British forces and the
fierceness and stubbornness of the long
nght1ng, this dispatch fails TO support
recent reports of sweeping allied sue
cesses on the Gallipoli peninsula. and
the real conclusion to be drawn from
II is that the position has undergone no
material change for the better
Turks Not Disheartened.
TURKISH HEADQUARTERS ON THE,
GALLIPoLI PENINSULA. Monday, Au-
gust %, via London, August a5-Abso-
lutte confidence in the Turkish troops
and their ability to hold the penin-
Snla oh bar
ments arrive, was expressed today bv
the commander of the fifth army. Field
Marshal Liman Won Sanders Pasha in
an interview with the Associated Press.
Field Marshal Won Sanders remarks
were punctuated by the crashing nearby
of exploding shells. His praise of the
Turkish soldier was unstinted
Bravery and frugality and physical
and mental stamina" said the pasha,
make the Turk an antagonist really
to be feared. as our enemies already
have discovered. As result we are
giving, even should the enemy in
crease
Won by Naval Guns.
''The allies" the pasha continued.
'.have been here four months less three
days. During that time they have ac-
complished only what their preponder-
ance in naval artillery made it lm-
possible for us to prevent. Unfortu-
nately Turkey has no navy powerful
enough to discount that. but that also
means the allies are unable to operate
successfully beyond the reach of their
ships gunfire.
What ground the allies have they
hold by virtue of their naval gunfire
Superiority. Let the allies go beyond
the range of their guns5 and their
troops depend entirely upon themselves
and they will discover what real war
s upon the peninsula 1 repeat that
We have every reason for viewing the
future without worry"