The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1915-03-13
ATTACK TURKS
FROM TWO SIDES
French Fleets Fire on Forts
From Sea and British
From Straits.
HAVE WRECKED 40 FORT GUNS
Relays of 5attIeships Keep Up Con-
tinuous Bombardment of Defenses
in Standardization Com
munications Cut Off.

London, March 5.-Relays of battle
ships keep up an almost continuous
bombardment against the Dardanelles
forts. They have cleared the outer
straits and are now attacking the
forts while line the narrows and
which are considered the most difficult
to deal with.
The destruction of what the British
admiralty calls Fort No. was neces-
sary operation before the warships
could move further into the straits, as
it was this fort which was designed
to protect one of the mine depots of
the DardanelIes. 1t was built at the
waters edge on the European side OPP
posite Cape Kephez.
More important still is the work be-
ing carried out by the French ships
in bombarding from the sea the Saros-
Bulair line of forts which stretches
across the peninsula of Gallipo1i at a
point where it is only three miles wide.
Communications Cut Off.
So long as the guns of the warships
command this neck of land, communi-
cations between the forts on the Euro
pean side of the straits and Constan-
tinOple are cut off.
One of the most welcome effects of
the bombardment, so far as England
is concerned, is the reduction in the
price of wheat, which sold today in
the Bristol market at from 90 to 5S
shillings a quarter, as compared with
so shiIlings and more less than a fort
night ago.
The British Statement.
The British admiralty issued state
ment saying that the attack upon the
fortress in the Dardanelles continued
Wednesday, The admiralty has not
yet reported on the results obtained
within the straits
Outside the Dublin demolished an
observation station on the GaIlipoli
peninsula and the Sapphire lombard
ed guns and troops at various points
in the Gulf of Adramyti.
Forty Guns Destroyed.
Six modern field guns at Fort 'B''
have been destroyed, bringing the
total up to forty.
French battIeships bombarded the
Bulair forts and wrecked the KAYAK
bridge.
More Forts siIenced.
London, March According to dis
patches received here from Mytilene
and TenedOs islands, says Reuters
Athens correspondent, the allied fleet
has destroyed the batteries of Kilid
Bahr, and Banakale and arrived near
Dardanelles.
There are over 100000 Turks on the
GallipoH coast under Issad Pasha. The
village of Yenishahr is reported to
have been destroyed by fire.
The ombardment was resumed this
morning at 10 o'clock when fifty-two
ships entered the straits. Four battle
ships bombarded the Turkish positions
on the Gulf of Saros. At noon the
Smelling was redoubled in violence for
two hours. The results are not yet
| known
Allied detachments, which landed at
Kun Kale, on the Asiatic side of the
strait at the entrance to the Darda-
nelIes, met and dispersed the Turkish
| garrison.
Yenishahr 6ombarded.
A Constantinople dispatch dated
March ?, received by the Reuter- Tele-
| gram Company by way of Amsterdam,
confirms the announcement that some
! Of the forts on the European side of
the DardaneIles have suffered severely
! by the fire of the allied battleships.
Ships Outrange Forts.
The British battleships, says this
I dispatch, completely outranged the
! forts, the guns of which were unable
| to reply effectively, so that the battle
| ships gained part of the desired eff
/ fects. Moreover, the fleet has received
| reinfoTcements and now more than
! forty big battleships are lying OF the
Dardanelles, besides a great number
| of small cruisers, torpedo boat de-
| stroyers and other craft
Hard Fighting in GaIicia.
London, March An their determi-
nation to relieve Przemysl and drive
| the Russians out of Galicia, the Austro-
| German armies, which for some weeks
have been on the Galician side of the
Carpathian mountains, have in the
last few days made repeated attempts
to break through the Russian intrench-
uIents, but without success.