New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-08-03
ALLIES TRIUMPHS
MYTHS, SAY TURKS
Claims Scoffed at in State
ment Given Out Here
by Embassy.
MUSCOVITE INTRIGUE
AND SOLDIERS "FAIL"
Dardanelles Campaign by Land
and Sea Called Fizzle-Says
Censor DistOrts Reports.

The Allies are not as successful IN
the Dardanelles campaign as the Of
fetal reports would indicate, according
to a statement issued yesterday by the
Turkish Embassy at Washington
through Shah Mir, the vice-consul at
New York
The statement is issued, the vice
consul stated, to correct the erron-
eous impression created by the Allies,
and the distorting Of the official Turkish
dispatches by the British censor. 1t is
as follows:
"In their statements with regard to
the operations in the Dardanelles the
Allies are constantly giving out glow
ign narratives of victories and forward
marches. If their pretentious claims
were really true, they should have
reached Constantinople long ago. The
actual facts are quite at variance.
"On April 25 they landed in two
places, Avi-Bournu and Seddul-Bahr.
The objective of the first landing corps
was Maidos, at a distance of eight
kilometres. and that of the second
Krithia. A..
Now, the Allies on the side of Avi,
Bournu never have been able 10 proceed
further than one kilometre from the
shore, and on the other side they are
being checked at a distance OF three
and half kilometres from krithla.
Their failure at Seddul- Bahr is so much
the more striking because this place
being situated at the extremity OF the
Galipolis Peninsula is from three sides
EXPOSED 10 the converglng nre OF the
Allied wsrships.
THE ridiculous descriptions lavishly
spread concerning the situation IN Con
stantinople, the state of panic wnicn
reigns there, the consplracles when
are formed and the like, are only the
EXPRESSION of the Allies Jealous wishes.
All those impartial foreigners who have
travelled throughout Europe are unanl-
nous in declaring that Constantnople
is the capital where food prices are VIZ
tually normal. .,,.
THE accounts from the Allies, and
especially those issued through the
Athens agency. entirely devoted 10 the
interests of the Allies, are meant TO
give the impression that the western
coast of Asia Minor. and Smyrna above
all. is the theatre OF military opera
tion in which the Allies are scoring un-
told advantages Now, as matter OF
fact. not a single Allied soldier has
landed on the Asia Minor coast, and
the only military operations consist IN
having fred a few explosive shells
without any result.
"The naval operations in Syria, so
eulogized especially by the French
nress. are the most rueful spectacles
If this war. The activity OF the
enemv's warships has been concen..
trated particularly against the huts OF
inoffensiye peasants, as we'll as tsher.
mons boats. whose humble loads OF
nrovieions arc seized by the allied
crows AS trophies of their exploits.
an Mesopotamia the English. using
tbeir craft as means of conveyance
ON the Shatt-El-Arab as far as Koruna,
have come to standstill against the
defences laid out by the Ottoman Gen
eral staff. Thus the hope of winning
over the Arab tribes has been trus-
trated. These tribes have proved
formidable adversaries in harassing
the communication of the invaders
and multiplying all their plans OF for
ward march.
I'm the Caucasus the Muscovite plan
10 pour Russian armies as an ava
lanche over Asia Minor has ptlfully
collapsed, and, on the contrary, the
Turkish troops are fighting on Russian
territory. In the plains of Sary- KAN
ysh and Kars, on the most difficult
grounds and in the proximity OF the
Russian bases, in the face Of the fall
ure Of their military operations the
Russians have reverted to their usual
tactics of fomenting uprisings among
the Ottoman populations. Their vic,
tins have been Armenian peasants, and
the result has been the seditious move
ment of Bach -Kalch and Van.
The Ottoman government has sup
pressed these movements with much
celebrity"