The Sentinel=record., 1915-02-26
WARSHlPS DESTROY TURKEYS FORTS AT THE ENTRANCE TO
 DARDANELLES.
SHIPS WORKED AT LONG RANGE
Next Attack Will Be on the Straits Which Connect the Sea of Mar mora With the Black Sea-With
 These Taken Constantinople Falls.

London Feb. 25 0HidnighD. All i the tcrts at the entrance of the Oar. 1 daneles have been reduced by the
 allied feet. This announcement was made officially tonig!.e.
 Almost simultaneously with the dec ! la.ation in the house of commons of me British foreign secretary that Great Britain is in entire accord with hussia's desire for access to the open sea comes the announcement by the British admiralty that all the forts at the entrance to the Dardanelles have been reduced
 For several days the allied British and French eet has been pounding at these forts, which constituted the greatest obstacle to passage of the l straits. Within the -trats and in the sea of Marmora are other fortifica- tions, but these are believed to be
 of a weaker structure The official
 statement says that the operations
 are proceeding and that after a period | of long range fire the warships at | tackled a close rang~
 The straits are guar1ei al by ines Of mines believed to number at | least seven It was under some of | these lines that the British subma- ! rine B-11, iu command of Lieutenant Commander Ho.borok. diyeI last De
 celnher and torpedoad the Turkish t3ttleship Mesudiel Recently the Turks, fearing the entrance of the al- lied feet into the sea Of Marmora, sent troops and heavy artillery to all the isla uds in that water If once they force the straits the British and French watships, wlich 1 are thought to number between 30
 and 10, would likely attempt a land |
 ing with a subsequent march on con- | stantmope
 The BosphOrus the marrow strait |
 about IS miles in length. which con meets the Black sea with the Sea Qf | Matmora is also strongly fortified | end it is through this strait that the ! B ack sea fleet of Russia would have | to cCme in order to reach the open.
 Within the boundaries of the Black | ca powerful Russian fleet has beeE bottled up, together with hundreds of l
 steamers. which might be used for 1 transport purposes if Russia deemed ! that desirable. Furthermore. should | tle allied fleet be succes fuf in the | present undertaking, Russia would be
 er1bled 10 release millions of bushels l
 of wheat Sir Edward Grey's statement in the | house of commons is ia consonancl | w.th the utterance of the Russian | premier NJ. GOremykin. in the duma | on February 9, that 'The radiant fu- 1 ure of the Russians on the B ack sea | is beginning 10 show 4ear the walls of | Constantinople. and that of the Rus | san foreien minister, M. SaZonoI, | who said that the events ol the | EIsso-TurlNsh frontier would bring | 1 Russia to a nearer realization of the 1 practical and economical problems | bcund up with the question of Rus !
 sia's access to the open sea. |. The British cabinet has under con | sideration the suggestion made by | the United States informally to Great 1 | Britain and Germany that all mine De removed from the high seas eXce2t l l those necessary for the protection Of 1 Aarbors and coast defe .ses, tElt 2 1 | pan be devised for the distribution O l foodstulfs to the civilian population of Germany and the abandonment by | Germany of the submarine warfare 1 on merchant ships. The cabinet has
 taken no action but it is understood !
 that a rep will he ready in a fe" days In the meantime merchant ships
 are being sunk by mines and torpe' l does, and the American secretary ot the treasury has issued an order
 whereby all ports in the British Isles have been made special ports requir-
 ing special rates of war risk insur-
 ance from the government bureau, and the special port zone on the con tinent is made to include Bordeaux. Berlin reports the capture of Przas- nysz an important town to the north of Warsaw There the Germans took ] 10000 Russian prisoners and it is be- | lieved that their intention is to march
 against the Polish capital from the
 north
 | Russia officially declares that tho