The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-03-20

of the battleship Bouvet have been saved,
confirms reports from neutral sources that
the French battleships Gaulois also sui
fcred severely in the battle of March Is.
While Turkish official reports minimize
the effect of the bombardment and declare
that Constantinople is not afraid intelli-
gence received from other near eastern
points sets forth that negotiations have
already been begun with the American
embassy to ask as an intermediary to
save the Ottomon capital from the guns of
the allied warships
Rumors of the destruction of the Ger
man sea raider Karlsruhe have received
some confirmation by the guarded state
| ment of the British admiralty that there
Is every reason to believe that this cruiser
was sunk in the West Indies in the begin
ming of November
Relative inaction prevails along both
battle fronts in Europe, which again seem
/ to have relapsed into the condition OF
siege warfare, which prevailed during the
winter.
Neither side reports any action on the
Western front during the past week
worthy to rank as important
Three Battleahips Sunk.
In addition to the sinking Of the
French battleship Bouvet. announced
in the press dispatches yesterday, two
other serious losses have been sustain
ed by the allied fleets at the Dardan-
Giles, the British battleships. IF
resistible and Ocean, having suffered
i the same fate as the Bouvet. having
been blown mp and sunk by floating
mines Thursday, while engaged with
seven other warships in attacking the
forts in the narrows of the Dardanelles
The British battle-cruiser Inhexible
and the French battleship Gaulois also
were hit by shells from the Turkish
f forts and damaged.
Practically all the $50 men making
up the complement of the Bouvct went
down with the vessel, which sank with
in three minutes after she fouled til,
, mine, an internal explosion takin:
place aboard the ship.
OF the 1900 men on board the TIVE
a British battleships that were SUM
= few We're lost the crews being trans
ferred to other warships under Il no
fire. The British admiralty remark
that the casualties ''were not heav,
considering the scale of the opera
y tions.'
The waters in which the ships wer
lost had been swept of mines, bu
II Judging from the admiralty repor
other mines, set adrift by the Turk
- foated down with the current an
caused the disaster among the allie
ships gathered inside the entrance +
the Dardanelles
In it's official account of the opert
4 tions, the effect of which upon IL
Z Turkish forts is not known, the a.
4 miralty announces that the battl
/ ships Queen and Implacable are beif
! sent to take the place of the lost We
! sells 1t also chronicles the fact th
u Vice Admiral Garden was succeed,
4 on Tuesday by Rear Admiral de R
beck in command Of the fleet II
n stated reason for Garden 5 rctircme
/ is illness.
4 Operations in the Dardancles a
being continued. It is understood tn
81 the engagement was resumed today.
81 Six battleships re-entered the Df
;@ danelles Friday, according to
81 spatch received here from the Reut
81 Telegram company late today. This
I sumption Of the action after the l.
M Thursday of the French battleship b,
s vet and the British battleships Irrisis
Sa bic and Ocean, failed to accompl
s anything for the reason that unfayo
" BILE weather conditions made operate
ssN impossible.