The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1915-05-01
British Say Troops Advance
Some Distance Towards
Narrows.
ASIATIc SIDE IS
CLEARED OF TURKS
Misleading Of Dispatch
Causes Report Germans
Had Bombarded Dunkirk

~ ASSOCIATED F4%tA@1.
London. April so.--Ths oeselal state
raeat Tonight SAYS that srEsr serious
nEhtlng and stubborn Turkish resist
amer. the British troops established on
GaIupoH peninsula haze advanced
some distance toward the nardanens
narrewa while The French have
cleared Cape Kumkalsh. % the Aaissie
Size 81 TURKS
Ii ID said the second and aoat go
rions attempt 60 force the rSardanellea
q now fairly launched omcerea by
vermans The Turks resisted stubborn
H and tire British losl heavily.
The allied feet covered the troop
handing. howhnrded TIE forts and pre-
eented renforremanta reaching enc
~Turka The Brltieh battlesnip Queen
Elisabeth sank a Turkish troop ship.
TIE official account aays the allies
to0k ahoul eve hundred prisoners
IRE misreaalnw 81 . Frencn state
ment today raueed the report thar the
German feet was Out and had bonn
h11od Dunkirk. France 10 was later
discovered shat the Germans had
brought q land ngn within range. Aired
into Dunkrk killed twenty and
sounded f0rtv-hve ~ n1so was re-
ported the German feet had been seen
on the Belgian coast THIS 50 doubt
1ul because British warsnipa bonn
burded zeebruggs last night and TO-
eay
r r. announced from the east that
German cavalry. rircllnr tne Russian
frr ssfH.
Toar NenpelinH were reported over
Loweetoft in suffolk tonight The r.
ports were not confirmed
FORTS ARE DAMAGED.
Serious damage 20 the Turkish for
uHcafians resulted from tne lombard
rnent ~ IA allied aeet which wac car
riea out simultaneously with the lan@-
tuF oE tfuepa 81 the narnanaiies Mon-
day. according e. the chronleie's cor-
respondent
~The hombsrdmeat grew tsFriHc
Shout midday saws the dispatch
NBrMah and French ships were clearly
Visible from the entrance 70 the straits.
The largest warahins lay a. the en-
trance near che European SIDE Others
e Erenksu bay ared heavily o. Kahd
Hahr ard ere mountains beyond IN
ina distance several ships discovered
tha Gre 81 the large units on the Cha
nak and Kaila nahr forta.
The noise of the guns was con-
tfnuous the discharges frequently
hing twenty s minufe.
Away 90 the left stretched TIRE lire
af Transports which effected landings
late in the aaefuoon en- the coasts
opposite end on ths peninsula
The effect e the naval lombard
meut evidently vac severe. Tall cel-
amus 81 smoke and ERE we're seen on
the heights above eeddul Bahr. Nep-
hen point. and Chauah BY TIRES
6eteck the seadul Bahr fort seemed
utterly Knocked % pieces. and the hat
Hashlns moved further. ind1carn9 that
Al serious opposition on tne shores
50 te tne narrows. bad been definitely
hntfcred down
PROVIDED DIVERSION.
shortly after 6 o'eluck the Turks
provided q diversion az Care Hallsa
where tba alliee had landed e battery
a Turkish battery came into sight
moving into position "a attack this
landing force. bggt before Tire Turks
could open ere. ama 80 the warships
turned is attention ta rhem and found
the range at fhe Hraf shot hnrFina TIA
battery ln q cloud ~ daat The second
Shelf burst q the mtast - the gun
Nnrs Nevertheless tho Turks stooG
- their Eanu and managed 90 IRE
Athrea Ineffective shots before seven
Nuceeaalvo homhs dropped by airahlpa
Miped them aut
"A aerce artillery duel took place q
o'clock hefweeu forces which had
lauaea and Turks posted On ths helghts
beyond Esdxi Hiaarlik. a great British
hmtllenhip cama in close 60 shore ca
assist the batteries 90 the LANDING
force a.. slienced those ~ che Turks
The net result ~ the operations q
that ere alice Gre 81 com iete posses
stem ~ ere tlp % fha Gallp0n pen-
Ursula and the aat shores ~ suvla
hay ten nailes rom the naFrowa on
TIE opposite side 81 TIE peninsula
Coed progress also has been made to-
warsn reduction ~ tha forts On o.,
narrumHn