Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1915-03-24
TROOPS TO ASSIST
SHIPS IN BATTLE
Allies Prepare to Land Forces
Against Turks.
LARGE ARMY IS NOW READY
Sultan Sends 10000 Soldiers to
Strengthen Garrsons on the OAR
daneIIes-Three More Forts
Are Damaged by Fleet.

| London, March 22.-Land operations
on a grand scale are about to be I'M
dertaken by the British and French
| forces in the Dardanelles.
| Stung by their reverses when the
| battleships Bouvet, Irresistible and
Ocean were sunk, the allies have pre-
pared to strike at the Turks by a
force their way to COnstantinople at
any cost.
Large Army is Ready.
While their plans have been sur
rounded with the greatest secrecy, it
is known that numbers of transports
bearing troops already have been dis
patched to the scene of operations and
that a large army is ready to assail
the Turkish forces under cover of the
terrific fire of the fleets guns.
That the purpose of the allies is un-
derstood in Constantinople is indicated
by reports that 10000 Turks have
been sent to strengthen the garrisons
on the DardanelIes. The Turkish
forces on the coast of the Gulf of
Smyrna also have been REINFORCED un-
til they are said to total $4,000 men.
Kaiser Is Watching.
The German emperor is watching
the course of the action in the Oar
danelles with anxiety, according to an
Amsterdam correspondent of the Elk
change Telegraph company.
"The emperor received david Bey,
the Turkish minister of finance, at
Berlin when the Dardanelles situation
was discussed" says the correspond
ent's dispatch.
In an interview which appeared in
the Berlin papers, david Bey init
mated that the emperor was much
concerned about the possible fate of
Constantinople, not only because of
the tremendous political consequences
which would result, but also on ac-
count of the prosperity which the
forcing of the Dardanelles would bring
to Odessa.
Plans to Check Odessa.
The emperor is quoted as saying:
We cannot allow Odessa to become
another Hamburg"
A Bucharest dispatch to the Daily
Mail declares German staff colonel,
who has arrived from Constantinople,
has admitted that the capital must
fall in few weeks.
British Loss Light.
Except in the case of the Bouvet, of
whose crew only Ga were saved, the
casualties suffered in the lombard.
ment are said to be light The Brit
ish admiralty published the losses
among the officers on the Irresistible,
and although the ship was sunk and
the crew had to be transferred under
hot fire, the list contains the names
of only four officers killed and one Sc
verely wounded
Three Forts Damaged.
Three Turkish forts, kilid Bahr
Namazieh and Chanak, were practical
ly dismantled during Thursdays fight
ing when the Anglo-French feet in the
Dardanelles lost three battleships and
had two others badly damaged.
This information was conveyed here
in dispatches from Athens, which said
that allied aviators accommodating
over the straits made the report to
Rear Admiral de Robeck, command
ing the attacking feet.
Bury Dead at Sea.
Off the entrance to the strait those
warships not undergoing repairs par
ticipated in the ceremonies for the
dead
Including nearly six hundred sailors
who persisted when the Bouvet went to
the bottom and the casualties aboard
the English warships the dead total
nearly seven hundred
Scores of bodies of French sailors,
carried by the swift current flowing
out of the Dardanelles, drifted out of
the strait entrance, according to a
message from the island of Tenedos.
Boats were put out to pick up the
floating bodies in order that they
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