Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1915-03-12
SMYRNA AGAIN
BOMBARDED BY
BRITISH FLEET
Non-Combatants Flee After
Commander Refuses to Sur
render City.

BY the United Press.
LONDON, March 12.-The Turkish
commander Of Smyrna has refused
demand for surrender. Rear Ad-
miral Peirse's squadron after a
twenty-four hour truce has resumed
shelling the port.
This message was received here
from Athens today. Dispatches to
Athens from Tenedos Island said the
boom of the warships' guns off
Smyrna could be heard plainly there.
Dispatches received at Tenedos said
that the British squadron, having
reduced the outer forts. was Smelling
the Turkish batteries from inside the
harbor ~
The British squadron commander
gave the Turkish military governor
twenty-four hours in which to hurry
non-combatants out of town. Couriers
sped over the city spreading the
news and within a few hours all
the civilian residents who had not
fed to the hills at the beginning of
the bombardment were moving in a
panicky procession toward the
smyrna-constantinople railway.
| Expeditionary Force to Turkey.
! For the first time since the Dar-
danelles operations and the lombard
ment of Smyrna began the French
! war office has admitted that an ex-
penditionary force is enroute to
s.rnzl<ey. In dispatch received from
Paris early today it Was officially
announced such an army is on its
way to Levant.
General D'Ammade. commander Of
| the French forces in Morocco. will
assume command, it was announced.
The French war Office did not state at
which point these troops viii be land
ed but it was assumed here that they
would disembar11 on the Asia Minor
shore near the Dardanelles entrance.
British troops and possibly some of
the Australians at the Suez canal are
aboard transports bound for the
Dardanelles, 1t was unofficially re-
ported.
The official statement from Paris
declared that troops other than
native Algerians and those from
France" make up the expedition.
BY the Associated Press.
CONSTAN NOPLE, Monday
March s, via Berlin and London.
March Il, 12:10 p. m.-The fire Of
British warships on Turkish positions
in the Dardanelles has been we'll
directed on the whole, but at times
inefficacious. The Turks, on their
side. have shown a fair degree of ac-
curacy in their craftsmanship, and
have compelled British vessels to ex-
ercise great caution in approaching
| their batteries.
A correspondent of the Associated
Press witnessed the bombardment Of
March directed against the posi-
tions of Kalid Bahr, on the European
| side of the straits. He could see the
| fire of either side, and note how all
the shots fell The vessels engaged
were British ships of the Agamemnon
eype. The firing started at 1850 a.
m. andl asted until 4:25 p. m, when
| the Brish withdrew. Their fire had
been rather scattered. Some Of 1t
was directed against Dardanus and
other points on the European side of
the straits, and the material damage
inflicted was only slight.
At Kilid Bahr the British fire was
well-directed on the whole. but 1t was
not effective. OF about thirty heavy
shells ten fell close to the Turkish
batteries, while the others mostly fell
4 short. Many of them struck at the
waters edge. A certain British ves-
sci which ventured within range of
the Kilid Bahr batteries was sub
jected to a well-aimed fire from them.
She retreated hastily.
Turks Fire Accurate.
The vicinity of these particular
batteries was then avoided for the
rest of the day. Later in the after
noon two other British vessels came
within range of a hidden Turkish
battery and had narrow escapes from
the shore fire. During all the after
noon the British vessels inside the
straits were obliged to maneuver act
lively, because as soon as any one of
them stopped 1t invariably drew a
fairly active Turkish fire. 1t was evil
dent that the British were exercising
the greatest caution.
| At about a quarter before 4 in the
afternoon several hydroplanes of the
allies appeared and made a recon-
noissance. To the observers 1t was
apparent that they dropped bombs on
straits The airships retired when
fred upon.
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