Evening journal., 1915-08-05
MANY TURK ships
SUNK BY british
IN NARNORA SEA
English Submarines Burrow
Beneath Mines in Darda-
nelles and Spread Death
REPORT REIGN OF Terror
AT CONSTANTINOPLE
BY HENRY WOOD
United Press Staff Correspondent.

United Press Staff Correspondent.
BRUSA, Asiatic Turkey. July "a
CBy Courier TO Dedeagatch. Bulgaria.
and thence by Cable.) Daring Eng
lish submarine commanders. by bur
rowing beneath the thickly mined
waters of the Dardanelles and eluding
the Turkish fleet. have created
reign of terror from the western en-
trance to the Sea of Marmora to the
very gates OF Constantinople.
Exactly how many Turkish ships
have been sent TO the bottom by Brit
ish submersibles probably is known
only TO the Turkish ministry Of mar
line. The undersea craft have been
particularly successful in striking at
Turkish transports. En- route here
from Constantinople / learned that
aboard one of those sunk recently
were 500 wounded Turks who had
Just been discharged from CONSTANT
nople hospitals and were returning
TO the Gallipoli front. Only $50 we're
saved. The news was suppressed by
the Turkish government, but the dis
aster occurred in full view Of another
transport laden with wounded SOL
diers who made the fact known.
Brusa is the city in Asiatic Turkey
10 which II was proposed to move
the Turkish capital in case CONSTANT
nople was threatened. / came here
first on tho Friday boat OF the three
times a week service from Con-
stantinople across the Sea OF Mar
mora. A few days previous the boat
from the Brusa TO Constantinople had
actually been stopped and boarded
by officers from a British submarine
within a few miles OF Islam's capital
The British officers we're loking fol
Turkish soldiers. They found none
but took off what food supplies there
we're aboard. paying for them in Eng
lish gold, and saluting courteously n
they left the ship
Because of the fear inspired b
this visit our boat left the Bosphoru
with the life boats swung out an
with hundreds of life preservor
hanging over the rail sready for In
stant use. Instead OF heading di
recfly across the of Marmora
the usual course, we crept along III
coast for the entire distance. neve
getting more than 200 or 300 yard
!
On the following Monday no NOR
submarines having been sighted, th'
captain took courage and we heade,
directly across the little sea on thl
return to Constantinople. Peasants
and provincial officials aboard the
boat did not share the captains op
timism and we had scarcely left The
last protecting point of land when I
shout rang out from the bridge Tit
signal bells changed; the boat turne'
tail and fed for shore and there wal
a wild scurry for life-belts.
The excitement lasted only a mo
ment There were countermandinl
orders from the bridge and we re
sumed our course. Two miles of Il
the left a porpoise had leaped from
the water. The imagination of an of
ficer. who thought he saw a sumbar
inc periscope, did the rest / foun'
the same feeling of uneasiness on m.
second trip here.
Farther south, In the Sea of Mar
mora, where transports are steamin
TO and from Gallipoli Peninsula, IN
greatest precautions are takel
against the English submarines
Armed soldiers line the rails with or
J ders 10 shoot at everything .appearin
on the surface. This is the season 70
the porpoises to show their creates
activity. and the porpoise mortality
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