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ALLIES OPEN up
The DARDANELLES
All Forts at Entrance to Straits
Reduced by Guns
of Fleet.
ARE NEARER CORSTAHTIHOPLE
French and English Ships VIII Pro-
coed to Clear the Way to Turkish
CapitaIARussians Back to
BukoWina.

SaFal7t-FRuSSidHS BACK 10
Bukowina.
London, Feb. 26.-An the forts at
the entrance of the DardaneIles have
been reduced by the allied feet. This
announcement was made officially to-
night.
The announcement of the secretary
of the admiralty follows:
The weather moderating, the bonn
bardment of the outer forts of the
Dardanelles was renewed at o'clock
this morning February 25). After a
period of long range fire, the squadron
Of battleships attacked at close range.
All the forts at the entrance to the
straits were successfully reduced and
the operations are continuing"
Other Forts Weaker
For several days the allied British
and French fleet has been pounding
at these forts, which constituted the
greatest obstacle to passage of the
straits. Within the straits and in the
Sea of Marmora are other fortifca-
tions, but these are believed to be of
2 weaker structure
The straits are guarded also by
lines of mines, believed to number at
least seven. 1t was under some of
these lines that the British submarine
81, in command Of Lieutenant Com
mander HoIbrook, diyed last December
and toTpedoed the Turkish battleship
Messudieh- Recently the Turks, fear
ing the entrance of the allied fleet into
the Sea of Marmora, sent troops and
heavy artillery to all the islands in
that water.
Russians ReinVade Bukowina.
London, Feb. 26.-Russian troops
have reinvaded Bukowina and reoccu-
pied Sadagora, on the railroad four
miles north of Czernowitz, according
to a dispatch received by the Evening
News from Mamornita, in Rumania.
The Austrians are pushing up their
troops towards Czernowitz to meet
this new Russian attack.
Working to Relieve Reims.
London, Feb. 25.-The Russians,
from all accounts, are holding back
the Austrians in Bukowina and it is
stated in an official dispatch that they
have reoccupied the important railway
center of Stanislaus.
With regard to the western arena,
the regions around Perthes, where the
French have been making a long sus-
tanned effort to advance, and the VOs-
ges are apparently the only centers Of
fighting of Importance. A good deal of
significance is attached by military cir
cles to the operations near Perthes, as
a successful offensive by the French
there would relieve Reims.
The campaign to the northwest OF
Verdun has a similar object in view,
the French hoping to Srive the Ger
mans from Montfaucan, which has
been strongly fortified, and thus deliy-
er a fatal blow to the German plans
for capturing Verdun.
Italy Is Near War.
Rome, Feb 25.-CIose observers in
Rome of the political situation declare
that since the readiness of Italy to
join in the war has become apparent
the insistence of Germany upon her
continued neutrality has grown
stronger.
1t is declared in a reliable quarter
that Prince Won Buelow, the German
ambassador to Italy, has summarized
the Italian situation to his government
substantially as follows: Italy has
spent almost 2 billion lire (400 million
doIlars) in war preparations since the
outbreak OF hostilities; consequently
action on her part is daily becoming
more imperative
Rumania to Join Allies.
Paris, Feb. 25.-Nicholas Misu, Ru-
manian minister of London, will soon
return to England bearing a note as
surfing the British government that the
Rumanian army will take the field in
April, says the Mathis Bucharest cor
respondent in a dispatch fled by way
of Nish and Malta.
Allies Slacken Offensive
London, Feb. 24.-Public interest is
being transferred to the military oper-
atoms and the bombardment Of the
DardaneIles forts by the allied fleet
1t appears from the official report
issued by the admiralty tonight that
the continuation of the operations
against the Dardanelles has been de-
layed by unfavorable weather, but
there is still no news of the effect Of
Saturdays bombardment which was in
progress when the first report was
published.