The Elbert County tribune., 1915-03-26
ALLIES HAMMER
AT DARDANELLES
WATER DOTTED WITH BODIES AS
FORTS DRAW GUNS FOR NEW
ATTACK FROM WARsHIPs.
3,OOODEADANDINJURED
BRITISH ADMIRALTY DECLARES
FALL OF OTTOMAN CAPITAL
is NOW NEAR AT HAND.

western Newspaper Union News Service.
Paris, March 2i.-The bombardment
OF the forts in the Dardanelles has
been resumed by the allied fleet.
which entered the straits accompanied
by mine sweepers. The dispatch to
the Havas agency says the fleet is
prepared for the final assault on the
forts.
London, March 22.-The lombard
ment OF the Dar1snelles by the ten big
English and French battleships and
many smaller craft is ready to reopen
with even greater fury than reigned
Thursday when the Irresistible and
Ocean OF the British navy and the
French dreadnought Bouvet were sunk
and eight other vessels damaged, ac.
cording to the war offices of London
and Paris
While England still insists that the
loss of life on hir vessels was slight
France admits that nearly GOO of the
Bouvet's 621 men were killed. and ad
vices from Constantinople and fort
towns along the straits say that fully
5000 men from the vessels were
killed and wounded. Bits of news from
the admiralty issued piecemeal. paint
picture of horror in the battle zone.
The monster German guns of the
great forts are drawn upon the war
vessels. while hundreds of the bodies
of the manglcd Englishmen and
Frenchmen float on the waters-tomb-
stones to other hundreds of their com
rades who were killed in the fighting.
Advices from the front say the
shores are lined with other bodies and
that manned and dying men are trying
to crawl to safety on the land of the
enemy after being washed ashore.
Il is asserted that the great fleet
will soon crush its way on to the Turk
capital. On the other side, in the Bos-
phorus, the Russian fleet is knocking
at the door. and naval experts express
the belief that the doom of the straits
has been sounded
On their side the Turks express con
fidence that the forts and the mines
in the straits will be able to keep out
the ships OF the allies. They insist the
big forts are not damaged.
Paris.-Zeppelin airships raided
Paris Sunday and dropped a dozen
bombs. Seven or eight persons were
injured, one seriously. F6ur of the air
craft started for the capital following
the valley OF the Disc, but only two
reached their goal. Missiles also were
dropped at Compeigne, Ribecourt and
Dreslineourt, but without serious re-
suit.
London.-Crown Prince Rupert OF
Bavaria mas been seriously wounded
by shell, according to the Daily Tele-
graphs BoulogIe correspondent.
Amsterdam-Ano Dutch steam
er, the Batavier ". has been seized by
the Germans and taken into Zee
brugge.
London, March 2O-Two British bat
tleships of the first class. the Irresis-
tible and the Ocean, and the French
battleship Bouvet and torpedo boat
destroyer, were sunk by mines and
eight or ten other craft of the allies
badly damaged by mines and shells in
the Dardanelles March IS. according
to statements from the war offices of
London and Paris
The French battleship Gaulois and
the British battleship Inflexible were
seriously damaged, and will have TO
lay up for repairs, says the admiralty
statement.
The heavy losses were sustained fol-
lowing a concerted attack by the al
lied fleet on forts j. U, f and E, the
fire from which was silenced b. shells
from the ten big sea fighters.
The French battleship Jauregui-
berry, which carries among her arma-
ment two Pinch and two 10.s-inch
guns, was ordered Monday to join the
French squadron operating against the
Dardanelles.
! There is no late news from the Oar
danelles, and the belief in England
seems to be that the operations will
perhaps be more protracted than at
frs. expected.
France Extends Moratorium.
/ Prris.-A decree was promulgated
avfaudirv tba rnoraforium na annliad