Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1915-03-01
WarShipS, Now Is Miles
from Entrance, Still
Hammer DefenSes.
AWAIT ANNOUNCEMENT
BY PREMIER AS0UITn
Measures to Meet Summaries
Menace Expected to Be
Revealed Today.
|RUMANlA HAS AGREED
TO ENTER WAR, REPORT
Pstrograd Claims Steady Gains
by Russians in North Pc
land Fighting.

land Fighting.
The great Anglo French feet 3
still smashing at the Dardanellss fDss
tifications and is reported to hzvu
penetrated sixteen miles from the en-
trance Dispatches today declars
that 5000 Turkish soldiers have been
killed IN the bombardment. Although,
Constantinople admits that some q
the forts have felt the effects OF the
bombardment, II has not confirmed
the statements Of the British adnai-
rally concerning the reduction of the
outer defenses. A large force q
Turkish troops Is said 70 have been
assembled on the isthmus to oppose
any attempts OF landing parties to
advance on ConstantinopIe.
Practically all discussion OF the
diplomatic situation has been sus-
pended in the expectation of the
statement Premier Asquith Is 70
make in Parliament this afternocn
on the steps which the allies prob
ably will take to meet the menacs
of the German submarine blockade
In the meantime no progress has
been made in the case of the Amerf-
can steamship Wilhelmina, which
may become mere formalIty II =
general blockade of Germany Is pro-
claimed.
New Ransasian Report.
The Rurnansan minister Of the Ia
/ terrier is credited with the statement
! that . representative of his country
] has made a formal agreement with
Great Britain. France and Russia for
entering the war with them Bucha-
| rest advices say that ten classes OF
| Rumanian reserves have been called
out for March 13. 1t has been ex~
pected that should Rumania enter the
war she would do so IN the hope OF
| en- 'arging her territory at the expense
! Of Austria and with the particulaf
object of obtaining Translyyania.
which is populated largely BY Bux
manians.
A semi-official statement from
Petrograd deals with the Russian
J Offensive movement In Northerr
Poland. near the Prussian border.
where, it is said. the Germans are
being pushed back steadily. The
| lighting in this region is severe. pos
session of villages passing back and
forth from one side 70 the other but
appreciable progress each day is
claimed for the Russians In Eastern
Galicia, at the other extreme of the
Russian front, the Austrians are re-
ported to have suffered reverses.
These claims, however. have not been
borne out from either Berlin or
Vienna.
BY the United Press.
: LONDON, March sixteen miles
| inside the Dardaneiles, the greatest
j fleet ever assembled for a bombard-
ment, Is smashing the defenses OF
Constantinople into ruins today. A
light house south of Fort Kilid Bahf
on the European side, has been de-
molished. Hurting 1850 pound pro-
i iectiles the mammoth dreadnought
/ Queen Elizabeth already has inflicted
severe damage on the fort itself, one
of the strongest in eastern Europe.
Mahomet's centuries long hold upon
| the Dardanelles is being slowly
| loosened. French monoplanes are
darting over the plains of ancienf
Troy on accommodating expeditions.
Fighting between landing parties anE
TurklSH lflIAlLTy Is DCSuFTAHz N1tlt@tf-
& mile of the tomb Of Achilles.
Turkish losses in the bombardmeni
thus far total 5000 dead and wounded
according to cablegram from
Salonika today Troop trains from
Constantinople are clogging the rall
ways on the European side and the
Turkish wounded lie behind the forts
without medical attention.
Rumor Forts Cut on.
| Unconfirmed reports were pubhshe3
here today that the allies win seizS
/ the isthmus at its narrowest part
near Bulair and cut the European
4 forts of from communication with
Constantinople. One report had X
that this feat actually has been ac-
complisi1ed by landing parties IN ths
Gulf of Seros. Military experts. how
/ ever, did not credit it. They pointet
out that large bodies Of Turks on the
European side Of the strait could cut
their way through the isthmue BY
weight of numbers.
| Other reports received here today
said that not only the giant Queen
Elizabeth. but at least one OF her sis
ter fighting monsters, Is training her
fifteen-inch guns upon the Sultan.x
! Notifications The admiralty refused
to confirm this, For many weeks
nothing has been known here Of the
whereabouts of the newest dread
noughts From Athens and Cairo to-
day came q dHpatches indicating that
the Ottoman capital is in state or
/ terror.
Turks Shells Fan Short
| The Turkish general stan has
sunmariiy halted the Turkish cam
naigns in the Caucasus and alouK ths'
Suez Canal A dispatch to London
newspaper today from Cairo saic
that the Turks are evacuatfng einei
1 peninsu a, abandoning some Of the
guns they dragged across the desert
| for an assault upon the canal
The Anglo French feet has sui
fered insignificant damage thus fa5.
Superior. in gun range. the larx0
! fighting units are hammerine al1fhf
! Turkish forts from diso<
TurKish shells fired in reply are Vslk,
ling short Of the mark A. At sed3f