Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-03-03
B0MBARDMENT OF FORTS
is RESUMED BY ALLIES
Ottoman Government, Realizing
Peril. Rushing Troops to De-
fense Of Capital.
STRIFE IN coNsrANTINoprt
Placards Accuse Young Turks Of
Treason, and Leaders Are
Said to Be Quarreline
Bitterly.

GENEVA. via Paris, Marcf,
3, 1910 a.m.-An Austrian feet.
consisting of six Austro-German
submarines, accompanied bv sew
eral torpedo boats and torpedo
boat destroyers, left Pola. the
Austrian naval base, at dawn yes-
terday for the Mediterranean.
bound for the Dardanelles. ac-
cording to the Telegram, which
bases its report upon what it
characterlzes as information r
eelved from reliable source from
Trieste by way of Innsbruck.
The fleet is said to have reen
last reported off Corfu.
Bombardment Is Resumed.
PARIS, March 8. e:1o a.m.-T,,a .on,-
bardment Of tho Dardanelles or.y was
resumed yesterday. says an Athens dis
patch to the Matin, when an allied feet
steamed into the straits. Four battle
ships are reported to have been bon-
harding positions of the Turkish army
along the Gulf of Saros, which is Sc
| rated from the Dardanelles by the Ca
lipoli peninsula
The funds and books of the Ottoman
| Bank and the German Bank, it is said.
have been taken from ConstantinoDls
| to Konieh. city in Asia Minor
Turkey Realizes Peril.
An Athens dispatch to the Figaro
says:
Information from reliable sources is
to the effect that Turkey now realizes
the situa ton Is becoming critical De.
fenses are being thrown up hastily at
different points along the coasts OF
Asia Minor.
Troops from the vilayets of Smyrna
are being rushed to the Dardanelles
region. Desertions are numerous
in Constantinople proclaiming the
Young Turks leaders traitors Bitte!
dlssensions are said to have arisen
among the Turkish leaders
Interior Forts Shelled.
A dispatch to the Hayas Agency7rom
Athens says:
After the destruction of Fort Darda-
nus the allied vessels bombarded the
interior forts of Hamidien and Yildiz
Tabla. A naval division bomDarded at
the same time from the Gulf OF
Saros side OF the peninsula Fort Bou
kali kale, causing serious damage
the town of Ienicheir. near the fort
of the same name, was burned"
Nine Battleships in Action.
ATHENS, March :. via Paris, March 4.
Nine battleships took part in yester-
days bomba rdment of the forts in the
Dardanelles. Six of them were British
and three French. The squadron ad-
vanced to within two miles of Chanak
kalesI, at the narrowest point in the
straits.
which were landed at Kun kaleh on
the Asiatic side, met the Turkish gar
rison, which was scattered easily. The
telegraph station on Besika Island.
near the entrance to the straits, has
peen demolished.
LONDON, March 3.-''News has
reached here from Berlin. says the
Daily Mails Copenhagen correspond
ent, that the Turks are very short of
ammunition for their big guns, ana
that the Austrfans are making efforts
to push supplies through to Constan-
tinople.
An Amsterdam dispatch from Con-
stantinople quotes Halil Bey, president
of the chamber of deputies saying
that the bomba rdment of the Dar-
had ha
result 1T is improbable the enemy
can come through the straits he said,
but If he does come through he will
find that the greatest part of our army
has been gathered there, and that
measures have been devised against
every possibility.
In London confirm the report that the
OTTOMAN Bank and the German Bank of
Constantinople are transferring their ef-
fects to konieh. Asia Minor. and that the
archives of the Turkish government al
ready have been removed to that point
Thinks Chances Favor Turks.
RERLIN. March (by wireless) The
cbance of success for the Anglo French
naet which is attacking the DardaneIles
"a considered by Maj. Moraht, military
critic Of the Berlin Tagebiatt to be
rather weak" He says that the de
,tructton of all the fortificattons on both
stdes Of the straits would not permit
nassaee Of the fleet or an invasion by
land. since 1t would be necessary to
free the waters of mines and subdue
the Turkish land forces.
england and France, Mai. Moralt
argues, would be unable to bring up land
forces Of sufficient strength for success
full operations, whereas the Turks have
strong forces available.
The ships bombarding the coast de-
lenses are handicapped heavily, he con-
tinues. by the lack Of sufficiently high
and by the fact that the
amount of ammunition available for
them is limited. Considering all these
phases, he states that there Is no rea-
son to doubt the ability Of the Turks 10
maintain control Of the Dardanelles