South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-04-30
Anglo-FrenCh Fleet ReneWS Its
Bombardment of inner Forts
on DardaneIIeS With Greater
Fury, so Ships Participating.
0TT0MANS GALLANT IN
RESISTING INVADERS
Gen. Leman Won Sanders
Praises Soldiers Highly For
Making Repeated Charges
Without Showing Fatigue.

LONDON, April 30.--AlthOUgh they
are paying a heavy cost in human
lives, the AngIo-French land forces in
the Dardanelles sphere of operations
are progressing steadily, driving the
Turks before them. The British
forces operating on the GallipOH pc
ninsula and the French under Gen.
D'Amade on the mainland of Asia
Minor are reported TO have advanced
from three to 10 miles, capturing TO-
900 Turks.
Tho Anglo French fleet has renew
ed its bOmbaTdment of the inner forts
on the Dardanelles with greater fury.
Dispatches from Athens and TenedOs
said that between 40 and so warships,
lying IN the gulf Of SarOs and the
Dardanelles strait, have been hurting
an incessant storm of shells against
the Turkish works defending the
southern end OF the narrows, at
Chanak and Killid Bahr.
At least five landings have been ef-
fected by the allies, IL is reported in
Athens dispatches. and the British are
believed to have been successful in
throwing a line across the peninsula
from which point near kaba Tepe, on
the Ae sean sea side, 10 point near
MaidOs Unofficial claims are made
that the British and their French allies
lipoli. but there is no confirmation OF
this report and il receives little
'credence. The peninsula is only five
miles wide between kaba Tepe and
Maidos. this being its narrowest point.
Advance % Miles.
British forces that effected a land
ing near Enos, On the Aegean sea, at
"A point where the Turkish line ap-
pToaches the Bulgarian frontier, are
moving i'm a southeasterly direction in
an attempt to throw line of posi-
tions across the eastern end Of the
Gallipoh peninsula and thus cut off all
of the Turkish land forces on that
tongue Of land. They are reported TO
have advanced % miles in the past
five days.
\ mighty armada of men-of-war ly-
ing from the western entrance of the
Dardanelles 20 kephez, 10 miles up
the straits have been bonn harding the
inner Turkish forts with such ViO-
lence that the thunder of the guns
could be heard 80 miles away ON
the European side. IN the sector OF
NilHd Bahr, at least l. Turkish forts
are in range of the British and French
guns on the military maps these
works are denominated as forts y, .,
NJ l. +. *. J. r. :, 1, =, @.
Australians Arrive.
Australian reinfOrcements arrived
in the DardanelleS sphere on Tuesday
They were put TO work installing land
batteries on the territory at the south
ern tip OF the GallipoH peninsula
which is now i'm British possession
strong lines Of trenches are being eN-
cavated, Turkish prisoners declare that
their German officers compelled them
TO blow up all the earthworks that
they had 10 evacuate SO they could
not be used by the allies.
4 feature of the land lighting which
adds dramatic interest 20 the gigantic
attempt to Open the road TO Constan-
tinople lies in the fact that the
French and Turks are engaged on the
plaf1s of Troy 1t was here, in Asia
Minor. so mythology tells us, that the
Greeks maintained "a siege of Troy toI
% years.