The Monte Vista journal., 1915-03-27
WATER DOTTED WITH BODIES ,
FORTS DRAW GUNS FOR NEW
ATTACK FROM wARsHlPs.
3,oo0DEADANDINJuRED
BRITISH ADMIRALTY DECLARE.
FALL OF OTTOMAN Capital
is NOW NEAR AT HAND.
Western Newspaper Union News scry,c.

western Newspaper Union News sor,.,,.
Paris, March 24.-The bombordn,-.
OF the forts in the Dardanelles h..
been resumed. by the allied nes,
which entered the straits accompanis5
by mine sweepers. The djspatcb :,
the Havas agency says the fleet j.
prepared for the final assault on the
forts.
London, March 22.-The bombara.
ment of the Dardanelles by the ten hi,
English and French battleshins .ns
many smaller craft is ready to reoDe,
with even greater fury than reignei
Thursday when the Irresistible and
Ocean of the British navy and tbs
French dreadnought Bouvet were sunk
and eight other vessels damaged, ae
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 600 of ths
Bouvet's 621 men were killed and sd
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
a picture of horror in the battle zone.
The monster German guns of tho
great forts are drawn upon the war
vessels, while hundreds of the bodies
OF the mangled 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
1t 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 tho
big forts are not damaged.
Paris.-Zeppelin airships raided
Paris Sunday and dropped dozen
bombs. Seven or eight persons were
injured, one seriously. -Four of the all
craft started for the capital, following
the valley of the Disc, but only two
reached their goal. Missiles also were
dropped at Compeigne, Ribecourt anu
Dreslincourt, but without serious IT,
suit.
London.-Crown Prince Rupert o.
Bavaria has been seriously wounueu
by shell, according to the Daily lele
graphs Boulogne correspondent
msterdam.-Anothe Dutch steam
er, the Batavier ", has been selzeu@
the Germans and taken into Aee
brugge.
London, March 2O.-Two British paF
tleships of the first class, the lrreSi,
tible and the Ocean, and the freh.l
battleship Bouvet and torpedo DUO,
destroyer, were sunk by mines an.
eight or ten other craft OF the am
badly damaged by mines and sheiis
the Dardanelles March IS, accoruils,
to statements from the war Offices
London and Paris. :,
The French battleship Gaulols ana
the British battleship Inflexible "'.r
seriously damaged, and will nave
lay up for repairs, says the adliii""
statement. T.,
The heavy losses were susta,he| W "
lowing a concerted attack by the ~.
lied fleet on forts j, II, F. ana u, ".
fire from which was silenced D. sn''
from the ten big sea fighters.
The French battleship Jauree"
berry, which carries among her .h "~
ment two 12-inch and two lO,o'in ,ss
guns, was ordered Monday to JON .h .ns
French squadron operating against :"
Dardanelles. ,,.
There is no late news from the ,oad n
danelles, and the belief in hns .'ul
seems to be that the operations WI"
perhaps be more protracted th'N
first expected.