Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1915-05-01
SWEEPING TOWARD !.
CONSTANT|NOPLE
British Landing Forces
Fight Their Way up to
the Narrows
FRENCH ON EAST SIDE
Allied Fleet Covers Landing at Six
Points and Batters Shore Fortif-
cations al Heavy Loss

London, May .-fufther hghtlng or
the heaviest character is reported IN
progress on the GaIlipoli peninsula,
where the British forces are making
every effort to cut off the Turks from
the mainland. Athens dispatches say
that series of night assaults drove
,s1s the Turks further inland.
The 'Cioj:-operat:ng allied feet Is
Shelling the Turkish forts from In.
side of the Dardanelles, from the Gulf
If Saros and from the Aegean Sea &.
Meanwhile the French are advancing
IN the Asiatic side.
The Turkish positions at Niagara
we're heavily bomardede last night
Sweeping toward Constantinople on
land and sea, the combined French
and British forces are conducting Il
determined campaign from flank and
ear to reduce the forts guarding the
Dardanelles.
Two forts have already fallen be-
fore the brilliant campaign inaugu-
lated in the new movement, Seddu!
Bahr succumbing to the British ana
Kun Kaleh, on the Asiatic side, to
the French allies.
At six points on the GallipoIi pen
insula the British land forces are
ilmly established and the co-operat-
ing feet is established ten miles ur
he Dardanelles.
Colonial troops from Australia and
New Zealand landing at Sari Bahr,
have the task of cutting Il way across
the narrow part of the peninsula and
of attacking the forts guarding
Niagara Roads from the rear.
Official reports of the operations
reaching the British war office indi,
cate that today the attack is we'll
under way and that the advance along
the Dardanelles has begun, the main
British army sweeping mp the Euro
pean side while the cooperating
French force is advancing along the
Asiatic side from Kun Ka!eh.
London, May AFTER serious fight
np, in which the Turks offered n
stubborn resistance British troops
according to an official statement Is
sued last night, have established
themselves on the Gallipoi PENN
,,la and advanced a considerable dis
lance toward the narrows Of the Oar
laneles, while the French have
.leared Cape Kun Kaleh. on the ASA
tic side of the Straits OF Turks.
Thus it may be said that the second
and most serious attempt to force the
Dardanelles has been fairly launched.
The Turks, under the guidance oi
their German officers, placed every
obstacle in the way of the invaders,
BUT against the fire of the allied heet
and the gallanrty Of the army they
we're forced to fall back. The British
sorces lost heavily in the operation
One Turkish troopship was sunk by
sbe British battleship Queen Eliza
beth. which is believed again to nave
been firing her big guns across the
peninsula, directed by airmen. Inc
troopship was sunk off Ma'doS' a
town well inside the Narrows. ~h'en
later the battleship Triumph oom-
oarded and SETON fire.
The official account OF the iahdihe
# the allied troops does not pea'
ont the over-optimistic reports IRON
Grecian towns which precede 1t and
which mentioned thousands OF prlso
,ers as having been captured the
,otal of men taken by the allies be
mo given as 500. These were cut OF
~ the fire of the ships.