Sioux County pioneer. (Fort Yates, Sioux County, N.D.) 1914-1929, 1915-03-12
TURKISH FLEET. ASSIGNED TO
GIVE BATTLE TO ANGLO
FRENCH WARsHlPs, FLEEs
BEFORE ALLlEa.
TEN BIG WARSHIPS TAKE
PART IN COMMANDMENT
Reports From constantinople peride
Activity Of Allies as Ineffective
ottomans, However, Admit De-
destruction of Outer Forts
Squadron 10 Reinforced.

London, March 5.-The allied fleets
have resumed their bombardment Of
the inner forts of the Dardanelics, &C
cording to a dispatch received by Reu.
ter's Telegraph company from its cor.
respondent at Athens. The dispatch
follows:
THE bombardment of the inner
forts of the Dardanelles has been re-
sumed. Ten big warships took part in
the operations.
According to a British officer, only
two Of the Turkish forts remain In.
tact. Allied landing parties found the
charred remains of soldiers in the
damaged forts, showing that the
Turks had buried their dead before
exacuating these positions"
The Turkish fleet, assigned to give
battle to the Anglo-French warships
inside the straits has fled at the ap-
proach Of the allied war squadron, &C.
cording to Athens dispatches.
Turkish Ships Escape.
While a heavy fog hung over the
strait, the Turkish warcraft lifted an
Choir and steamed silently out OF Ma
CARA road and into the sea of Mar
mora. With the lifting of the mist
allies aviators reported not a single
Turkish war vessel in the strait and
accommodating flights far up Marmora
sea failed to reveal their whereabouts.
The Turks are believed to have with
drawn to the very approaches of Con-
stantinople. prepared to pass the Bos-
porus and enter the Black sea II tho
Ottoman capital falls.
OardaneIIes Becomes an Inferno.
The battleships of the allies, which
now show all the colors of the triple
entente by the addition of the Russian
cruiser Askold, have turned the straits
of the Dardanelles into an inferno
which. according to British and
French claims. has spelled destruction
to the Turkish defenses. On the other
hand reports from Constantinople de-
ride this activity as ineffective. The
Turks. however, do admit the destruc-
ton of the outer forts, which they
say they expected. but they declare tho
inner works impregnable.
Three more Of the inner Dardanclles
forts have been reduced and French
and British warships continue to shell
the forts still guarding the entrance
to the narrowest part of the straits.
according to Athens dispatches. A
French squadron is renewing the at
tack on the Bulair forts on the Gulf
OF Saros on the Gallipoli peninsula
with the object Of landing marines tn
seize the railway.
Mine sweepers Are Busy.
Mine sweepers have cleared the
channel for distance of IL miles
above the entrance, penetrating near.
ly to Cape kephez. IL miles inside of
the Dardanelles. The fleet guns are
now trained on smaller forts on the
Asiatic side of the strait
Athens dispatches confirmed the re-
port that German artillerymen are
manning the big Krupp guns replying
to the allied fleet bombarding the Oar.
danelles.
A landing party, moving northward
on the Asiatic side, found bodies of
many Germans near the ruins of a
dismantled Turkish fort.
Among other reinforcements. which
are said now to make the allied fleet
off the Dardanelles number more than
fifty ships is the battleship Campus,
last heard of as anchored off the Falk-
land islands.
The only craft which French or
British authorities report has been
compelled to withdraw from the action
10 the British destroyer Zephyr.