Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1915-03-04
LULI MARKS
w AR EVENTS
Troops Seemingly Moving
For New Drives Against
the Enemy Lines
The Allied Fleet Are Poudina she
Dardanelles Forts to
pieces.

There has been comparative quiet
in the main theater of the European
war, for the past week st is report
ed that there is a perceptibfe move 4
ment Of troops, particularly on the
part OF Germany, for new drive
at the enemy
The general German belief appears
to be that Germany has broken tie
force of the czar's efforts to invade
Prussia and that the German staff is
rearrangng its troops with a view TO
fresh effc.ss elsewhere to weazen
the allied lines.
5 The event OF the past week in the
European war as the British aaclar-
alton of blockade of ali the German
ports, THUS placing the risk of sentry
INTO any German seacoast city with
eargoes Of goods at the risk of the
shipper
This step is taken IN retaliaTlOn for
THE German submarine blockade OF
the English coast and it makes ship
iping eof all Kinds extremely hazard
sous
The north took the same drastic
step during the civM war, issuing no
.tice of blockade Of all the southern
I, ports, SO Hhat blockade runners i'm
arred the risk OF having their car
goes conftscated ri the event thHt
Uncle Sam caught them attempting
to get aither foodstuffs or munitions
s5f war into any of the southern cities.
True, Snere was much evasion of
the ediet OF the MUrth on she parfsof
European shipping interests and es.
pecially on the part u Elnglar1d
whose sympathses, so far as the cpni-
n1eraiss wtsrsd WAS concerned, was
" decidedly and hecisively with she \, l
south. 81
vsarships in Dafdanelies.
Athens, (via London} An allied
feet aggregating forty warships to-
day tpenetrated the nardanEile \
straits as far as HortaTi and within
range of Fort antepe un the Aslatic
side, according to reliable infcrma-
tion reaching here today. Fort In
atepe WAS destroyed. Various Turkish
encampments also were bombarded.
The ships are now within range Of
Fort DardanOs. A French squadron
is cruising uSfaer the forts at the
entrance to the straits, which are
now entirely dssmantiSd.
Penetrate Al Miles Into Straits.
Paris The Athens correspondent
sof the Matin has forwarded fdle fol.
lowing: g
Eftar the complete destruction 81
AZ the forts at the entrance to the Oar
danelles, the allied Heet penetrated
4 the straits and sl1elled the interior
x forts 1t proceeded down the Dar.
danelfes fourtsen miles from the en-
trance
London. fleet of British Il and
French Warships continues to ham
mer away today at the door of the
DardaneIles, the straits which close
Russia rich granary The necessity
of releasing the supply Of wheat on
the shores of the Black sea causes
the general belief that the naval at
tack is more than ia mere demonstra-
ton
Official announcements declare that
after the reduction of the four outer
Dardandiles forts, mine sweepers
went to work within the straits, un-
der the protection Of the guns Of the
deet. Unofficial dispatches from Atl1-
ems and Rome assert that at least one
~ French warship actually has penetrat-
ed the passage:
Panic n consts sttinrpie, 'Report
London, Fsb. 2S tSunday here
1s q panic in Constant tinopIe. and many
1nfab bftants are leaving 4 says the
i Dispatch. sInfernal trouble Ii immi-
{ nenf The cabinet has decided to re,
move The seat Of government to Brou-
aas Asia Minor. &
Lond don. Feb % Kter haViTg
cOmDIAfed the destruction OF the forts