Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1915-03-02
Battering Down Forts on The
4O-Mile Straits Leading to
Turkish Capital.
RUSSIANS RECOVER GROUND.
British Marines Have Landed
on Turkish Soil and Cap
tured Notifications.

London, Mar. IAN Exchange
telegraph dispatch from Athens
says:
THE allies have disembarked de-
stroyed Dardanelles forts and British
and French flags are now flying over
them.
The fleet continued a lombard
ment of the inner forts Saturday
afternoon. A powder magazine was
blown up. There were numerous
victims. The fleet had reached a.
far as the lighthouse near Fort KiliG
Bahr. The forts on the European
side have been reduced to silence-
Mine-sweeping operations continue
There are $4,000 Turks on the
European side and $1,000 on the
Asiatic SIDE"
The Russian offensive operations
extend along their whole front-1n
| indication that they have brought
strong reinforcements into the field.
They have checked the German at-
vance in North Poland, where the
Germans are reported in retreat.
All the PetrogTad correspondents
refer 10 the capture of large mum
Der of Germans as a new phase OF
the war and credit it to a lack St
officers among the German armies
and the large number of young I'M
trained men drafted into them
The Russian offensive extends u
what is now known as the BzurA-
Rawka front.
There has been heavy fighting ir5
western Galicia and the Carpathiars-
but no notable changes in the situa-
ton. In eastern Galicia the Rus
slams report another repulse for the
Austrians, who again have tast
number of prisoners.
With Russia it would seem to be q
case of keeping up the supply of ara
munition, which the opening of the
Dardanelles would greatly assist.
The attempt to force the straits By
the allied fleet is of momentous us-
portance to the allies. The opening
of the straits would release Russian
grain which the allies want and
would give to Russia war material
which she herself cannot produce,
while it would be certain to have a
marked effect on the future policy
of the Balkan states.
The allies however, do not antici-
pate that their success in the Oar
danelles undertaking will be imme-
date, for they are now facing the
hardest part of the problem, having
the strongest forts ahead Of them.
although the guns of these forts
have not the range of the guns Of
the larger ships, particularly the fif-
teen.inch guns of the Queen Eliza
beth. The fact that Queen Eliza
beth isin commission suggests that
her four sister ships, all of which
were laid down within a few weeks
of each other. either are in the fight
ing line or ready to join it. These
five ships are considered the greatest
fighting machines in the world, and
besides being heavily armored, are
almost as fast as battle cruisers.
Although their speed is given as p
knots, the Queen Elizabeth made -
in her trials, and she may exceed
that,
The Belgian army, reorgani1ed
and re-equipped. again has been tax
ing part in the fight for the recoy-
of its country, and according TO the
French report, has advanced across
the User and taken farm from the
Germans, while its artillery has de-
molished two German works
| Otherwise the battles in the west
are still confined to the Champagne
and the Vosges, where both sides
Iclainn successes