New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-04-30
ADVANCE
TOWARD STRAITS;
SEIZE THOUSANDS
Win Fierce Battle on Coast
IS Miles from Tip
of Gallipoli.

London, April 29.-According to Mi
tylene advices received here through
the Athens correspondent of the Havas
Agency, the landing Of the Allies on
the Gallipoli Peninsula continued
through this afternoon. Turkish aero
planes endeavored TO drop bombs on an
allied ship in the straits.
An allied squadron entered the
straits and bombarded the Turkish
forts for seven hours in cooperation
with another squadron posted in the
Gulf of Saros, the dispatch says.
The prisoners taken by the Allies in
their land lighting already number sew
eral thousand, including many Germ~r
officers, who have been sent to Malta
Among the prisoners are not a few
Turks with revolver bullet wounds in
ficted by German officers in driving
them on to the attack or in desperate
ly endeavoring to prevent a retreat
One soldier now in the hospital a.
Moudros has three such wounds in the
mead.
Warships Opposite Chanak.
"The bombardment in the Darda
nelles continues vigorously" says "Tht
Daily Telegraph's" Mitylene CORE
spondent, under date of Wednesday
The allied ships have reached Vrysey
in front of the Chanak forts, eigh
miles up the strait.
"Information received here regard
ing the landing operations is meagre
1t is reported that the Allies have oc
cupled the town of Maitos, as we'll a,
the town of Gallipoli.
Large numbers of Turkish prison
ers are being brought TO Lemnos anC
Tenedos.
although the accounts of the opera
tions received here agree that the
British and French are making excel
lent progress, II is stated that thell
losses have been very heavy"
The Athens correspondent of "Th'
Daily Telegraph" says that the rea
difficulties for the Allies troops viii
only begin as they advance further
into the interior, where the Turks have
strong defences and heavy guns. The
correspondent adds that the military
authorities in Athens believe that tn,
campaign will be long one.
Turkish Trenches Stormed.
A Mytilene disratch to "The Times,
dated to-day, says:
Several lines of trenches between
Cape Helles and kilid Bahr, on thu
European side of the Dardanelles, hav,
been carried by assault, and about l.,
200 prisoners have been taken. Or
the Asiatic coast the French hav'
captured some 1900 men around Kun
kale.
To-day the fighting in the strai
had progressed as far as the line o
entertainments along the ridge tina
runs from Calvert Arm at Thymbra u
the Hill of Hisarlik. From the sum
NIT of Tenedos, which was crowded
with sightseers, shells could be seer
exploding all along this line. on whicl
the French Allies were advancing a
about noon. Inside the straits tn
warships had not yet penetrated be
yond Kephez Point, but the German
garrisons between Kilid Bahr and Cap,
Helles are now said TO. be cut off b,
strong force of British troops tina
has established itself across the mar
rowest part of the Calipoli Peninsula.
when once this twelve-mile strip o
shore is in the possession of the Allies
it is believed the complete silencing o
the batteries on the Asiatic side an,
the final clearing of the mines from
the channel should be comparativel.
easy.
mo loss OF warships i; known t,
have occurred so far"
Fierce fighting throughout Wednes
day on the shores Of Sulva Bay, on tn
western side of the Gallpoli Peninsuls
eighteen miles north OF the southern
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