Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1915-03-29
GEAR s FLEET
SHELLS FORTS
OF BOSPORUS
Missiles Fall Within Il
Miles of the SuItan'S
Palace.
AIRMEN DROP BOMBS
ON C0NSTANTFNOPLE {
TOrpedOb0ats Driven Back BIZ
Russian Squadr0a-sTnrk-
ish Vessel Sunk.

LONDON, March zs.-The roar o5
hostile guns Is shaking Constants.
nople. Russian shells are falling VIII.
Ia twelve miles of the suItan's palaee
For the first time IN history Islam 6
capital has been bombarded from fz<
air.
Dispatches from Petrograd ane
from Balkan points today reporze6
the Russian feet again hurting SHELF
against the Bosporus defenses The
bombardment was resumed last eve
ming. Russian aviators sped alone
the Bosporus and dropped several
bombs upon Pera, the residential sec
ton Of the Ottoman capital Part oz
the population is reported to have 1et
TO the interior in panic.
An official statement from Conzfan-
tinople evidently delayed In trans
mission reached here today. Il wa
filed shortly after noon yesterday ane
dealt only with the morning opesz s
tons.
Turks Deny Damage
EARLY Sunday Russian warships
sheiled our guardships at the Hes-
porus at long range without doine
any extensive damage" said the
Turkish war Office, "and the bonn
bardment lasted but short time"
A semi-official statement frou
Petrograd today said. ~
Further aerial reconnaissance ebos
that our guns did Considerable dam
age in Sunday mornings bonbar<z
ment of the outer forts and batteries
Of the Bosporus. On both side OF TIE
strait our gI1nners scored hits. Our
aT1ators have dropped bombs in tn
suburbs of Consfantfnople. THe
action is continuing"
A four-masted Turkish ship which
fed toward the Hosporus when the
Enssian Feet approached was sum
four miles from the Black sea e1
trance. The Russian admiralty Sf
nounced that several Russsizn sha<Is
struck her almost simultaneously and
she caught fire. While shells wsrr
stfll being rained upon her she rss
taken by an explosion, hae1ed ovfss
and went down. Her crew could hs
seen struggling in the water. sevsraz
boats put out from Russian cruiser
but were subjected 10 a terrific IRE
from the Bosporus batteries and were
forced to withdraw leaving the Turk
ish sailors to perish.
Turkish torpedo boats eaaerec<
from the Bosporus when ths BlacI
Sea feet appeared, but quicI<lx
retired, under the protection 6r
the forts, according to Petrogra6
dispatches. During the engagemeuf
enemy aviators appeared over tbs
Russian feet to observe its strength
but returned to the Bosporus with
out dropping bombs.
While the Russian feet was. ham.
merfng away at the eastern defenses
of Constantinople, the Anglo Frencf
squadrons at the Dardanelles con
tinued their operations. During sun
days bombardment the batteries o1
Kalia Bahr, near Kilid Bahr, werr
completely silenced, according 4
dispatches from Tenadoes Island II
direct bombardment Of Kilid Bahf
from the Gulf of Saros has been re-
sumed
Military critics admitted today thai
Consianrinopie is in no danger ei
falling before the Russian attack of
the Bosporus. The moral effect OF
the Turkish capital, however, muat
be tremendous it was admitted TO
day. From the heights around Con
stantinople the Turkish people un
doubtedly can glimpse the operations
but q few miles away. The boom a
Russian guns can be heard distinctl5
in the heart OF the capital. The Rus
sian attack was deliberately piannet
to strike terror into the hearts of tb
Turks.
According to the best svsiIabfe IN
| formation here the Russian Black
Sea fleet was reinforced by two neS
dreadnoughts completed at the Blac
Sea yards, mounting ten twelve-inc
guns each. The Boeporus fortihc1
| tions, however. are considered al
| most imhregnable and any real al Z
tempt to force the narrow strais
would be disastrous.