The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1915-07-08
ALLIED FLEET is
SMASHING FORTS
The Turks Swept Back by Land
Forces Carnage Awful
KRITHlS REPORTED TAKEN
Galician Drive Checked, Belief Of War
Superintendent Repulse Oesper-
ate Attacks by Germans-Aus-
TRANS Attacking Heights.

Athens.-The allies opened a fierce
before Krithia. Eight warships. led
by the superdreadnough Queen Eliza
beth. are pounding the Turkish forts
with the greatest crash of metal since
the attack upon Fort Kilid Bahr more
than three months ago.
Reports reached here that Krithia
had fallen.
Mytilene dispatches reported the
losses on both sides in the last week
of fighting at the Dardanelles to be
the heaviest of the Gallipoli campaign.
All dispatches received here agree
that the struggle being waged around
Krithia is the greatest land battle
waged at the Dardanelles since the
expeditionary forces were putashore.
General Hamilton has concentrated
his armies north of Sedd-Ul-Bahr, and
is sweeping the Turks back along the
peninsula by successive. short rushes.
Each charge is preceded by terrific
bombardment of the Turkish trenches
by Anglo-French battleships, standing
inside the strait and along the shore
of the Gulf of Saros. The trench fight
ing is of the most desperate character.
Turkish and allied troops are gripped
in a hand-to-hand combat on the sands.
Petrograd-In the opinion of Rus
sian military experts. the Austro-Ger-
man drive in Galicia has been def
nitely checked.
They now look for q great turning
movement by the Russian troops that
will force the abandonment of the Ger
man offensive between the Vieprz and
Bug rivers of Russian Poland, where
hard fighting is still in progress.
In their withdrawal before the SUI
perior forces of the enemy the Rus
slams have shortened the distance
over which it is necessary to transport
reinforcements and ammunition. The
Germans and Austrians have length
ened their lines of communication.
All reports from the front agree
that there has been a noticeable slack
ening in the artillery fire Of the Aus
tro-German forces. This is due to the
fact that, in their advance eastward,
they have run away" from their am
munition supplies, in the hope OF
piercing the Russian front-a plan
that is declared by the Russian leaders
to have completely failed.
Paris.-The Germans are counter
attacking desperately along the whole
front extending from Arras, north, to
Ypress. official dispatches reported.
The British positions around Ypres
are being subjected to a terrific bonn
bardment Thousands of heavy explo-
sive shells have been hurled against
the English trenches. The artillery at.
tack at certain points northwest of
Ypres is being followed by massed in
fantry attacks and attempts to storm
the English positions.
The following officials communique
was issued by the French war office
here
The cannonade was violent at a
great number of points on the front.
notably in the region of Wotsten,
northwest of Ypres, and in that OF
Souchez and in that of Verneuil, to
the north of the Aisne.
A violent and continued lombard
ment, an attack by the enemys gren.
adiers, was launched against our po.
sitions on the road from Ablain to
Angres, to the north of the Bethunc
Highway. 1t was completely checked.
Near La Boiselle one of our mines
destroyed the advanced field works OF
the enemy
AT Quart-En-Reserve in the forest
of lie Pretre, there was a movement
by the enemy, which followed a VIC
lent bOmbardment. and which was re.
pulsed by the fire of our infantry"
Rome.-Desperate fighting is in
progress around Orizia. on the Isonzo
river, where the Italian troops are
struggling to open the way to Trieste.
The Italians dominate the heights on
the west side of the Isonzo, but the
Austrians are making frequent attacks
in attempts to dislodge them.
Reports received from the front
state that in the fighting alone the
Austrians, repulsed in their attacks.
eft 1920 dead On the slopes of the
heights