The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1915-03-17
PEOPLE FLEEING a"
C0NSTANTINOPLE
Attack on the OardaneIIeS
Continues Unabated.
ALLIES CAPTURE TRENCHES
Are Now Facing Main Positions of
German Army and Is Extending
over a Wider Front Than Form

Over Wider Front Than Form
erIy.
Paris, March S.-The French Of
fensive continues unchecked in Cham
payne.
The attacks are now being carried
out in most unfavCrable weather con-
ditions, but despite the handicap. the
/ communicates issues by the French
war office record additional advances
in this region. The French onslaughts
are now being extended over a wider
front and are reaching to a consider
able distance west of Perthes, the pre-
vious fight having been centered main
ly north and east of that village and
north of Mesnil-Les-H urlus.
Most of the outlying German
the operations are taking the allied
troops against the main fortified posi-
lions of the enemy, where progress
will necessarily be slower, although
there is every expectation that it will
be relatively successful.
west of Perthes the French gained a
foothOld in a wooded section which
the Germans had organized solidly.
North of the village they repulsed a
counter attack, while at Mesnil and
Beaousejour more ground was taken.
The Germans continue their efforts
at Lorette north of Arras. They at
tempted four attacks, but all failed.
The German heavy batteries at
Westende in Flanders have been sub
jected to severe fire.
London, March S.-The inner de-
lenses bombardment of the Darda-
nelles and the defenses on the
Gulf of Saros continues much in the
same manner as on the preceding
days, the dreadnought Queen Eliza
beth battering away at the works on
the Asiatic side OF the strait, by the
indirect method of attack, while part
of the fleet poured in a direct fire
from within the passageway. state
ment issued by the French ministry
of marines at Paris and telegraphed
here, says:
"The battleship Queen Elizabeth,
stationed in the Gulf of Saros bonn
barded by indirect fire on March 6.
the two large works on the Asiatic
side of the strait which defends the
narrows near Chanak, namely Forts
Hamidiehi-Tabia and Hamidiehi-Sul-
TAME At the same time battleships
which had penetrated the strait con
tinued by direct fire, the lombard
ment of the work at Dardanos, on the
Asiatic side and Souan-Dire on the
European side"
A dispatch from Bucharest says
that the attacks on the inner forts
have caused the panic in Constan-
tinope to grow. The exodus of the
well-to-do residents of the Turkish
capital has begun. and a number Of
families, mostly Greeks, have reached
Bucharest.
Fifty German military officers, who
have been In Turkey, have passed
through Bucharest on their way to
Berlin. Other German officers, &C
companied by their families, arrived
here and will proceed to Berlin short
ly.
In addition to other troubles, the
people of Constantinople now are
threatened with famine. according to
the Bucharest correspondents. Bread
has been requisitioned for the troops
In such quantities that little is left
for civilians. II Is freely reported
that the Germans have totally lost
their influence in the capital and that
most of them have left already for
Germany.