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Show TURKISH REPORT ON DARDANELLES Contantinople, Jan. 9, via London, 8 "08 p. m. The official statement issued is-sued today says On the Dardanelles front Thursday night there was rather brisk bomb fighting on our right and left wings. On Friday our artillery for some hours at intervals violently shelled hostile trenches opposite our right wing, caus- ing heavy damage. In the center our artillery and our bombs destroyed seme hostile trenches and bomb and mortar positions. On our left wing there was a feeble artillery duel. Two cruisers, a monitor and four torpedo craft assisted the enemy's land batteries. bat-teries. At 2 o'clock in the afternoon our shells caused an outbreak of fire in the enemy's samp near Teke Burnu. On tho night of Thursday our batteries bat-teries in the Narrows effectively shelled the enemy's camp near Sed-dul Sed-dul Bahr, and on Friday the enemy's batteries in the region of Teke Burnu. The enemy's Seddul Bahr batteries and a cruiser and a monitor anchored near Teke Burnu replied unsuccessfully. unsuccess-fully. On Saturday our Anatolian batteries bat-teries effectively shelled the harbors at Seddul Bahr and Teke Burnu. A group of hostile troops Is In the valleys near Kere Vizzere and Mor-toliman. |