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Show GERMAN ACCOUNT OF BOMBARDMENT OF TURK FORTS BERLIN, Feb. 27, via London, 9:-15 p. ' m. The Constantinople correspondent of 1 the Tageblatt, who witnessed the bom- , bard men t of the forts at Die entrance to. the Dardanelles by the British and French . fleets, tends a dispatch dated noon, Feb- ; ruary (5, as follows: FoTir hostile warships appeared at H o'clock this morning before the entrance, en-trance, but tliA fire against the outer forts was weaK. The enemy's mine-sweeping mine-sweeping vessels could clearly be ! seen among the big armored ships. Nothing' noteworthy happened up to 9 o'clock. The bombardment yesterday lasted ! fully eight hours. The Anglo-French ships bombarded almost uninterrupt- ! edly the fouter forts Orhanie and j Kum Kale on the Asiatic side, and Frthogreil and Kedd-EI-Bahr on the ! European side, but were unable to silence completely any of them, although al-though the ships finally approached within short range of the forts and showered them with shells from their heavy artillery. Sedd-El-Bahr and Kum Kale particularly were subjected sub-jected to a most violent fire. In the afternoon I rode with a Turkish commander to Kum Kale and from a distance of half a mile watched the gallant fight of the forts, until evening. For hours the flashes from the eleven hostile warships, which lay at short intervals before the entrance en-trance to the straits, couid plainly be seen with the naked eye. The Turkish losses were remarkably remark-ably small. There were a dozen dead in Sedd-El-Bahr and Kum Kalp. The fire from the forts scored good successes. Several hostile warships, ! including the Agamemnon (a British i battleship), were severely damaged, i One ship is reported to have caught fire. |