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Show ALLIED CRUISER HIT BY THE TURKS AT DARDANELLES ( ViXST XNTIN'OrU;. Pec. 3, via I. n-i n-i joi p. ni. T'ne Turkish war office : pl t.-.dav that in the riuhtins: at 1 Liu- i 'a nhtnellcs a cruiser of the :,llies had '..en :iit ibr"e i hues ami forced to retire. I n allied tonedo Imal was attacked by a Turkish aeroplane after il had stranded ou r:,. st of the Hay r.f Saros. XIip sraieniect follows: "At some points of Ike Iiardanelles Trot:: there has linen fierce ficlitinu ulth lv..r.l Two bostile cruisers nfar Anaf-arta Anaf-arta and two n"ar Ari-l'.urnu 1 a rt icipa 1 ed ' ilh land batteries in a bombardment. ! Our artillery replied, damaging trenches ! of the enemy apd destroying machine sun j positions at Arl-Burnu. I "Our artillery thrice hit a hostile i cruiser near Keddul-Kohr, compelling- it to lietieat. One of our aeroplanes dropped bombs on a torpedo boat of the enemy ; which had been stranded on the northern ! toast of the Gulf of Saros, two miles west of Cape Eridsche." CONST ANTI NTOPL B. Dec. 3, via London. Lon-don. 1:M0 p. m. Fighting between the forces of Grand Duke Nicholas and their Turkish opponents on the Caucasian front is proceedinK under the most adverse weather conditions. An official statement issued tndav says: "Activity on the Caucasian front is hampered ' hy "snow, which is ten feet deep, and also by cyclones." |