| Show I PROJECTILES OF INV INVADERS ADERS' ADERS CAUSE CARNAGE AMONG ISLAM'S HOSTS Turbaned Defenders Defenders' Fail in Their Efforts tc to Har Harm Ships Fortifications of Channel Are L Leveled by Effective Bombardment nt MAGAZINES EXPLODE Fleet Comes Unexpectedly Unexpected Unexpected- ly Scatters D Death ath Panic in Smyrna By y ED L. L KEEN EEN United Staff Correspondent LO pON MarTh 6 Smyrna 11 na tia a first city of pC Asi Asiatic tit T Turkey is J J in ing 1 Yil bO bombarded d by Ule British East British sI Indian fleet Jeet under under under un un- der VJ A Admiral J. J Richard H H. l Vierse Magazines Magazines' s' s O 9 of have lavo been Leen blown up 11 with terrific tcp effect upon th the g garrison ion and o has m moVed Ved In to attack the city at nt close range Th The admiralty made this jhN an announcement announcement an- an in an official stat statement ment dealing with sith tho the attacks of or the sultan sul- sul sultans sultan's sub sul tans tan's strongholds in the tho East EnSt The Fren French Anglo h fleet It was was a announced announced an an- nan has I leveled Turkish land lanet defenses inside the Dar Dardanelles C for fora r ra a distance of or several ne mlle miles and Is la Isnow isnow now pounding away ay at the big forts torts guarding tho the narrows of or th the strait itself Fort ort Dardanos the nr first t Important Turkish h defense on tho the Asiatic ulc shor shore Inside the Dardanelles Da W was reduced after a hour forty bombardment The British battleships battleships battle battlo- ships Albion Prince George Georgo and anti Triumph played projectiles upon Dardanos aU day Wednesday and resumed their task on Thursday Mine sweepers then moved into the tho channel and tho the allied fleet made malic short work of or th the Chanak fort tort south of ot the entrance to the tho narrows on the tho Asiatic side Open on Defenses On Friday the monster Queen Elizabeth open opened d an Indirect fire tIre upon the narrows defenses She was supported by tho battleships Inflexible and Prince George Gcorge which directed an alternate fire file upon the Turkish forts Corts on the thc European and Asiatic sides MIdas of ot the strait The Thc magazine magazino of Fort Foil was blown up This fort tort was armed with tho the best best- and heaviest guns Forts Tabla I and were partly wrecked The bombardment of this chain of ot defenses was WU resumed today the warships moving into closer range Although the ve vessels sels were fired heavily at by concealed guns guns- they were not hit Mea Meanwhile th the British cruiser Sapphire accompanied by destroyers destroy destroy- ers era executed d a raid on Asia ARia Minor ports where Turkish troops were reported oo to be bc concentrating Steam Steam- Steaming ing awa away from Crom the Dardanelles en- en Continued on page paJe 6 6 PROJECTILES OF Continued d from page paJe 1 1 trance on Wednesday she silenced a n. field gun battery north of or On the following day y tho the Sapphire S de destroyed destroyed destroyed de- de a 8 Turkish mill military tar station at she arrived unexpectedly unexpectedly un un- On Friday Frida ex expectedly In tho the gulf of J In Inthe Inthe inthe the Aegean sea fifty miles south of the Dardanelles entrance and bombarded the Asia Minor town of Her shells shen scattered a Turkish force concentrating concentrating con con- there Panic in Smyrna The arrival al of the Last East Indian squadron squad squad- ron ran In Turkish waters had been kept a closely C guarded ed secret until the admiralty's alt alty's altys s 's announcement tonight With Vice Admiral I flagship the tho battleship battleship bat bat- lending leading the Indian fleet steamed through the Suez canal and arrived ed off oct Smyrna The appearance of the British squadron squadron squad quad P Part rt of or orthe ron cau caused eod a panic In Smyrna the population of more than fled to the hills hill o overlooking the tho city The Tho harbor forts opener fire tire without waiting wait wl ing Ina for squadron to begin hoe hos The bombardment continues According to admiralty I officials the British Last East Indian commander plans to level avel the Smyrna forts fort and send a party ashore to seize the tho city In denying the truth of Turkish h claims that several allied warships had been forced from tho the fighting line by the Turkish gunners the admiralty tonight Instanced instanced the case of the Sapphire Constantinople dispatches early In th the week reported the tho Sapphire put out of commission by fire from the forts forte The official statement tonight d de declared do- do dared she was as bombarding Asia Allia Minor cl cities only yesterday Drive Troops Back Marine detachments operating co-operating with the warships have driven the Turkish troops back In skirmishes for forthe tho the possession of ot villages es both on the Gallipoli peninsula and on the shore of Asia Allia eta Minor Besides Be Smyrna Asia Minor ports porta have been shelled by British Brit Brit- ish eh warships In the Aegean sea The British losses In the last three days' days fighting total nineteen killed three missing and twenty five wounded the admiralty stated It was officially lIY denied denied that serious damage has been done one to any of ot tho the allied warships Admiralty officials In giving out the statement tonight ht again refused to discuss discuss dis die cuss cues Bucharest dispatches concerning the tho dash of the Russian Black sea fleet flee toward Constantinople Inquirers were Informed that all aU news concerning the Russian naval operations must come como from tram Petrograd The latest Bucharest dispatches reported that the Russian fighting fleet would arrive off the Boap Boa Boa- p tonight tonight or early Sunday In three thre days days' InceR Incessant ant hammering atthe at atthe atthe the Turkish forte Inside the Dardanelles the allied fleet ha has moved up the strait strait to the entrance of ot the narrows a a. stretch of waterway y scarcely more than thana a mile In width and about fifteen mn miles s from the entrance The Tho Inch fifteen-Inch gone funs at ot the tho Queen Elizabeth t are battering away at nt Fort Me J Id Its inside tho the narrows and commanding com com- commanding manding the wide mile-wide waterway The pound 1950 c c- c tUes tiles already have rave Inflicted severe damage damage dam dam- age upon tho the forts fort's batteries Chanak fort rort on the Asiatic side south of the narrows' narrows entrance has been si si- si Only a feeble fire Is comma from Bahr opposite Chinak Chanak anon anon an am amon on the European side sine Fort Port higher up on the hills overlooking o J Bahr has hall been partially lIy dismantled but buther buther buther her modern Krupp guns continue to rain shells into the channel |
