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Show TURKS PLACING : NEW HEAVY GUNS i Fierce Replies Made to Fire From French Squadron at Mouth of Dardanelles. i British Vessels Taken to Malta for Repairs One Struck Twenty Times. Berlin. March 16, by wireless to Sayville The correspondent at Athens Ath-ens of the Ix)kal Anzclger says in a dispatch that the Turks have succeeded suc-ceeded in placing new heavy guns in the Kum Kale battery, at the mouth Of the Dardanelles, which have replied re-plied fiercely to the fire of a French squadron. Continuing the correspondent says that two badly damaged British cruisers cruis-ers have been taken Into Malta. One of these vessels had been struck fair ly no less than twenty times. German military critics commenting on the official report of the second retreat of the Tenth Russian army look upon It as equivalent to an im portaut victory, not only because of the losses inflicted upon the Russians, but because of the normal effect They declnre it is evident that only weather conditions prevented the Russian retreat from being cut otr. oo- |