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Show ALLIES SUSPEND NAVALHGHT1NG Turks Profit by Respite and Repair Damage to Batteries and Forts. TROOPS GATHERING Admirals Proceeding With Caution in Forcing Dardanelles Darda-nelles Another Month Needed. Paris. March 18. 8 a m The Athens' Ath-ens' correspondent of the Havas agency, agen-cy, in a dispatch dated March 17, says the naval operations of the allies at Mmyrna, Asiatic Turkey, have been temporarily suspended and the Turks are profiting by this respite to repair the damage to their batteries and forts. Tbe are pursuing the same course also at the Dardanelles and on either shore of the Sea of Marmora. Mar-mora. There are about 180,000 Turkish troops west of Constantinople, according accord-ing to the latest Information reaching Athens, the correspondent continues. Forty thousand men are on the Galli-poli Galli-poli peninsula; thirty thousand are in European Turkey and the rest are on the Asiatic side of the Dardanelles. Darda-nelles. It is reported hero that the Turk? are placing guns on thr principal heights surrounding Constantinople, on both sides of the BosphoniB. Admirals o be Cautious. Milan, via Paris, March 18. 5:10 a. m Prudence will govern the ef-f ef-f forts of the admirals of the allied fleet to force a passage of the Dardn-i Dardn-i nelles, according to a special corre spondence of the Courier del Sera, which gives the captain of the French hospital ship Canada as authority for the statement. At least another month, he says, will be spent in efforts ef-forts to silence the Turkish fortifications, fortifica-tions, especially those guarding the narrows at Chanuk Kallssl. The operations against Smyrna, the correspondent declares, had a double object. The first is said to have been to prevent the transfer of the Tenth Turkish army corps which was preparing to leave for the Dardanelles if x and the second to cut the communl A' nation of the army which was sent against Egypt. |