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Show ALLIES RESUME BOMBARDMENT OF THE TURKISH FORTS London. March 17. A dispatch from Rolie says thut a wireless message frofi Rhodes announces that the Anglo-French fleet has swept the Dardanelles Dar-danelles entirely clear of mines for a distance of twelve miles from the entrance. en-trance. The warships are now bombarding bom-barding Chanak, on the Asiatic side, and a landing party has cut the fable fa-ble between that town and the for-tiegp for-tiegp of Killd Bahr, on the European hotel J H side The same party also destroyed the torpedo stations on the narrows A correspondent of the Dally Mall, telegraphing from the Island of Tene-dos, Tene-dos, under date of March 16, nays: "The gate of the Dardanelles Is open, but the corridor into which it leads is still 6trongly held by the enemy. en-emy. 'The present operations are the fourth of a series of phases arranged and foreseen by the two admiralties. The first phase was the demolition of the forts and batteries at the entrance to the strait The second was the clearing of the strait of mines on the first reach to Cape Kephez. Both these arc completed. The third phase was the bombardment of Port Chanak by high-angle fire from the Queen Elizabeth over the Gallipoll peninsula, while another British ship inside the strait obseived and signalled the effect ef-fect of the fire, .protected by a French ship, which made circles around her and fired at the Turkish batteries. Fourth Phase Entered. "The fourth phase has now been entered. It consists of the sweeping of the mine? barring the approach to Fort Chanak. Then will come the bombardment of the forts on both sides of tne channel neur Chanak When these are demolished, and it may be expected that the action against them will begin shortly, the remaining lorts to the sea of Marmora Mar-mora are not so formidable and the way will soon be clur to Constantinople Constanti-nople "The whole fleet is particularly ap-preclative ap-preclative Of the work of the minesweepers. mine-sweepers. Loth French and English, which, without armor or protection of any kind, lire working constantly under un-der the enemy's fire Impeded by their own drags and by a strong con-tiary con-tiary current, they move slowly and are an excellent mark They continually contin-ually have marvelous escapes from destrucl ion "Thi work of forcing an almost Impregnable passage is bound, unfor Innately, to be rostiv.' |