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Show TURKS DAMAGE THE WARSHIPS Constantinople, April 30, via London. Lon-don. April :;o, 11 03 p m The following fol-lowing Turkish official statement regarding re-garding the operations at the Dardan elles was given out here tonight. ' On April the fire of our bat-leries bat-leries damaged the French cruiser Jeanne d'Arc, which left for Tenedos in flames An English destroyer was, sunk by our shell fiie on April 28 at the entrance to the narrows "Sixteen armored cruisers attacked ' our advance batteries at the narrows; on April '-'", but UP lf evening thousands thou-sands of shells fired upon our hatter I les and infantry positions resulted J onlv in the wounding of a number of I soldiers The transports off Seddul j Hani were struck repeatedly by our shells, and one of them was heached We sank some boats and sailing v es sels The British battleships Majestic and Triumph which had been damaged, dam-aged, had to withdraw from the fighting fight-ing line For the last two days the enemy fleet has undertaken no operations against the narrows |