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Show ALLIED AIRSHIPS BUSY ATSMYRNA Bombs Are Dropped Over Forts Turks Entrenched and Installing Heavy Guns. Paris. April 24, 5:15 a. m. Allied aeroplanes are showing great activity over Smyrna, says a special dispatch from Salonikl. A French aviator recently re-cently dropped two bombs on Fort Kastro, killing several horses, another anoth-er sank a German ship lying In part, and a third struck the railroad sta-I sta-I tion Observation made by aviators, according ac-cording to the dispatch, indicate that Turkish forces assigned for the defense de-fense of Smyrna number 35,000, They occupy trenches extending from Vour-lap Vour-lap to Smyrna and are posted on heights commanding the city. The Two Brothers and Rantratl have been repaired. A new fortification built above the fort of St George has been armed with thirty heavy guns, supposed to have been brought from Constantinople. |