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Show ' FORCES LANDED ON BOTH SHORES OF STRAITS London, April 30, 2:48 a. m Mity lene dispatch to the Times, date Thursday, says: "From credible informants, who have just arrived from Tenedos and i I.emnos and who are also to a certain cer-tain extent eyewitnesses, the following follow-ing details have been learned of the terrific fighting that has been Incessantly Inces-santly since 4am last Sunday "Forces have already been landed ; on both shores of the straits and addl- ' tlonal troops are to follow where and when they may be required. The British have attacked the European side while the French have effected a landing on the Asiatic side. "Several lines of trenches between Cape Hellas and Kllld Bahr, on tho European side, have been carried by assault and about 1200 prisoners have been taken. On the Asiatic coast the French have captured some 1800 men around Kum Kale. I "Today the fighting in the strait has progressed as far as the line of entrenchments en-trenchments along the ridge that run from Calvert are at Thymbra to the hill of Hiaarhk. From the summit of Tenedos, which was crowded with sightseers, shells could be seen exploding ex-ploding all along thiB line, on which the French alies were advancing at about noon Inside the straits the warships had not yet penetrated beyond be-yond Kephez point, but the German garrisons between Kllld Bahr and Cbp Hel'-es are now said to be cut off by a strong force of British troops that has established Itself across the narrowet part of the Gallipoli penin-sulu |