London, March 6.
The Admiralty make the following announcement.respecting the Dar-dandles operations on March 3 and the allowing days:—At 2 p.m. on the 3rd H.M. battleships Irresistible, Albion, Prince George and Triumph resumed the attack on Fort Dardanus and some neighbouring concealed guns. These were less active and- were dealt with by our ships with more certainty with the help of sea planes.
On the 4th sweeping and bom: barding operations within the Straits contin steadily and de-volition parties, with detachments of the Marine Brigade of the Royal Naval Division, were landed at Kum-Kale and Sedil-Bahr and destroyed four Nordenfeldts. Skirmishing ensued and the enemy were found to be holding the villages in force, On the same day H.M. cruiser Sapphire silenced a battery of field guns in the Gulf of Adramyti and the Prince George shelled the defences at Desika. Our total casualties on March 4 were 19 killed, 3 missing and 95 wounded.
On March 5 H.M.S. Queen Elizabeth, Inflexible and Prince George attacked the defences at the Narrows, directing their fire on Forts J. L. and T. which mount 32 large guns. The Queen Elizabeth fired 29 rounds with satisfactory results, A magazine in Fort L. which is an important fort armed with the best and heaviest guns, blew up and the other two forts were damaged. The bombardment was observed by British warships inside the Straits of Dardanelles which, although much fired ea, were not hit, H. M. cruiser Sapphire destroyed a military station at Tuzburna.
On the same day the Commander-in-Chief of the East Indies Squadron arrived, with a squadron of battleships and cruisers, off Smyrna fro
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