On February 95, the Admira'ty announced that all the forte at entrance of the Dardanelles had been silenced and two days later Reuter's correspondent at Athens stated that the Allied Fleets had commenced the bombardment of the interior forts, particularly at Dardanes Light House and Sedel Bahr. On March 3, the same correspondent telegraphed that the Dardanus forts and those of Hamidie and Tsimerlik had been silenced, fifty-two men of war being in the Straits at the time. All these places are below Chanak and Kilid Bahr, which command the narrowest part of the Straits and which, according to an interesting article in the January number of "Chamber's Journal," form their strongest defences.
The Forts of Kilid Bahr, In view of the messages likely to reach us during the coming week some details which the "Journal" gives about these two sets of forts are of considerable interest. At Kilid Bahr, the Gallipoli peninsula forms a heel. There is some low ground between the water and a hill behind and on the former are batteries almost flush with the
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