March 9.
Excellent. progress is being made in the Dardanelles and also against the fortifications at Smyrna, where several hostile batteries. were silenced with insignificant casual-tics to the crews of the British ships.
The German newspaper "Vor-waerrs", commenting on the Allied attack on the Dardanelles, says that the sending out of the Queen Elizabeth shows how little anxiety the British Admiralty feels _concerning its superiority in the North Sea.
In the recent fighting in Persia the British and Indian troops engaged showed great pluck and endurance and, fighting against Jrigir from
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