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EDITORIAL, DRAMA, MUSIC. IXtm Hxibmt SOCIETY, riNANCIAL REAL ESTATE. AUTOMOBILES l>ABT HI TWFT.VT PAO! S SUNDAY, OCTOBER 81. 1915. 1'a.HI IT TWHAE' I*?OES THE D A R D A N ii L LE S----D E F EAT OR DIS A S TE R ? Political. Military and Bal kan Aspects of the Campaign at the Straits. Bv FRANK H. SIMONDS. I ol " Hit- GftSStt Wml .., laii Amebas foi the hla (or|i,; pai HI odd th.it they have th? atril ?T.r reaeratten. i tish advent ' r Dat equally great .- radition to racu p .. .'Tip tl I real i |.?? r, a1 | g ! m . i i-.iipni?Tii 'be main fold of .?pcra paraUeli the .**-yTacusan 1 too far, for while ?e. fait N'ieias. ? ..: hardly d . ? - tno ? ? Kki Bri . .-? ?? the Bi iti h II It : nth toil .-'? . 'ii.-.l ; !'i oin that ' . .moi. u? th? _ i ? .... . . Only tl ? Imperil?! As,?e. I ? ral v. it ii a th ?m army, Greal !? ii iperial in , had ? eat to E| esei tile i ... ? ,.,? the Egypt ? ts ? the Nil? i .'gypt, sJsrayi ? ? ? |ei I intei '.ni revolt. ? .venue ? -:. s pari al .?!? with the I rupted and ?If ?ho who!?? tyanam of l:npiria: - Iah sneceai I . . v ?rail" prestige, which i . ?sorri'. d l>e lost. V ? ? nallee, a tl - KM* ? he battle ? ? to i: . ? of orttei pea-. ? rim. If ii ? ?' strife ware kaasfe plain. In addi tioi?, .. rtui ity would come to the ?Wit ?' f th? IV'Mh!? Gulf tO l*f..-. those againat Maaopo tsrnia. ? . land gateway to India. Pia-. ?? ? British had immediate trofiU to tl emselvrs in trajU arrint ' ations from the Sinai to ms Gallipoli peninsula. Always, how? ??? 'ji;?li!ication that ?a the Straita, would doatiuj ??heir pr?t ft ?, ?}.< N'ear K?st, but the tl a Situ oparatlon. I'.ler.inti.iiial Con.?deration.. Turr . -.. iiptemati'ina! nom-idei '' ?at is i eceaeary t?rpt of all in th? ?l?r?*'-i ?fin?' -or t.reat Rntal;: . e\ in,mediate evidence of 1 'i inora] and material support. '-' bad made ?rock sacrifices in ? j tin* ?alllad et ?unis, ai I the reo 11 def?s?! at the Mazu r?aUi':e eras a final evidence of R .-'-inn itMat. What were her Allie- <loii,< ?Ml. R . ? . vas thus rafferilsg and la? ?Wag? thaQeirnai'?. iiothinp. ?Hut ??mai?, object of B'linlSTI ambitions for **hiries had been the pe.?s<?s?;on of Coi ?wfitinop'.. , and f(,r more than a century tesi . obstacle had been Britain. ^oss the Continent after ?the Mazoriu nofl and Sir Kdv.ard Crey ?*h?rg( ? words which meant DOthing *?**?* tl.?-. . ml thai Britain at last ??????????i ? Rttatda the right to rit in '**** in Pera and Calata am! restou- the f?*y** to ?Sai ta Sophia. Word?, ?uch words, /***? Ihs -i.iiliniiation of a?-ts; thus the "?toof the Allied nations at the ?ea gate * -Urn... i] brought oam ??i;tht^ia?m to ^????v, non d?votion. '* ?hldition, in the immediate military *' relieved the ?u-sian arrni?*> m* Caucasus of the strain in'-ident ts evoral Turkish arm*/ *t*'t the* opened the way to Boeriaa >Sy> to Russian invasion of the t'ar ?***? had paved the way for the Sat ^trtumph ?.t Valiovo. Th m to her nec J^y ?":?' British effort at the Parda /7*t?v? en assurance that was required ' ** iid that was imitant ly effective lyfatingly asefuL it was at ones ? J**** for th. futur-- resdiastioo of the PHM of Slav aspirations and a eon ^?tion to immadiaite Russian, need I"' leo? welcome as a promise of B????*> lack of which wa? soon to ^* tha gr?.??> mnnnsr r*?r*r?a! Th? Italian Factor. a0**, as in Petrograd, the Darda. GALLIPOLI AND THE FAMOUS '?BOOT." I he black line? shot? the two ?allied positiona. 1 he lower point is four miles broad, which supplies a scale ol distan? cs. nellei oral meant to have an influence whit it did ii. fact exert. Italian asplratio too, turnt toward the Near East At tl outset at the present war Italy finally ?1 cided to renounce her rivalry with ? run III the Western Mediterranean and in tl Old Roman province? ?if North Africa. '1 Gentian promisee r.f French African pro inces Italy turned a deaf ear. But th left, her hound to follow the coime ? V? Ice, ince t-he had surrendem! that ? K :-?. This path led straight to tl a :.. Sine?: the success of the Dardanelles e: pedition meant the downfall of Turk? and the fall ol Turkey meant the part tion uf Tutkish ?state, Italy could ?ml | hope to realize her amnitions in the N'en East by Incrimln? of right on? of tli ; heirs. To d?i this the had t<i enlist on '1, Al ii'd >.*'.(*? l uilnre t?> enlist ratant th; Russia, (?reat Britain and Frame arotj] dhi'de the O-manli property, giving t r*. the Italian uval, what they ?lid tu desire themseh e.-, and thu.i fifiWng Greet their sn!di(r in flu Near East. Tripoli. Finally, in taking Tripoli, Italy had at ? d Ntnmon intereati and comiii? perils with tlie Allies, Tnrl.i-h suoetBa I pi meant a prompt extension ?>f 'lurk Lab n.'Mvity tu Lybia and the Cyienaici Already the Turki.-h Holy War ha<l born fruit m tire Tripolitan Datant, if n-iwlier ehe, and the Senu.^i were a.-tir. More than all else, Uten, it. was the Dar 'danelle* expedition that persua<led Ital; I to east her lot with the Allies. She he jlieved. wrongly M it .-eem.-, that Turkisl eollBBta, would be sudden and prompt, tha the d?gringolade <>f Lui? Burgas and thi 1 irai Balkan War would be repeated Failing tnick rewards from Austria fa (u'tiniieo neutrality, Italy mad? up bei mind t-. take King l.eorge's dulling, a. Si.idima had taken briti:h service in tht Crimean War. And the Austrian prie. was lacking. Here. then, is a third solid gain; fir?t Egypt was temporarily at least Mttaj ir?mi all Turkish menace; r-eeond. Ru-siat conlidenee and h?yalty wero apsured ; third Italy ?rai cnlrtid; s-> much (lie Da-.i.i nclle? ojM'iatii'ii accomplice?! in th' '-p. n B?ltt?lll Politic?. Tht '.' staf m tli.' Allied ij i pTr.ru.it t' ??ampuign, whieh was hased mi flu- MVal and military operations. *W$t to nlufl the ^alksn state.?. Gieecc seemed certain to [be had tt the tirpt moment. But promptly (?reeee n.-ked tha* her own Integl Ruaranteod by her prospective allies. This meant that the Allie:? should publicly ??i-elare tlint Bulgaria could never hop? to retrain l'avala or Drama. Such a dec? imation would infallibly throw tho Bul gSU1 into Ihe arms of the Kaiser, and it WM the Bulgar who held the land trate to Constantinople. In aiaiiitioi.. Greece insisted that Bul garia should Ml receive from Serbin the IptmIs west of the Vf.rdar. whi-h ihe ed. Scibia. too, lighting bravelj aj Austria and typhus, proteste?! th;.? she should be permitted t<. hold what h?*r sol t?ers had won in two wars and wer?- de? fending gallantlj ii a third. C?vala. But the Allies. ?i?-t??i-mim-d to enlist Bill? gain., aahed Greece to surrend? i againal the promise of Smyrna. ;.ia tu gfve ovef ball of MgaCtrionia, -?? Bosnian fatoraa, ai well as to giv< Dalmatian liopes to Italy. ?Serbia ron sentod; Ven.u*4 ' rated but Ci?i..-t7iiitir,e, loysd to the Kaiser and perceiving national hostility tai the render of Cat ?la. balked. Bulgaria, foi her part, was eoldl) uncotnpromising; she must have a!! 01 she would, fot the nin mtnt. remain MU? Athen.-, meant.nif was frani.'.y - cious of Italy. Which held the Isl?n?! 0? Rhodes ;.:,d a portil 11 of the ?aCgean s pi'lag'i, whnse pe iple were lire.!.. It wai 'also Misjin-iPiiip-- of Indian dc.-itrn N'orthern Epirue. .*.'.. . lb- ? v ! but market! oat n? T.??...I?.n h? | | ??i that "autonomous" Albaria which wa* ihe playground for Austrian 1 I ambition?. Such war the situation in the Balhani the politicaJ as < tad with the mili? tai;.. The aim of tin- /Ulk was I create the Balkan ?Co lion, the Balkan alli?e, who had ? i vj .. - * foujrht after their firat rietoiy, and throw against Turkey and Aii-^na tht full weight of these con>id? table armies if the naval operations proved alone inaufl to open the road to ?the Blad S?M and make p??ssihle ?M trai rl->? si to Rui sla of neede?! muntth? Th?? Tun. of the Wheel. I rum th? in *eptio i of th? p f?>to. it 44;i . while Rus tia i I LsHed, Italj ei listed I ) men . liininary operation?, the tant?!?' in th. B i | kan? was euch that only one thing [navre the enlisting of Greece atid Bul? garia? This was ?ucees:*. Unfortunately, - aras certain immediately only if Greece or Bulgaria came in, perhaps anlj if both enlisted. With the possessor of Byzantium Bulgaria would have to mak? (?reek sympathies, apart from the i !jv. n. were witli the Allies, hut the Crown could postpone Greek participation. There was then plain the peril of th? tiling. If the Allied fleets failed, then Allied diplomacy would fail with them. There was not the t-nia?c.-' real 'han.'? ?o i'<i,mile the rival Balkan -.t?te-: each b??! upon all of his claim1? at the ex of all his neighbors. The influence of the courts of Athens and Sofia was against tli?- Allies. In victory aJoM trat chattel of ? toltTtion of the problem of the Near Fast. And the turn of the wheel arant against he Allies. First, the fleet tried and failed. I' ? the belief of rnoat military and i aval expert, that Ukt faillit?- trai due to the Bttempting of the iatpoaaible. That* ports hold that a fleet without an army eannol do what was asked of the Anglo? ! >?? but American naval and ? iv onVera insist that a littlr store tee and the Strait.- would ha\e won. In thil some British writers As for Berlin, it insists that the ? ltiunltion was gone when th* rjp, ?r d only retreat by ? i td b\ ?annum. I i | event the fleet tried and failed. i"'--'r-.M's w-re sunk by the Turks; the wbOaB venture wae abandoned; ?M t!f''* artjnt lack to Mudros te await kg uf lar.d force? and, ?s H turned of German submarines. The : what wa g, went ? rfc to fortify GsllipoH pen? trmi? raady. Did the '?? ? m tl poet t Greek arm] to aid their ' Mai y I Wa? tl I r squeal This, ? ' Statt. circuiiK-'a' ? In the occasion, but they do not chai g?.- the offe ?*. of th.* disaster. In Athens snd Sofia. VI ht!.? th.- Allie? were prep.-i'.-... I ?? ?|e whole face of th? war in Fu ? hanged. In th?- we ? the di-,.-'?? ': h at Ypi iaatBjOBBTt?rated tha? ? '. i Ulied "-;ii????" for th? g. Hard "il Util ?ai ,*? UM g BtJ ?an retreat that wa- to ? the '? ank- of the l>ui.ajec to th* Beresinn and from the outskirts of I ra jOtl to those of Riga, The effect in the Dnlkane could not be extsggerated. ( A foo? deal of rubbish, first and la. haia been printed in tiii*-' country abo tin* ia?l; of moral perception in the Bu kan . Hut why should the states who people have for decade? lasen compelled suffer untold agonie.- in consequence - the jealousies of the vjreat powers, W. were consigned to tender Turkish mercii for generations because Great Britain ar RUaWia and Austria wi-re at Ctdds aboi t'on-tantinople, cast asid?? all BOlf-inte est. and ri.-k existence because the Alii? believed themselves fighting for the r?t*l o'i this occasion? Why should the Hu pars forget Briti-h responsibility for th abrogatton of Ute Treaty of San Stefan 1? r eJOUnple, or the Greeks overlook th lu;.g ni (/htm are of ?rete or th?- recent ii jury in Northern Epine? In Athen? and Sofia. What HcMially happened wa that in th spring Athen- and Sofia concluded tha German victory was far from impoatibk ?an reyeises would not. however, ??( fed Stion if a successful Allie peditien should force th?-* Da?rdanelle by occupying the Gallipoli Peninsula. Stil neutral and still ready to enlist on th B I ide, the Balkan? wafted Mu Gallipoli land campaign prompt!; ???! into a ?seeond failure, h ? rtd ? immediate victory, there was al beat ? llock, a twnplete check. AU summei long, whii?- German gun? made i.--w echoei s v. egeaw an I Br? rt 1 ito. ih am .y Vilna. while we-.t?rn .Mlied armi?*. -ii.-l: t.. then tre; <"ht -. the Turks held on Now. the Greek arid ?M Bulgars havt m recent y ai - defeated 'he Turks ?iprcheiixible thing to them that | tain and France I fail where ,l i.. | seeded Leas than tl .. pstrati Bulgai ai d I ? ' Allied fa ?? 0 manli. Thus the sHlWtion in the Blind of the Bulgare tunv-d stead irj in favoi of the Teutons. Ferdinaml tkoped, hut many of his ad'.isern now be? lie? ed. that the A u ?tro Gern at? were to win. In Athen? the sympathy of the wheel i with the Allie i. VeniaekN hakei m hi eonnd? Jtimate Allied by the loi | ?????? nn ?he King ? ot only . b il t-toHi ? sd, l "?lie?.cd onhesitatingly, ? I.. rinai \ wooM w ha, Bulgaria ?Mobilia??. In this fcituation Germany suddetily r?f [fered to Bulgaria all that she hoped for? Macedonia, C?vala Bnd Drama, whi? I were (?reek, but lor which Greece was I be paid by Albanian gains; she persuade. Turkey to resign a part of Thrace am promiswl moro; she promised Mackenset and a victorious German army to cut th road through Serbia to Sofia; she dangle? 'nofore Ferdinand the lure of Constantin" pie, before Bulgaria *he hegemony of tin Balkans. Ferdinend took tho bait, Bui garfa mobilised and the end wa:- in sigh* V??nis?los Full. Again Venizelos strovti to enlist Greect on the Allied side. Again there s?teme Um certainty, as in th* days when th? fleet went to the Dardanelles, that a Oreer army would fight for the Allies at th< crucial moment. But again Constantin? intervened. Greece having rnobiii/.ed, h? ou ted Venizelos. Greece would mnair neutral. Relying on the promises of hu brother-in-law, the Kaiser, the (ireek Kin> fall hack upon the old policy. Had the AID? - yeaa - i i ia>rge urrrt to -end at once to Sal?nica, etstsd th< Greeki have boon able to reel thai the would bata been protected again.? dangei and only reojuirtd lo attach their ;? enemy. Bulgaria, Cos tantint might r failed. But no such airnv was available What was Bated of GratOs ITI what had been asked of Belgium, what was now asked of Serhia, to hold mi until distant armies could come. Greece, to bi .-uro, wa bound to Serbia by treaty to help her against B'ilgaria; so was Rumania; but here was the ner- i ? |p the Ser", not against Bllg but ;--^ai!.. t Bulgaria trith <.'-r:nany. Vi tr:a and Turkey thrown in. Yenizelo? b'.lieved that it was the wi?er policy to keep tho faith, but the Allies had no armlet to give his policy force. Creek sympathy did not go to the length of de? throning a king v.ho-e caotioa might ari from Teutoni'- sympathy, but was lolidly founded on .patent national intt Thus it was that Allied diplomacy in the Balkans having been shipwrecked in c-'t,-??ciiieiii-e of Allied defeat in the field, Bulgaria tnlitted and Gre- ?? netitrsl. Militai y and Na?r?l. I| now remains to summarize : i tory of the military and nattd operations. The naval attack began la 1 ebruary and tanniaatad after the siuk ing of the BoUttji, Ocaaa and Irreeiatibh', Ian March 1H. It was not until April H the first troops of the expeditionary army j began to land on the Gallipoli Peninsula. Ihe Battle tor Achi Raba, Sari Bahr ami the Turkish Forts. f Copyright. 1915. By The* New York Trfbune. ) I'M* pr'-mi-n?-?*-;.- Is perhap-- ttttS mfle? long, tratarjding i the Furo pean miiir.ia-i'l. with tho DantoiwUi ;Mi a.'i-l th' t? .' " O? -*uro' 71 the north. In bis Mr Is Hamilton compared it to a ? t-out. ... iHi t-"th the n.un : f the ?batUefk ; nd tho i ? the wnfflf. Itoi Thus the ? b-rot is the m-ster. end of tho peninsula, the extrem? point of h Is Cap?' Hella? and the notable feat uro is the town of Si-dtil Bahr, the sita? of the Turkish ft "ts c ':r.:>iar?dlr?g the er. trance to the f-trai*'? nnd the ?-r*i.e of th? .'. rd lighting. Fastward from BadaH Bahr, along Ike sole of the boot to the heel, is slightly les than ten miles, and exactly at the. h?*e. I? tho narrow point In tho Dardanelles com manded by a cluster of Turkish forts on the Gallipoli Peninsula and fnceH by others on the Asiatic shore. At Suvla Biv. On the north shore of the peninsula? at the ankle, is a curving bay beginning . I the hill of GSsba Tepe a:, i ending a* Suvla Bay a s'retch of three or four ?'ill'*.?, dominated by the ring?* of .Sari Bahr, some 900 feet over the ?Juif of Saros. From Cape Hellas to Suvla Bay i? porhaps twelve miles. At (.aha Tepe, th** ankle, th? Gallipoli Peninsula I? about five miles wide; at the toe, Isr-twe^n S?'?lul Hnhr and Cape Helias, lesa than t*.vo. The objective of the Allied fore???, wa? tho duster of forts just under the he?-!. above tin? village of Killd Bahr. Te reach this two ways were open. Troops could b.? landed along tho shore of the ankle from Gaba Tepe to Suvla Bay. They could also be landed at the too from ?ape Hellas to Sedul Bahr, and Just under the toa at IfostO Bay the best landing place of all, but under fire from Turkish batteries on the Aitiattc shore near the site of Tr< t of Cape Hellas as far aj? (?aba Tepe the character of the coast was such un ?to make landing operations diftivult, at 1 ?an effort her? entied in re!ati\e failure. The first problem of Sir Ian Hamilton ? Was to get his troops ashore, and he vun ? hliired to make -a general attempt?that*. i . to fling his forces at every available landing place at once?In order to avoid th? destruction of each separate landing parly by the Turks, who could easily conc?ntrate? ? ? ? . ? ' numltere at any threatened lot The landing cos? 10.000 Briti?h caaualth ? that is, a number ei'ual to the wholo of th?i 'first American expedition to Santiago In ; The First Chealt, The landing was made mainly at the tne from Cape Hellas to Sedul Bahr. Mean time the French landed on the Asiatic aide, near tho site of Troy, and for the moment so engage?l the Asiatic, batteries tha' Movto Hay was occupierl. At the -ame lime r.'.ier parties were put a?hoie a' tin- ankle, above (?aba Tepe, and Muw H Ml the instep, east of <apo Ileila a Ca?.a Tepe. Rut these two landing put ties were instantly .-heeked nnd until th? hist few <iays could make no progre-? whatever. Once the main force was ashore it moved up the toe of th? boot, ?tret.-hh bj a line straight across the peninsula. But ?ifter having progressed for some thre? rnlles it reached the first strung defensi?.? position, that of Achi Baba. Here a line of hills stretches straight across the penin ? sill?, rising abruptly from the Gulf of I Saros to BB elevation of 400 feat and from the Straitt to MM) f??et. Midway ;. the penintula and just east of the viUhj*.? of Krithia It th? dominating hill of \.lu Biaba, 19a "???' high. Against thi-? positioi the Allied for?ai moved on the first dav after they lar..led, but they were halted there, and lave bean pnable to Baejp Bl substantial Bf sasj Second and Third Iriea. Meant in? a -e< ond force lamb"! BOOT! Gaba Top? ?rat designed to naov? louth rrosi the instep, thus arriving in th. ? . of the Achi Buba position and compelling the Tasks to retire from it. But this force wa- no less promp'ly checked along the face of the Sari Bahr hill. The third and last attack was made north of Sari Bahr, the landing takinic ?dace m the broad roadstead bet -?via Cape and the .??award slopes of San The Object treu, to seize the rulgc of hill- ?? .tending from Sari Bahr no-th la tward t.? tho Gulf of Saros, marked on the map rianafart and knoarn in the te ports by the name of Anafarta. to ge* hold of Sari Bahr and flow ever the who!? range down upon the roadway a' tho foot, which is the only landward line tif communications of th Turk? on th? ; llora than 100,000 men treta use?! m momenta! ily suece.?.? ful; Bari Bahr, the key o\ the peninsula. .raptad, but the Turk? rct.>ok it.S'.-i Bved to hold a petition of ?he ert l ? I of the Anafarta range. This operation Ciaaltatasd <st> aasss .i sasat ?