From ‘News of the Week’, The Spectator, 6 March 1915:
THE advance made during the week by our naval force in the Dardanelles has been most satisfactory. As we write our ships are engaged with the great group of forts at the Narrows, while in the Gulf of Saros, opposite the neck of the Gallipoli Peninsula, French and British ships have doubled the bombardment and have been able to take some of the enemy’s works in reverse. By the time these pages are in our readers’ hands it is most probable that the action in the Narrows, where the Straits are only about half a mile broad, will have been decided. Nothing above ground, whether of earth or stone, is able to stand the fire of the Allies’ squadron, which numbers in all some fifty-two vessels. One of them, the ‘Queen Elizabeth,’ carries the moat powerful guns of any ship afloat. Her 15 in.
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