20 MARCH 1915, Page 2

From the Dardanelles there is not much news, due no

doubt to the fact that the operations have now reached a critical stage, and that the publication of the progress made might be injurious. All we know is that we have cleared the Straits for about eleven milea, but that the problem of how to get through the Narrows without too great loss still confronts rm. It is stated that the ' Amethyst,' in the course of certain operations, was hit many times by the enemy's shells and that the casualties on board her were severe. We have no official knowledge of the nature of the work in which the 'Amethyst' was engaged.