The news from the Dardanelles daring the past week has
been very scanty. This Las been chiefly due to the very stormy weather which has prevailed in the Straits. The minesweepers are reported to be working with the spray breaking over them in showers. No doubt as soon as the weather improves we shall bear of a fresh attack upon the forts. Owing to the recent inactivity of the Allied squadrons, the Turks, it is stated, have been able to repair their works and to bring ner guns into position, replacing those destroyed by the first bombardment. That was only to be expected, but is all probability these repairs will not very greatly affect the situation. The superiority • of gunfire possessed by the war- ships is overwhelming. If it is true, as reported, that the Turks have only ten thousand men in the narrow peninsula on the European side of the Straits, we ought soon to hear of a successful landing operation in that region.
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