The story of the great war . con-dition for the time being. She could bring no aid to theAllies by engaging the Austrians and Germans in the east,for some time to come. In face of her defeats, the Rus-sian government declared its purpose to stay in the waruntil the end. The Germans not being able to crush herhopelessly on the battlefield, tried another method whichwas much more successful. And the fruits of it came inthe form of the Revolution nearly two years later. Gallipoli the Tragic The world awoke one morning towards the end ofFebruary, 1915, to hear the echoes of the great guns onthe Fr
The story of the great war . con-dition for the time being. She could bring no aid to theAllies by engaging the Austrians and Germans in the east,for some time to come. In face of her defeats, the Rus-sian government declared its purpose to stay in the waruntil the end. The Germans not being able to crush herhopelessly on the battlefield, tried another method whichwas much more successful. And the fruits of it came inthe form of the Revolution nearly two years later. Gallipoli the Tragic The world awoke one morning towards the end ofFebruary, 1915, to hear the echoes of the great guns onthe French and British battleships roaring at the mouthof the Dardanelles. It knew those echoes meant a greatadventure, but how tragic that adventure would be noone could foresee. Only the world was thrilled because itbelieved that those thunderous guns, belching death anddestruction upon the Turkish forts, were a prophecy ofthe fall of Constantinople. The Turks captured the cityin the thirteenth century under Mohammed II and have. Fainting by Edgar F. Witt mackCourtesy of the Scientific American © Miinn & Inc. TUK THFXDKR OF THE BRITISH GUNS AWOKE THE ECHOES OF THE DARDANELLES THE CAMPAIGNS OF 1915 157 held it ever since. Here the oldest existing Christianchurch, St. Sophia, was located; the Crusaders had oc-cupied the city for a number of years, and many Christiannations desired to have it under Christian rule. The his-tory of the Turks since they made Constantinople thecapital of their empire was one long series of crueltyrannies over all the Christian peoples whom they ruledin Europe and Asia. You can imagine then, how theroar of the Allied battleships raining death and destruc-tion upon the Turkish forts thrilled the world with a greathope—the hope of at last driving the Turk out of Con-stantinople and Europe. The English Admiral promised to be in Constantinopleby Easter, but a month after the bombardment began,that is by March 18th, and though the ships had gone somedis
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