Eeview of Reviews, 1/3/13. 



PROGRESS OF THE WORLD. 



the formidable Turkish Hnes. Fierce 

 fighting is taking place on the penin- 

 sula of Gallipoli, which now is the key 

 to Constantinople. Izzet Pasha, who is 

 in supreme command of the Sultan's 

 troops, sent Enver Bey, at the head of 

 60,000 troops, to land at Ergeli, on the 

 sea of Marmora, with the object of 

 taking the investing army before Cha- 

 talja in the rear. A very obvious piece 

 •of strategy frustrated by the Bul- 



The Value of Sea Power. 



This war has again demonstrated 

 the immense importance of control of 

 the sea. The Allies owe far more to 

 the Greek fleet than is generalh- recog- 

 nised. The command of the sea was 

 vital to them in the last campaign. It 

 enabled the Hellenic fleet to bottle up 

 the Turkish ships m the Sea of Marmora. 



It has left the sea free to the Greek 

 transports, which have poured men, 



WATCHING A CITY STARVE! 

 Servian troops in the tren^rhes before Adrianople. 



:garians, who forced the Turks back 

 to their ships with severe loss. The 

 Allies will make every endeavour to 

 capture the Turkish forts in Gallipoli, 

 as these give control of the Dardan- 

 elles. Once in possession of this strait, 

 they have Constantinople at their 

 mercy, for the Greek battleships could 

 enter the Sea of Marmora, sweep away 

 the Ottoman fleet, and have the "Pearl 

 of the East " defenceless before their 



guns. 



munitions of war, and food supplies 

 into Thrace. Almost all the Greek mer- 

 chantmen, second in numbers in the 

 Eastern Mediterranean only to the 

 British, have been requisitioned for 

 this purpose. The fleet prevented any 

 coal being landed for the Turkish rail- 

 wa}'s, and thus paralysed the Ottoman 

 transport throughout Asia Minor, de- 

 laying in consequence for many weeks 

 tlie arrival of reinforcements of sea- 

 soned troops to the ill-trained and 



