March 18, 1916, 
EAND AND HiATEK. 
By far the most powerful group of batteries 
lie upon the slope of the Pasha Dagh between the 
escarpment at B and the water at its foot, and of 
these, again, it would seem that the most powerful 
.was just outside, and to the south of, the buildings 
at Kilidbahr, at the point marked 1. It is here. 
according to the report, that the first battery was 
blown up on Thursday. The further batteries in 
this group stood upon the hillside at 2, 3, and 4, 
and an especially powerful one, apparently, at 5, 
facing the northern approach to the Narrows. 
Between 5 and 3 a group of two minor works stood 
upon the slope, and four other main batteries lay, 
the one between 2 and 3, one behind 3, and two 
more between No. 5 and the shore and to the north 
of No. 6. Altogether, eleven permanent works 
seem^ to have been established on this projecting 
hillside within the limits of little more than a 
mile. A twelfth was established at Cape Dema, 
which I have numbered 6 upon the plan. 
Upon the opposite, or Asiatic shore, four 
principal works must be considered. One, just 
outside the town of Chanak (No. 7), close on the 
water, was particularly powerful and fast, with 
two 14-iiich guns, and corresponded to its twin 
work (1) upon the European shore. Half a mile 
further south Hamidieh, No. 8, defended the 
Narrows in their southward aspect from the 
Asiatic side, and it seems to have been upon thesa 
two works, 7 and 8, that the greater part of the 
fire from down the Strait was concentrated. 
Supposing these formidable works to ba 
reducea (the works below them towards the ^gean 
have already been silenced), there still remains, 
before the whole passage of the Narrows is in the 
hands of the Allied Fleet, a group of further 
works on the Asiatic side, strong batteries at 9, 
10, 11, right along the shore up to a low elevation 
on the Nagara Point itself at 14, and a smaller 
work behind Abydos Point at 15; while on the 
European side a somewhat less formidable series 
are to be found, roughly, at the points 16, 17, 300 
feet above the water, crowning a very steep slopa 
at 18, and one similarly placed at 400 feet up, ati' 
W, and a similar work at 20. But all these bat- 
teries above, or north of the Narrows, would seem 
to depend ultimately upon the Narrows them- 
selves. If the great group of works between the 
two lines C D and E F can be reduced, the problem 
of the Dardanelles is solved, although there 
remains a lengthy task for the Allied Fleet before 
the Sea of Marmora is reached. 
It is worthy of remark that the shores are 
steep on everywhere, and that there is plenty of 
water, except in the bight below Chanak, in the 
shaded portion inside Sari Siglar Bay, where the 
soundings vary from two to four fathoms, where a 
five-fathom line comes well out from the shore and 
a small strip just north of Chanak from Sari 
Siglar Bay ; but neither of these bits of water il 
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