Heavy Turkish batteries are mounted on the surrounding heights.
These statements are made after a week spent in the Turkish field under the first personal pass issued to a newspaper correspondent by Field Marshal Liman von Sanders, the Commander in Chief of the Turkish Army.
The Turks are fighting confidently, aided by a few German machine gun squads.
The farthest advance made by the English at Ari Burnu is 1,000 yards from shore; at Sedd-el-Bahr, about two miles.
Have seen Forts Chanak and Kalid Bahr, and find they are still intact.
The net results of the English attempt to force the Dardanelles are at present almost nil.
The general impression at Constantinople and Berlin is that the attack as at present conducted is a failure.
The bombardment of March 18 was ineffectual, owing to the inadequacy of the landing forces, and the failure of the Entente powers to embroil Bulgaria against Turkey.