damage; the _Gaulois_
had been hit again and again, with the result that she had a hole
in her hull and her upper works were damaged badly. Fire had broken
out on the _Inflexible_, and a number of her officers and crew
had been either killed or wounded. The day ended with the forts
still able to return a lively fire to all attacks, and "The Great
Attempt" on the part of the allied fleets had failed.

On the other end of the passage there had also been some naval
operations, when, on March 28, 1915, the Black Sea Fleet of the
Russian navy had bombarded the forts on the Bosphorous. Smyrna was
again attacked on April 6, 1915. The operations of allied submarines
were the next phases of the attack on the Dardanelles to be reported.
The _E-5_ grounded near Kephez Point on April 17, 1915, but before
she could be captured by the Turks picket boats from the allied
fleet rescued her crew and then destroyed her. It was just two
months now since the naval operations had begun at the Dardanelles;
it was seen then that all attempts to take them by naval operations
alone must fail as did the attack of March 18, 1915.

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CHAPTER XVII

GERMAN RAIDERS AND SUBMARINES

The next important event in the naval history of the war occurred
in far-distant waters. On March 10, 1915, there ended the wonderful
career of the German auxiliary cruiser _Prinz Eitel Friedrich_,
Captain Thierichens, which on that date put in at the American
port of Newport News, Va., for repairs, after making the harbor
in spite of the watch kept on it by British cruisers. She brought
with her more than 500 persons, 200 of them being her own crew,
and the remainder being passengers and crews of French, British,
Russian, and American ships that had been her victims in her roving
over 30,000 miles of the Atlantic and Pacific oceans since leaving
Tsing-tau seven months before.

She had sent eight merchant ships to the bottom, one of them being
the _William P. Frye_, an American vessel carrying wheat, three
British ships, three flying the French flag, and one Russian ship.
Their total tonnage came to 18,245. The fact that she had sunk an
American ship on the high seas opened up still another diplomatic
controversy between Germany and the United States, which cannot
be treated here.

When she left Tsing-tau she took as her crew the men from the German
gunboats _Tiger_ and _Luchs_, and had their four 4.1-inch and some of
thei