Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 168, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 July 1915 — Santiago and the Dardanelles. [ARTICLE]

Santiago and the Dardanelles.

For Americans, the parallel of Santiago instantly comes to mind. Even after the Spanish fleet had left the harbor and there were to be faced only the weak batteries on Socapa Point, the naval authorities left it to the army to reduce the city, contenting themselves with bombarding by indirect and, as it turned out, ineffective fire. If the entrance to Santiago was narrower than that to the Sea of Marmora, it was far shorter and infinitely less! well covered by artillery. For the allies, the defeat at the Straits was a demonstration that the work of the ships must be supplemented by that of an army, as at Santiago.—Frank H. Simonds in the American Review of Reviews.