THE MIDDLE EAST.

Press, Volume LIV, Issue 16225, 4 July 1918, Page 8

THE MIDDLE EAST.

FAMINE IN PALESTINE. (By Cab!*.—Press Association.— -Copyright) (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) AMSTERDAM, July 1. The Jewish Correspondence Bureau publishes a letter describing terrible famine conditions in Northern Palestine. Prices of foodstuffs are extortionate and the people eat the grass growing on the graves. Hundreds or orphans nro wandering in a famished and naked state. Many people die of hunger in the .streets. GERMANS"IN PERSIA. MOSCOW, July 1. It is reported from Voronesh that the Germans "continue to advance with the utmost tenacity. They are also arming the German colonists in the Tabriz district. The People's Convention in tho Northern Caucasus has ordered immediate mobilisation owing to the continuous advance of the Germans. The latter have occupied T <flis, and are j organising the Austrian and German prisoners of war. AMERICA AND TURKEY. WASHINGTON, July 1. America has demanded that Turkey shall immediately explain the Tabriz incident. A recent report from Teheran (Persia)' stated that tne Turks sacked an America, hospital in Tabriz, and seized the British nnd American Consulates. The >Stato Department in Washington indicated that it was possible that these acts might be regarded as provocative of a declaration of war upon~Turkey. APPALLING CONDITIONS IN ARMENIA. (By Wireless.) LONDON July 2. An Armenian appeal reveals most appalling conditions, worse than any oP the war horrors so far revealed. The Turks massacred 2,000,000 people in Turkish Armenia and 2,000,000 in Russian Armenia are similarly threatened.