NEW TURKISH GENERALISSIMC.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1664, 3 February 1913, Page 5

NEW TURKISH GENERALISSIMC.

. IZZET I'ASIIA- APPOINTED. ■ v (Rec. February 2,.5.5 p.m.) ' 1 ■' Constantinople, February 1. j liszet Pasha. has been appointed Coni-taander-in-Chief of the Turkish Army. Ha has issued a general order calling on the troops to-maintain their glorious traditions.' > i , ■ Izzet Pasha < was Chief of StafF of tho Army of th© East, and was formerly Chief of . tho General Staff, and at ono timo Commander of the Turkish field forco Srhioh for so many years past has been •tyafling inconclusivo warfare against the frabelhous Arabs of tho Yemen., ADRIANOPLE STARVING. .SURRENDER DEMANDED. " ' . ■ Paris, January , 31.< • The "Matin's" correspondent at Sofia states that an escapee from Adrianople. fcays that the. provisions are exhausted. The civilians and soldiers demanded the Surrender of the town.., ■ ■ ■■.. There was great exoitement when tho Homancl was made for surrender, and pyrrol officers wero : !killed.. v : ;.. . ■ HOV/ NAZIM PASHA DIED. , A BRUTAL:BUTCHERY. . (Rec. February' 2, fi.s p.m.). iv Constantinople, February 1. 'Kiamil Pasha, the ex-Grand Vizier,: informed an interviewer that Nozim Pasha' tvas trst wounded : in : the .side, 1 and then shot in the head while lying on the iground.. TYPHUS OUTBREAK. ' MANY PRISONERS DEAD. . - (Rec. February 2, 5.5 p.m.) . Belgrade, February I'. 'An outbreak of typhus has occurred lunong.the.'Turkish.prisoners at Negotin. (There havo been 318 casos, and 140 deaths in ft few days. A doctor and eight nurses hava been infected.' • ARMS FOR SERVIA. (Rco. February 2, 5.5 p.m.) Belgrade, February 1. Twelve French quickfirers and - fourteen hundred tons of war material have been |ande<l at Salonika for iSorvia.