TURKISH WARSHIPS SHELL RUSSIAN VILLAGE

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2315, 24 November 1914, Page 5

TURKISH WARSHIPS SHELL RUSSIAN VILLAGE

BLACK SEA COAST MINED / __ A BRITISH DESTROYER'S CAPTURE Petrograd, November 22. Official advices from; the Caucasus state that the Turkish cruiser HamidieE and several destroyers bombarded Touapse (a Russian coast village in Kutais). Several Russians were killed or wounded. ■ It is now announced that the Russian coast in the Black Sea has been mined for sixty miles seaward in many places. . Athens, November 22. 'A British destroyer captured a Turkish sailing ship bound for Smyrna, with two disguised German officers on board. (Recj (November 23, 9.40 p.m.) London, November 23. 'A force of 80,000 Turkish troops, under German officers, comprises the garrison at Smyrna. The fort is guarded with mines. ' / . TURKISH REPORT OP r A' BRITISH REVERSE, (Rec. November 24, 0.25 a.m.) Constantinople, November 23. Official. —Turkish troops have reached the Suez Canal, the British euffer(ing loss near Kantara, from whence they eventually fled. FUTURE CONTROL' OF. THE DARDANELLES. Petrograd, November 22. A leading article in the Petrograd journal "Novoe Vremya" expresses tho conviction that Turkey's notion against England and Russia possesses a useful aspect, because it will dissipate the ancient prejudice regarding the control of the Dardanelles. PORTE EXPLAINS THE TENNESSEE INCIDENT. i Washington, November '12. The Porto explains that tho shot fired at tho Tennessee's launch was intended as a warning that mines had been laid. — —- 'A'GENTLE HINT TO RUMANIA'. Petrograd, November 22. M. Jone.seu, Ministc-r of tho Interior, in a telegram to tho "Vetcheriioy© Vremya," states that all Rumania's interests and future are inseparably bound up in a victory for tho Triple Entonte. German victory would imply tha burial of all the Balkan Stiiics and tho hopca of noHtfstl State's maintaining •'■Wr, Independence,

BIKANIR OAMEL CORPS IN 'ACTION* (Rec. November 28, 9.40 p.m.) Cairo, November 23. Outpost fighting has been reported by the Biiarnr camel corps on the Egyptian frontier. Thirteen camel corps men are missing. 'A number of Turks were killed.