TURKS ABANDON THE PERSIAN GULF

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2316, 25 November 1914, Page 5

TURKS ABANDON THE PERSIAN GULF

INCONTINENT FLIGHT BALKAN STATES AND THE TRIPLE ENTENTE London, November 28. The Press Bureau states that the Turkish forces in the Persian Gulf have 'abandoned their resistance and fled, leaving eight guns , and many prisoners. A report from Paris Btatos that the Turks pillaged a French' Dank at Jerusalem and arrested the French Consul, General Aivailikj as hostage, and sent him to the interior., ' (Reo. November 4, 11.30 p.m.) . London, November 24. Official.—The British occupied! BaHra (on the Persian Gulf) on November 21. The Turks have fled from the Tigris Valley.:

Basra, (epelt also Busra, Busreh, Bussorah), in Turkey-in-Asia, is about) two or threejnilea up the A6tar Creek, which joins the Shat-el-Arab about 60 miles from its mouthm, at the head of the navigable channel for ocean steamers. The district is celebrated for its dates. The population includes Arabs (principally), Persians, Jews, 'Armenians, and Christians, PLOT ON THE SULTAN'S LIFE. ; V; j' , t Bucharest, November 23. 'Arrests are occurring daily at Constantinople in consequence of an attempted assassination <of the Sultan, Mehined V. It is suspected the Sultan's heir, Youssouf Izzedin, participated in the plot. ■ • . . ~ — - .- ,| , - DIPLOMACY AND THE TURBULENT BALKANS THE PULSE OF ,THE NEUTRAL STATES, ' Sofia, November 28. The newspaper "Retsh" says that Prince Trubetskoi has left for Belgrade to take up, the duties of Russian Minister. He will proffer serious arguments in favour of the renewal of the Serbo-Bulgarian Alliance. The position in regard to Boumania is ako becoming clearer. Special'significance attaches to recent conferences at Petrograd, between the Italian Ambassadors and the Servian, and Rumanian Ministers, recalling the rumourß that Italy and Rumania had agreed to pursue parallel .tactics, The entire group of southern neutral States is at once mobilising, emphasising the enorrmaa service that German taotics at Constantinople! have renderedl the Entente. , BIG ITALIAN VOTE FOR ARMY AND NAVY 'STRATEGIC RAILWAYS ON .VENETIAN FRONTIER. , i (Rec. November 24, 10.20 p.m.) ' ' , Rome, November 24. The Italian Cabinet has decreed the expenditure of _an additional eight million sterling for the Navy, making a total of forty millions for the Army and Navy since Signor Salandra's accession to the Premiership, and has also voted £250,000 for strategic railways on the Venetian frontier (which marches on Austrian territory), and authorised the formation of five new artillery regiments. . ITALIAN AMBASSADOR IN L'ONDON SUMMONED TO ROME. - _ _ ; London, November 23. Marquis Imperial!'di Francavilla, the Italian 'Ambassador, has been recalled to Rome for the purpose of a conference. - . ' Rome, November 23. Italian flags are secretly hoisted on the publio buildings at Trieste at night. ' r .