TURKS DEFEATED NEAR ERZERUM

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2322, 2 December 1914, Page 5

TURKS DEFEATED NEAR ERZERUM

POSITIONS ABANDONED RELIGIOUS AGITATORS AND THE HOLY WAR * - , ™ _ , ' London, November 30. t The Petrograd! correspondent of "Le Matin" says that the Turks have abandoned positions at Koprukoi, twenty-five miles East of Erzerum, and the flying in disorder towards Erzerum. The Russians are in. pursuit. _ edition of the "New York Herald" states that the Turks have seized the Allies' banks and other establishments in Palestine. The Russians, in capturing Turkish trenohes. at Erzerum, found many Turks who had been lying together for warmth, frozen to death.. - STIRRING UP RELIGIOUS ANTAGONISMS INFLAMMATORY EXHORTATIONS FROM THE' MINARETS. rm.tr- i ii. „• „. Athens, November 30. liie Uojas. trom the Minarets at Beirut (in Syria), exhorted the populace to massacre Christians and Europeans whenever the Entente Powers' warships appear. • '

ITALIAN .WARSHIPS SENT. TO THE AFFECTED COAj' ' ] Rome, November 30. Owing to the threatening situation In Asia Minor and Palestine, following the declaration of a Holy War, the Italian Government dispatched four steamers to embark Italians there. The cruiser Calabria has been ordered 1 to Syria to protect the Italians. CRITICAL MOHAMMEDAN FESTIVAL SAFELY OVER, Teheran, November SO. The festhal of Moharram (the first month of the Mohammedan year, and observed as an occasion of fasting and mourning in commemoration of the sufferings of Hassan and Hussein, nephews of the Prophot), passed without the slightest hostility towards the Russians. The Holy War proclamation from Constantinople was ignored. The festival (which is considered to be a critical time on account of the intensity of religious fanaticism and the danger of riots) was also held under tranquil circumstances in India. GOEBEN'S ENGINES SERIOUSLY DAMAGED, ('."Times" and Sydney. "Sun" Servioea.) (Reo, December 1, 6.50 p.m.) ' London, November 30. The "New. York Herald" learns that the German-Turkish cruiser-battle-Bhip Goeben is lying opposite Sherapia,in the Bosphorus. The Russian 'shells eenously damaged her engines, and hundreds of workmen aro engaged in repairing them.