GERMAN HOPES IN THE NEAR EASTERN WAR

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2327, 8 December 1914, Page 5

GERMAN HOPES IN THE NEAR EASTERN WAR

BASED ON THE "HOLY WAR' , TURKS CONCENTRATING ON BULGAR FRONTIER ' • London, December 5. r A' Zurich! journalist, after a tour of Germany, declares that, while much dissatisfaction is caused by the defeats of the Austrians, the Germans are still convinced they are going to win. Great hopes are reposed in the jehad (Holy War), which German intrigue is endeavouring to foment amongst the followers of Islam. The populace is daily expecting to tear of serious disturbances in India; ' ■> OMINOUS MUSTERINGS ON TtFRKO-BULGARIAN LINE. ; . , ■ ("Times" and Sydney ."Sun." Services.)' •\* London, Deoemb'er 5. Turkish forces have concentrated between Enos, Adrianople, Kirke Killissee, and the frontier. Bulgaria has aggregated three hundred thousand men, who are well supplied with powerful artillery, and divided into two armies.SIR EDWIN PEARS ARRESTED IN CONSTANTINOPLE. ■ . ', Constantinople, December 6. Sir Edwin Pears has been arrested and his offices searched. Talaat Bey (Minister^for the Interior) threatens that unless two persons, presumably Turkish- emissaries, who w ere arrested at Port Said are released forthwith he will seize the Britishers a s hostages. Sir Edwin Pears settled in Constantinople in 1873, practising in the Consular Courts. Hβ became President of the European Bar in that city in 1881. As correspondent of the London "Daily News," he sent letters in May and June, 1876, on the Moslem atrocities in Bulgaria, two of which were published in Blue Books and 'awakened widespread interest, which was followed by popular demonstrations led by Mr. W. E. Gladetone.