HEAVY FIGHTING IN'ARMENIA

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2334, 16 December 1914, Page 5

HEAVY FIGHTING IN'ARMENIA

RUSSIANS DEFEAT THE TURKS J CHRISTIANS AT ERZERUM IN GRAVE PERIL , im , •. Petrograd, December 14. A' communique states: JLnere was all-day fighting on Friday at Pyrousk, Esraer, and Doutak, north of Lake Van, in Armenia. The enemy was everywhere repulsed with heavy, losses, and pursued beyond the Euphrates." ,- . „ . Cair °i December 14.' Refugees report that the Germans are testing a bridge at Lake- Tiberias (in Palestine), which is intended for use for the Suez Canal. LOYALTY OP AKAB SHEIKS AND EGYPTIANS. London, December 14. 'A British officer at Khartum states that the' proclamation of the war passed in a simply wonderful nißiuicr. AVithout exception there could be no suspicion of the absolute loyalty of the Arab Sheiks and"the Egyptian officers. . Cairo, December 14; . Arabs in Syria who are displaying unwillingness to invade Egypt are being replaced by Turks. . . • Sofia, Decomber 14. The Turks have informed the Libyans that the holy war is exclusively against Britain, France, and Russia. TURKEY'S VAIN HOPES FROM PERSIA. . London, December 14. The Young Turks are thunderstruck at Persia's decision to remain neutral. They had counted.on tHe Shah's support.to distract the British andfacilitato Turkish attacks on Egypt. SHADOW OF MASSACRE IN ARMENIA TERRIBLE POSITION OF THE CHRISTIANS. Petrograd, December 1-1. 'Armenian rofugeos describe the terrible position of twenty thousand Christians at Erzerum, whom the Turks threaten to massacre.owing to their Russian sympathies. Many Armenians and Greeks suspected of espionngo were hanged without trial. The corpses aro suspended to lamp-posts, and swing in the wind for weeks. The Turks passing spit on the bodies and compel the Christians to do likewise. . , German officers-control the situation. Fifty thousand Turkish soldiers and 1500 officers are quartered at Erzeniuu

_ London, December 14. Home papers exhibit growing alarm at the Mussulman unrest in AsiaMinor, and suggest that the Government should take immediate steps to repatriate fifty thousand Italians domiciled iu Asiatic Turkey.—"Times"- and Sydney "Sun" Services.MUTINY IN THE TURKISH, SOLDIERY, ■ ~, • , ' Paris, December 14. A message from Athens states there Is a fresh mutiny among the Turkish' troops at Adnanoplo and another at Selimic, near Scutari. ' f ~ KAISER WRITES TO BALKAN MONAROHS. n , .', , _. ,' London, December 14. Copenhagen states that Field-Marshal von der Goltz when at Sofia banded King Ferdinand of Bulgaria a long personal autograph letter from the Kaisor Ho carried another to Bucharest and a third to tho Sultan.—"Times"- and Sydney "Sun" Services. . . • (Rec. December 16, 0.15 a.m.) r. iit jr. ii • ~■ Sofia > December 15. General Von der Goltz, in an interview, declared that Bulgaria [should continue her present policy, and with Rumania receive a permanent extension of territory at the end of the war. INCIDENT ON GRAEOO-BULGARIAN FRONTIER. (Reo. December 15, 5.30 p.m.) Bulgaria h'as accepted a Greet proposal to set up a mixed commission to inquire into an incident on the Graeco-Bulgarian frontier.—("Times"- aad Sydney "Sun" Services.)