SULTAN'S HOLY WAR

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2337, 19 December 1914, Page 5

SULTAN'S HOLY WAR

A DECLARATION Amsterdam, December 17. A dispatch'from Constantinople says that the Sultan has declared that the actions-of the Allies compelled- him to proclaim a holy war against the Christian world in defence of a concerted policy which threatened.the destruction of Mohammedanism. ' TURKISH TROOPS SHELLED, BY A, BRITISH-SQUADRON. Atheinii, December 17. A! British; squadron, bombarded Turkish troops On the Gulf of Saros, on Sunday last. The Gulf of Saros, in the Aegean Sea, Turkey in Europe, lies between Thrace ondi the Peninsula of Gallipoli. A GERMAN RUSE. TO GAIN MUSSULMAN FAVOUR. London, December 17. In order to gab Mussulman favour, Germans in Turkey pretend to have embraced the Islamio faith, and pray in the mosques, sentinels' being posted outside. _ Some wear armlets ' bearing the Turkish words 1 : "There is but one God, and Mohammed is his Prophet." GERMAN STEAMER SUNK, BY A RUSSIAN WARSHIP. Petrograd, December 17. Official.—A Russian warship ordered the crew to leave the German steamer • Derintio near Kerason. Only two Turkish officers'and twelve soldiers obeyed. They were picked up. The Derintic was bombarded and blew up. Kerason is a seaport on the Blaok Sea, 70 miles west of Trebizond. There is no steamer named Derintio in Lloyd's Register. The vessel was probably the Derindjo, a steamer of 3873 tons, owned by the German Levant Line, Hamburg. TUTELAGE OF TURKEY, GERMANS IN THE CABINET. .■ (Rec. December 18, 10.5 p.m.) Sofia, December 18. Advices from Constantinople state that Field-Marshal Von dor Goltz has been appointed military commander at Constantinople, and Acting-War Minister; the German Admiral Suchom is the temporary Marine Minister; Euver Pasha commander of the troops in Anatolia ; Djemel Pasha commander in Syria. ' It is reported that a number of Turkish officers suicided at Adriauople, where the troops are suffering from lack of provisions. A VICE-CONSUL'S EXPERIENCE. IMPRISONED IN CONSTANTINOPLE (Rcc. December 18, 10.5 p.m.) „ , -Sofia, December 18. Ilio Rugflsfl V|jss,Cfl'i!si!! a* tb Dftf= . Mm.

gatoh, states that he was imprisoned in. a dungeon with otherß for a month in Constantinople ,and was released only when the Italian Ambassador threatened to leave. ' REVOLVERS AND DAGGERS, A SIGNIFICANT FIND. . (Reo'. December 18, 10.5 p.m.)' Rome, December 18. Tho confiscation of five hundred revolvers and 250 daggers, discovered in & German officer's empty house in Tripoli, is causing excitement, POSITION OF EGYPT DECLARED A. BRITISH PROTECTORATE. t . London, December 17., Official.—Owing to the war with Turkey, Egypt has been declared a British Protectorate, with Sir Arthur M'Mahon as High Commissioner. Sir Arthur Henry M'Mahon, K.C.1.E., G.C.V.0., C.5.1., has been Foreign Secretary to the Government of India since TURKEY'S SUZERAINTY,, TERMINATED IN EGYPT, (Rec. December 18, 8.45 p.m.)' .' London, December 18. Sir Edward Grey's (Foreign Minister) notice announcing a 'protectorate., over Egypt, states that in view of the state of war arising out of Turkey's action, Turkey's suzerainty in Egypt is terminated, and Britain will adopt all measures for the defence of Egypt and the protection of its inhabitants and in- | terests.