RUSSIAN BLACK SEA FLEET IN ACTION

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2356, 12 January 1915, Page 5

RUSSIAN BLACK SEA FLEET IN ACTION

TURKISH WARSHIPS DAMAGED FINANCIAL CRISIS AT CONSTANTINOPLE n • •■«•■«• i .-L , „ ■„' Potrograd, January 10. It is semi-officially announced that the Russian Fleet fought the cruisers Breslau and Hamidieh on January 6, inflicting serious damage. The Fleet destroyed a number of the enemy's steamers and sailing vessels at Sinope. Trebizond, and elsewhere. • On January 8 the Fleet bombarded Phopa at night. It is reported that the gunboat Peiki-i-Shevket (740 tons, two 4-inch guns and smaller armament, 22 knots, built m 1907), was badly damaged. _ [Khopa is just below Batum, in the Black Sea, but in Turkish territory being the frontier port.] •" PORTE IN FINANCIAL STRAITS CONFISCATION OF OTTOMAN BANK FUNDS., ' ~,.,. „ . • , Sofia, January 10. _ A telegram from Constantinople states that the Porte's financial situation is acute, and_ the Porte is placing the Constantinople Board of the Ottoman Bank provisionally under a moratorium during the war. To provide financial relief, the Porte evidently intends confiscating the bank's funds. fa . GREEKS PERSECUTED IN ASIA MINOR WANTON MURDERS OF INOFFENSIVE PEOPLE. mi.- m_ i ■ .• ,• * , .. , Athens, January 10. . . *■£* i " r . ks are not satisfied with the expulsion of 120,000 ' Greeks from Asia Minor in the autumn, and the persecution has beon renewed Official messages have been published detailing wanton murders of inoffensive Greeks at Kinadj.Barudjuk, Ligia, and other villages. \ Requisitions amounting to confiscation are enforced upon, the Christians Meanwhile numerous destitute Greeks have taken refuge in Smyrna, • ' .i • ', t, . , Home, January 10. Advices from Beirut state that all French and Greek residents have been sent to Damascus under police supervision. Two Englishmen, for attemotinor to escape from Beirut, were sent to Damascus in chfjns. ' GREAT ENTHUSIASM IN CALCUTTA. An Italian steamer reports that there is the greatest en'thusiasni in' Calcutta. Everyone is confident of victory in Egypt. THE TURKISH ADVANCE ON EGYPT. (Rec. January 11, 5.55 p.m.) The Turkish' Army in Syria has been equipped with camels for the advance on Egypt.-("Times" and Sydney "Sun" Services.) NEW ZEALANDERS REVIEWED AT CAIRO. ' /(Rec. January 11, 9.15 p.m.) r, , „ „ „ ..., „ , . ' . Cairo, January 11. General Maxwell, British Commander-in-Chief in Egypt, and General Birdwood, commanding the Australian and New Zealand 'forces, have Teviewod the New Zealanders. The Hon. T. Mackenzie, High Commissioner for New Zealand, addressed the men, and said that they would proceed to the front immediately they were fit. THREATENED MASSACRE OF CHRISTIANS GRIM HINT TO A BALKAN STATE. (Rec. January 12, 0.50 a.m.)' London, January 11. The "Daily Mail's" Cairo correspondent says that while Zeke Pasha recently declared at Damascus that a slaughter of Christians, would follow any bombardment of the coast, the Sheikhs Damascus during the sermon protested" that the present was not a holy war, adding: "We are allied to Christians against Christians." The "Daily Telegraph's" Athens corresDondent savs that the -German 'Ambassador at Constantinonle has warned a Minister of a Bnlkan State that in the event of the Allies' fleet forcing ths Dardsnslles the Turks would massacre the Christian population. RUMANIAN INTERVENTION "A SETTLED MATTER" WILL' ENTER THE WAR NEXT MONTH. (Rec. January 11, 11.30 p.m.) nf tv ' j 73 • j t t. •t. • Par,s ' January 11. M. Diamandy, a Rumanian deputy, has been interviewed here. He savs that Rumanian intervention is "a settled matter," and will occur at the end of February. STUBBOKN FIGHTING IN RUSSO-TURKISH THEATRE. (Rec. January 12, 0.50 a.m.) n<c • i «r- „■ i ,l • crr Patrograd, January 11. Official.—"Fighting in the environs of Karaurgan continues stubbornly. At other fronts the situation is unchanged."