STUFFING THE TURKEY.

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2428, 6 April 1915, Page 6

STUFFING THE TURKEY.

GERMAN NEWS ITEMS FOR OTTOMAN EARS. i.-v','-.. London, February 12. Some of,,the war news published in German' noivspapers ma Ices amusing reading . r .outside Germany, because of the preposterous stories of the achievements of German arms, which are circulated foiCthe .consumption of German readers,'.,but nothing published in Germany- can; compare' with the picturesque aßsurcUties 'with which Turkish. readers are .! supplied by their newspapers through, the,. agency of the Press Bureau at Constantinople;' Tho "Sabat," in'its issue of December 3,.announced that the First Ottoman Army Corps had been' conveyed to an unmcntioned destination by 25 Gorman- balloons, and would "inflict a crushing defeat on tho infidels." Three days later, the "Terdjiman 1-Agkier" was. ahle : to: announce that Hadji Guiliioun (tho Kaiser William) was in Paris rccciving.'ffio homage of the French Government. "The .speech delivered last week by his Islamic Majesty William II from the throne set up in the ex-'Chamber of the French Parliament," said-this paper, "is a never-to-be-forgot-ten record of his great exploits. Surrounded by. the vanquished, he offered his .imperial _ hand to be kissed by all tho ex-deputies of the French Chamber, whoso hearts were touched by the magnanimity of. his Islamic Majesty." The story of how London escaped destruction at the hands 'of the victorious Kaiser is briefly indicated in the following announcement :—"A wireless telegram' from Amsterdam states that the British . Government 'has offered his Islamic Majesty '2000 asses laden with gold on condition that he will not attack London with his mighty fleet." , On December 8 the "Djerideh I-Shar-keyeh" recorded the following joyous item:—"According to a-wireless dispatch received at the German bureau from Belgium, the whole population of the new territory conquered by the Germans have taken tho oath of loyalty, to'his Islamic Majesty. All ranks and conditions of Belgians thronged in their thousands around tho German functionaries, and were converted to the true faith _of Islam. The Belgians are voluntarily transforming their churches into Mahometan temples. May their, good example be followed by tho rest of the infidels."

It has been announced throughout Turkey' that the Kaiser is a descendant of a sister of tho Prophet, and that the whole of tho German people have embraced the Mahometan faith. Constantinople is forward to an early visit from tho Kaiser, which the "Hanmular Ghazettaseh" of lskudar announces in the following terms:— "The harem of his Islamic Majesty William II and the baroms of his staff will arrive at Constantinople in tho beginning of spring. Ten of the most powerful British Dreadnoughts captured \>y the Germans will' escort tho imperial harem." Admiration is expressed in Paris for the fact, which has just become known, that Commander Briggs's raid upon the Zeppelin factory at Friedrichshafen was especially timed so that the airmen' should arrive ovor tho works in the dinner hour, and thus run no danger of killing or wounding civilians and inoffonsiyo workmen. Britain's Royal Army Medical Corps draws upon the Army Service Corps for its transport drivers. . gnjff.- sa FJjj&qzol &as .Catarrh,"-