TURKISH FAMILIES LEAVING CONSTANTINOPLE

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2492, 21 June 1915, Page 5

TURKISH FAMILIES LEAVING CONSTANTINOPLE

BRITISH SUBMARINE SUCCESSES ALARM THE COUNCIL OF WAR London, June 18. The "Times" correspondent at Constantinople says that Turkish families are emigrating to Asia. . . The recent success of the British submarine (including tho sinking of tlireo transports near Nagara) has alarmed the Council of War. Several Turkish destroyers have been specially detailed to pursue the submarine. Tho activities of the Turkish fleet lias been markedly restricted conseQuenb 011 the exploit. If tho attacks aro renewed, it has been decided to sink several old ships in the narrowest part of the Dardanelles, so as to restrict tho passage. Factories i\re closing owing to lack of coal. The Anatolian railways will shortly cease running, the principal cause being tho Russian fleet's destruction of the collieries at Znnguldac. There are four German submarines at Constantinople, one large and three small. The former arrived via Gibraltar, the others overland. GREAT FIRE IN THE FASHIONABLE SUBURB OF CONSTAT TINOPLE. (Roc. June 20, ;t.50 ji.ni.) Amsterdam, June 1!). Tim "I'Y.'inlil'ui'Wr .-lales thai. twenty Armenians wore executed cm Tuosdav in from, of tho .Ministry ol War on a charge of inciting [.ho public to establish an independent Annciiiu. An 'iccidoiitiii-1 lire dcstrc.vc'l lil'ieea hundred Turkish houses m the fash.iaiublc JPota quarter of Constantinople,