THE TURKISH CAMPAIGN

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2517, 19 July 1915, Page 5

THE TURKISH CAMPAIGN

SITUATION CRITICAL

MANY OLD TURKS MURDERED., '' - ' Br, Telegraph—Press TAssotiation-rCopyiigJit London, July 16. The "Eftily Chronicle" Athens correspondent states that M. tary to the French Embassy,. was recently expelled froui Constantinople. ; The correspondent regards the situa-' tion as critical. Many old Turks have been murdered and thrown, into tho Eos* pllOl-US. - :r - • ■ •' J Tho : Germans 'doi'ilot'.conceal' many's intention to make Turkey a Ger-f jnaiv protectorate.": Allies'-subjects" are'interned in the interior of Asia Minor.

VIVID IMAGINATION OF THE" ■ TURKS. • : London, July. 16. !A.' wireless message, circulates-a Turk* ish report asserting that--the'Turks repulsed'''an aittack' : -at tlie "Dardanelles, and that the enemy in fleeing fell into precipitous ..

RESULTLESS FJGHTIXff. (Rec." July 18, 7 p.m) ' At'icns, July 17.Resultless fighting is-proceedinj; at' ~ Gallipoli. both attacks, and: cow.terattacks neing equally repulsed By either, / side. v

~ RU.SSIAHS,SINK,A.SUBMARINE. Athens, July' 16. Advicesrfrom i Variia: .'state;■tnat~thoi; Russians have sunk 1151 in the Black Sea. . . . ~ .. POURPARLERS BROKEN OFF. :'i ("Times 5 ' aiid Sydney "Sun" Servfcos.£ (Rcsc. ,'July : 17, '7 p.iri;) ''. • r London, July 16. * Messages'frorn 'Salonika declare'that I '' the. pourparlers between Bulgaria and Turkey have been broken'off, consequent ; upon German successes in Galicia. The Turks refuse to cede territory at De-. motika, arid upon .the contrary hope to" possess themselves of the whole of the Adrianople-Dedegatch railway.

ASSASSINATION PLOT. Athens, July 16. Telegrams from Constantinople. d#« scribe a plot to .assassinate, M. .Venizelos (ox-Premier of Greece).