RUMANIA'S BLOCKADE MADE ABSOLUTE.

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2559, 6 September 1915, Page 5

RUMANIA'S BLOCKADE MADE ABSOLUTE.

(Rec. September 5, 3.10 p.m.) • ' Bucharest, September 4. Tho prohibition of wheat export across the Rumanian frontier is absolute. Tile Government is advaorang the growers sixty per cent, of the value, and lias also forbidden gold transit, thus preventing Germany from sending money to Turkey. THE RECENT DEVEPOPMENTS IN GALLIPOU AN: UNPLEASANT SURPRISE TO GERMAFCR.ITIOS. (Rec. September 5, 3.10 p.m.) „ Rotterdam! September 4. German comments on the recent developments in the Dardanelles indicate that the military experts have been surprised. They warn tho Germans against, their former cocksureness, and say: "We roust not under-estimato this British doggeditess." The British, it is admitted, expected many disappointments before tliey achieved final success, and did not expect important Anglo-French reinforcements to be sent, while Italian Help is also onore likely, which will gravely increase Turkey's difficulties. / LANDING RAIDERS FROM BRITISH SUBMARINES „ ' Athens, September 4. Seamen •who were landed' on the shores of the Gulf of Ismid (in Asi» Minor), from a British submarine, partly dynamited the-railway bridfre at Gobit-ze, ajid returned unharmed. '- TURKISH: OFFICIAL' COMMUNIQUE. . (Rec. September 5, 3.30 p.m;) » Constantinople, September '4, A Turkish official comnnmique_states: "Our right wing artillery dispersed aa enemy's battalion which was drilling." . : ".Wo silenced two hostile guns near Kereves Dere."FIRE'AND'MASSACRE AT ISMID, Athens, September '4. , _ The; Turks have set fire to Ismid (at the head of the Gulf of Ismid, in Asia, Minor), massacring the whole of the population, ' . KAISER'S MESSAGE TO ENTER- PASHA'. ■ (Rec. September. 5, 4.30 p.m.)' . . . i Amsterdam, September, 4. Tlie Kaiser, m decorating Enver Pasha, wrote bidding him to "continue to ■ keep a good lvatcli oil the Dardanelles."-