MERELY FOLLOWING OTHERS' EXAMPLE.

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2576, 25 September 1915, Page 5

MERELY FOLLOWING OTHERS' EXAMPLE.

' ■ » . London, September 23. Jh© Secretary to the Bulgarian Legation in London, interviewed, said:—Up till now wo have been only civilians in a n armed European camp. Rumania and trreeco liavo been mobilised for a considerable time; Switzerland, even, is under arms .J'hero is nothing astonishing in Bulgaria, following suit. "Why should mobilisation moan a change in national policy? 1 am not prepared to prophesy, as things "might s be changed by unexpected events. AVo must wait and see. TURKISH CAPITAL FROM WITHINCHRISTIANS COMPLETELY TERRORISED. Paris, September 23. A owiss who lias rofcumpcl from Constantinople declares that lifo there has becomo intolerable. ■ Christians, exccpfc Germans, have been disarmed aud completely terrorised. The necessaries of life are dear, there! is an entire absence of electricity, gas, .and candles. Crowds bofore bakeries fight for bread. The police openly sell to Turks Armenian orphans of both sexes as slaves. P" ces ranging from Cs. Bd. to 9s. Gd., well-conditioned girls rather dearer. The Turks detained four hundred French people of both sexes, and a large number of Russian and British in Damascus. REPORTED NEW TURKISH OFFENSIVE ON EGYPT • (Reo. September 24, 6.45 p.m.) Paris, September 23. According to the "Journal des Debats," two thousand German officers are in Syria, teaming an army which is armed, with new rifles, and is intended for a second expedition to Egypt in mid-November. The Turks have constructed a new railway to a starting point l at Beersheba, on the edge of tho desert. Guns and ammunition are steadily pouring in. Eight hundred cavalry are enI gaged as scouts. ' >