ENEMY HAS LEFT NO STONE UNTURNED.
tL um' I, t. • , . London, December 7. 100 limes Persian correspondent writes' Germany paved her way to iersiai by installing commercial agents at the ports and Consuls throughout tile country. German agents ivho professed to be scientific travelling enthusiasts enjoyed hospitality at the British Consulates, while they were really paid agents aiming at the destruction of British influence. ' Shortly before the war tun 3" Consulates opened out with many wellarmed retainers, impress" nig the Orientals. Daredevils were brought out irom the villages and armed ?, the war broke out, and many German and Austrian officers collected at the Consulate at Ispahan. They brought gold, ammunition, and machineg s, and tried with varying fortune to get in caravans with gold and arms. Wireless apparatus was installed, and Gorman war / bulletins issued everyVIZ°- f « Persians wore impressed by the lavish outlay of money and the dispiay of German arms. lhe Persian authorities at Teheran demanded the destruction °f Wie w'rekss and the disarming of the retainers, but the Germans temporised In September the was shot, but the gendarmerie did not act.. Warnings were given that no British life was safe, and the whole British colony .including the occupants of schools, hospitals, and banks, travelby caravan for nineteen days, in terrible heat, 1:0 the Persian Gulf, the Gornians being left supreme The British Consul colled on a friendly chieftain, and was astonished to find the Ispahan representative of the German Emperor there, smoking the chieftain's tobacco. There could have boen no better illusends' of G6n Han policy— 110 stone was left unturned to gain Germany's REPORTED NEW OFFENSIVE AT GALLIPOLI (Rec. December 8, 8.5 p.m.) . , , , London, December 7A wireless message from Amsterdam states: "The 'Cologne Gazette' learns that the Allies have commenced a new offensive in .the Dardanelles, but fiat the Turks regard it as merely, a bluff." /
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Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2639, 9 December 1915, Page 5
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310ENEMY HAS LEFT NO STONE UNTURNED. Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2639, 9 December 1915, Page 5
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