IN CONSTANTINOPLE
HARSH CONDITIONS OF THE PEOPLE
Berne, January 5. A neutral who has lived for several years• in. Constantinople details, the conditions of the people there. Hβ says they are eating bread smelling of petroleum. It is made of wheat which was abandoned by the troops at Gallipoli and which was drenched with petroleum in the hope that it would be rendered useless. Sugar costs 13s. per kilogramme (about 6's. per lb.), coffee 145., petroleum 80s. for 2J gallons. The Bosphorus fisheries have been abandoned owing to mines. The Russian fleet periodically bombards the coaling station, and has practically blockaded the Bosphorus since the capture of Trebizond. Of 250 merchant vessels at ihe Golden Horn at the beginning of the war, all except, sis have been sunk by the Russians in the Black Sea_ or by British and French submarines in the Sea. of Marmora..—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.
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Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2971, 8 January 1917, Page 7
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148IN CONSTANTINOPLE Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2971, 8 January 1917, Page 7
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