”TURKEY IS EXHAUSTED.”

Gisborne Times, Volume XLV, Issue 3982, 15 July 1915, Page 5

”TURKEY IS EXHAUSTED.”

STATEMENT BY ITALIAN CON. 6TJIS. DARDANELLES TO BE THE LAST DITCH. -■ , AjuABS SEPARATING' FROM TEE OTTOMANS. (Times and Sydney Sun Services.) LONDON, July 13. Italian Consuls at Jerusalem, Aleppo and Beirut who have arrived at Naples declare that Turkey is exhausted. The Arab element has completely separated its cause from that of the Ottomans. Turkish resistance at the Dardanelles will 'continue, for that is where the last forces of the Empire are being expended. The War Office announces that the statement in a Turkish communique that the Allies at the Dardanelles iised gas against the onomy is false. They have not resorted to this method of warfare. STRAINED RELATIONS BETWEEN TURKS AND GERMANS. EFFORT BY TURKS TO SECURE A SEPARATE PEACE. ROUMANIA WISE TO GERMAN TRICKERY. SOFIA, July 13. Bucharest newspapers are giving prominence to the visit of the Turkish Minister of Justice to Switzerland to open negotiations with the Allies with a view to a separate peace. Enver Pasha’s ordering the recent offensive resulting in defeat with heavy losses has caused strained relations between the Turks and the Germans. The latter are being strongly attacked. LONDON, July 13. Roumanian authorities state that they recently confiscated trains laden wit'll barrels of Munich beer, regarding which the German authorities telegraphed asking that they should be liberally supplied with ice .blocks. Suspicions were aroused. The barrels were found to contain ammunition. Enormous cement blocks consigned to Constantinople for building purposes were found to be hollow and filled with shell cases for large German howitzers. ANTAGONISM TOWARDS THE GREEKS.

(Times and Sydney Sun Services.’ (Received July 14. 9 p.m.) LONDON, July 14. Athens reports that the Young Turks, acting under German supervision, liave decided to expel all Greeks from Turkey, and ordered the authorities to enforce anti-Greek measures.

COMING EVENTS CAST THEIR SHADOWS.

GERMANS READY TO QUIT CONSTANTINOPLE.

DEFENCE OF DARDANELLES ABOUT TO COLLAPSE.

(Received July 15, 1.20 a.m.) LONDON, July 14. The “Daily Chronicle's” Turin correspondent says the German military attache has quitted Constantinople, and the archieves of the Embassy have also been removed. The “Seccolo” states that the impression exists that the collapse of the Turko-German defence of the Dardanelles is not far off. QUITE A DIFFERENT STORY. SUBLIME PORTE TO BE DEFENDED. (Received July 15. 1.20 a.m.) MITYLENE, July 14. The Germans are erecting and strengthening the 'ortifications of Constantinople on a stupendous scale on the sea front. Trenches are being dug at half-mile intervals from San Stefano to Silivria, with concealed batteries of guns of all sizes.