IF WAR COMES.
FORCES AT HAND. THE PROSPECTS. TOUTED SERVICE TELEGRAMS. (Received this dav at 10.30 a.m.) LONDON. Jan 30. The “Daily Mail’s” Lausanne correspondent says should the Turks try to regain Mosul, an offensive could not start for several weeks, as the mountain passes are blocked by snow. '! hey have about thirteen thousand rifles, and seven thousand axuiliaries comentarted in Dinrbeliir areas but no aircraft capable of combatting ours. If war comes curly, an attempt will probably be made to drive out the Alins from Constantinople. The Turks have about fifty thousand men in the area around Ismid and Broussa- and there is only on<i road available to tiling them to the Bosphorous. where almost the whole Atlantic anti Mediterranean fleets are concentrated, making it extremely difficult to cross. The Turks have illegally formed an army of thirty thousand in Eastern Thrace. threatening Ccnstantinople from the rear. Greeks have about sixty thousand on the Mari tv. a line.
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Hokitika Guardian, 31 January 1923, Page 3
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159IF WAR COMES. Hokitika Guardian, 31 January 1923, Page 3
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