Turkey

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 297, 14 December 1914, Page 5

Turkey

THE TERRIBLE TURK.

MARVELLOUS ENDURANCE.

Times and Sydney Sun Services. (Received 8 a.m.) London, December 13. Wounded Russians at Tiflis are astonished at the extraordinary physical endurance of the Turks. They march barefooted in the snow and shoot standing or kneeling, but rarely from trenches. Bayonet charges are thenonly dread. <

REVOLT AGAINST GERMAN TY-

RAN NY.

United Pbess Association,

London, December 12

A message received from Athens reports that the several weeks’ revolt of Turkish officers and men at Constantinople against German officers’ tyranny culminated in a serious riot in the barracks at Stamboul. Two German instructors at Stamboul were wounded.

THE KHEDIVE’S ATTITUDE.

Cairo, December 12

The Khedive is at Alexandretta, where 300 German, officers and 40,000 Turkish troops are gathered. The Berlin Yossische Zietung interviewed the Khedive at Constantinople. He said Turkey was going to strike Englnad at her most vulnerable point. The enterprise was most carefully prepared. When England’s political pressure .was removed, economic coercion would cease, and Germany would take her proper place in Egyptian ipflrkets. The Khedive added: “The Kaiser is our greatest living statesman. „T revere %im on account of his sympathy with Islam.”

. Abbas Hilmi, eldest son of the late Tewfik Pasha, succeeded his father as the seventh Viceroy and third Khedive of Egypt on January 7, 1892. He was born on July 14, 1874, and at the time of Bis father’s death waS studying at the Theresianum Academy at Vienna, where he had been for five years. He married Princess Ikbal Hanem, and has issue by her four daughters, a son and heir Prince Mohamed Abdul Mouneim, born February 20th, 1899, and another son, Prince Abdul Kader, born February 4th, 1902. His brother, Mohamed Ali, was born in 1875. The Khedive has an annual allowance of one hundred thousand pounds (Egyptian). y ON THE EAST COAST OF THE RED SEA. Rome', December 12. Turkish soldiers endeavoured to arrest the British Consul at Hodeida. The latter escaped to the Italian Consulate. The Turks forced an entrance and seized the British Consul. Italy has sent a strong protest to the Porte. Italian newspapers demand a complete explanation.

The warship Gniliana has arrived at Hodeida, which is a fortified town and seaport in Yemen, Arabia, on the east coast of the Red Sea. Population 10,000.

GENERAL VON DER GOLTZ.

Sofia, December 12

General Yon dor Goltz is staying a few days in Bulgaria. He says he Will occupy apartments at the Sultan’s Palace at Constantinople, and assume vice-regal functions.

MINE IN THE DARDANELLES.

Paris, December 12. A message from Constantinople states that a Turkish gunboat was sunk by a mine at the entrance to the Dardanelles. EXPORTATION FROM SMYRNA PROHIBITED. Athens, December 12. Turkey has forbidden the export of hgs and grapes from Smyrna.