Turkey

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 301, 18 December 1914, Page 5

Turkey

THE SULTAN AND HIS REASON FOR A HOLY WAR.

United Press Association. (Received 8.25 a.m.) Amsterdam, December 17. A despatch from Constantinople says the Sultan has declared that the actions of the Allies compelled him to proclaim a Holy War against the Christian world, in defence of a concerted policy which threatened the destruction of Mohammedanism.

BRITISH BOMBARD TURKISH COAST. (Received 8.50 a.m.) ' ■ Athens, December 17. A British squadron bombarded Turkish troops in the Gulf of Saros on Sunday. GERMANS EMBRACE ISLAM. ATTEMPTS TO CURRY MUSSULMAN FAVOR. (Received 8.50 a.m.) London, December 17. In order to gain Mussulman favor, the Germans in Turkey pretend to have embraced Islam, and now pray in the mosques. Sentinels are posted at the outside and some wear armlets bearing in Turkish: “There is but one God, and Allah is his Prophet.”

GENERAL.

London, December 16. Preparations are .being made on Mount Carmel to mount German guns. Mount Carmel, a long hill, 1700 feet high, terminating in a hold headland, on the Mediterranean, immemorially famous as a place of great sacred ness. Here Elijah triumphed over the priests of Baal. At its foot is the prosperous Gorman Templar colony of Hafia.) Rome, December 17. Signor Sonnino, in the Senate, announced that Turkey had consented to release the British Consul at Hodeida, whose removal to Vali was responsible for the outrage on the Italian Consulate. London, December 13. General Von der Goltz has been recalled. He re-appointed a number of cashiered Arab officers, and appointed Sekki Pasha commander in Syria. Ex-Queen Alexandra, with Princess Victoria, visited the Reigate Hospital. Queen Alexandra presented every wounded soldier with a £1 note and autograph photograph of herself.