Turkey
NO TURKISH FORCES IN RUSSIAN TERRITORY. “THERE IS NO TRUE TURKEY NOW.” 13'/ Etirraic Tsmobaph— Ooptbight £Uwtt»d Pb**« Amociation.] (Received 9.0 a.m.) London, January 8. Petrograd advises that excepting for scattered bands of fugitives thei'e are no longer any Turkish troops in Russian territory. A Turkish' colonel told the Bourse Gazette correspondent that Exxver Pasha had been Turkey’s ruin, and he added: “This wretched brainless puppet of the Kaiser had brought Turkey into a position imperilling the Ottoman Empire. There is no true Turkey now. It is only a German pi'ovince, which the Germans will carry down in their own rain.”.
ON THE EUPHRATES. LOYALTY AND DEVOTION TO BRITISH CAUSE. United Press Association. (Received 9.0 a.m.b Delhi, January 8. In reply to letters announcing the outbreak of war with Turkey and the British occupation of Basra (province on the Euphrates in Asiatic Turkey), the political agent in the Persian Gulf has received most cordial expressions of loyalty and devotion to the British cause from the Sheiks of Bahama, the Sheiks of Kuwait, the Suluan of Maskat, the Chief Kolir, and other chiefs. The new British success in Basra caused unqualified joy among the Gulf Arabs generally. TURKS IN THE CAUCASUS. Time* and Sydney Sun Sheviom. (Received 8.0 a.m.) London, January 8. Military circles in Berlin, consider the situation of the Turks in the Caucasus as favourable. Increasing numbers of Mohammedans are enlisting.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 7, 9 January 1915, Page 5
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233Turkey Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 7, 9 January 1915, Page 5
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