Turkey

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 12, 15 January 1915, Page 5

Turkey

FIGHTING IN PERSIA. TEN HOURS’ DEFENCE OF BRIDGE COSSACKS’ SUCCESS ON THE CAUSASUS FRONTIER. United Press Association. (Received 8.50 a. 111.) Petrograd, January 14. Soudja Ed Denies, formerly Governor if Azerbaijan, has arrived at Tiflis. Hbi with if our hundred fought tlie Turks for ten hours, and defended a bridge to enable the refugees to escape. All but four of his followers were annihilated. The- staffs of the Consulates and Banks at Tabriz escaped. The Turks and Kurds massacred the Christians and refugees at Maindoaf. The Cossacks ambushed two companies if Turks and 120 gunners on the Caucasus frontier, and killed or took all if them prisoners, and captured nine field guns. > THE EGYPTIAN POSITION. Cairo, January 15. Advices from Darfur show that Geriian agents are intriguing with the mtives to light against England, the igents using Slatin Pasha’s departure i'om Egypt as an argument in favor if the natives siding with Germany.

(Baron Rudolf Carl Slatin Pasha was rented a Baron of the Austrian Em>ire in 1906. His English decoraions include G.C.V.0., K.C.M.G., (V.C.V.0., C. 8., C.Y.D., and M.V.O. Ie has been British Inspector-General »f the Soudan since 1900; was an Ton. Major-General in the British Vrmy, and Lieutenant-General in the British Army. He left Vienna for he Soudan in 1878, and was appoint'd by General Gordon Governor of )arfur. He was captured by the Mahdists in 1884.) THE TURKS IN PERSIA. London, January 14. Reuter’s Petrograd correspondent latos that it is believed the Turks’ jbject in invading neutral territory in Persia is to get to the vulnerable Rusian frontier, using Tabriz as a base, ’’he Persians hope for Anglo-Russian lid. SYRIA’S INDEPENDENCE. Rome, January 14. The Giornale I‘ltalia says that Bri:ain in planning to transform Syria nto an independent kingdom, with °rince Mahomet Daudas as Sovereign, under British protection. This will bring a realisation of Britain’s hope or a railway t from the Syrian coast to Calcutta. ARMENIAN ATROCITIES. . Timm and Sydney Sun Bebvicm. London, January 14. There is terrible desolation in Arnenia, and the wholesale slaughter jontinues. Fifty thousand homeless ire streaming through the valleys of he Caucasus. The horrors of the inarch are indescribable. Many chilIren have been abandoned on the roads, and adults are dying of cold and hunger. ENORMOUS) TURKISH LOSSES. Petrograd, January 14. Official: Reports have been received if the rout of the Turkish rearguard it Olty, with enormous Turkish losses. Karaurgan has been captured, with con’voys of stores, and a field hospital with ,600 wounded Turks.