Egypt

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 43, 22 February 1915, Page 5

Egypt

NEWS FROM SYRIA.

ALLEGED VICTORY AT ISMAILIA CAUSES JUBILIATION. United Press Association. (Received 9.20 a.m.) Alexandria, February 20. The American cruiser Tennessee has arrived with 660 refugees. The members of the crew state there is a serious situation in Syria, and that excesses are feared when the Turks return from Sinai. The Commandant at Jaffa said that the announcement of the victory at Isrnailia and that the Turks had captured Suez and were marching on Cairo had caused jubiliation among the fanatical Syrians. The crew add that there is much dissatisfaction at the Bedouin levies, and several were shot for refusing to fight under the Germans.

“CONQUEST IS EASY.”

CAIRO CORRESPONDENT’S

OPINION.

(Received 9.20 a.m.) Berlin, February 21

The Cairo correspondent of the Taglische Undschau suggests that conquest is easy, as there are only 70,000 British in Egypt. The Australians and New Zealanders, he says, are fine big men and receive six shillings per day, though many have private means. But they are not volunteers, because Australians who do not enlist are deprived of portion of their property. FEARS FOR RISING OF MOSLEMS United Press Association, Cairo, February 21. Certain Turkish authorities in Pales, tine have published pamphlets, urging the Moslems to stone non-Mos-lems to death. The German Ambas sador at Washington has been informed of the danger, and has telegraphed to his colleague at Constantinople. ' Thanks to the American Ambassador’s intervention, the Porte has instructed the Jerusalem authorities to protect non-Moslems. Moreover, the disastrous defeat of the Turks at the Suez Canal has salutarily impressed the pamphleteers, who have relinquished the idea of a massacre.