Turkey

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 49, 1 March 1915, Page 5

Turkey

PANIC IN CONSTANTINOPLE.

HEAVY CASUALTIES ADMITTED.

United Press Association. (Received 1.10 p.m. Paris, February 28.

Turkish torpedoers reconnoitered Nagara Pass, but precipatedly withdrew.

A panic prevails in Constantinople.

Heavy casualties are officially admitted.

THE SULTAN ALARMED.

TRAINS READY IN CASE OF

DANCER.

(Received 8.25 a.m.) Constantinople, February 28.

Three trains are in readiness to remove the Sultan and his entourage in case of danger.

SEAT OF GOVERNMENT TRANS-

FERRED TO BRUSA.

(Received 8.2 a.m.) Athens, February 28.

The Porte has issued a decree, transferring the seat of Government to Brusa, in Asia Minor. Many leading inhabitants are leaving Stamboul. (Brusa or Broussa, in Asia Minor, at the foot of Mt. Olympus, is 60 miles south off Constantinople. Was the capital of Bithynia prior to the Christian era, and later for a time of the Ottoman Empire. Has a population of 75,000 (mostly Moslems) in a district of 1,500,000).

ATTEMPTED ASSASSINATION OP TALA AT BEY.

(Received 8.25 a.m.) Sofia, February 28

It is reported that an attempt at assassination of Talaat Bey was made at Stamboul, The bullet missed.

IN THE DARDANELLES.

PARTICULARS OF THE BOMBARDMENT. United Press Association. London, February 27. Reuter’s Athens correspondent cables a report that the Allied fleet entered the Straits and bombarded the inner forts, notably Dardanos, The Turkish reply was feeble. The Germans are strongly fortifying the Prince’s Islands, and placing batteries at Stamboul.

(Prince’s Islands, a group of islets at the eastern end of the Sea of Marmora, about ten miles south-east of Constantinople). The Allied fleet advanced in the Daidanelles as far as Sortari, within reach of Fort Interpe, which was destroyed. They also "bombarded Turkish en campments. Six hundred , Turkish wounded were taken to Constantinople. The French battleships Suffren, Gaulois, and Charlemagne played an ac-

tive part in Thursday’s destruction of the Dardanelles forts. While three British battleships opened a slow, methodical fire on the forts at CapeHelles, Sedil Bahr, am- Orhanieh, the Gaulois engaged the large fort at Kura Kalesi, on the Asiatic side. The ships’ fire was remarkably accurate. The Suffren and Charlemagne fired at short range, and completed the destruction of the enemy’s batteries, which only fired a few shots before being silenced. The French ships were undamaged. The enemy, being shelled from inside the straits, abandoned the forts at the entrance, and the Vengeance and Irresistible landed who demolished the three first forts completely, and Kum Kaliesi partially. Two new four-inch guns concealed at Tombochilles, and -four Nordeufolts covering the entrance were destroyed. ■ Three hydroplanes dropped many bombs on the forts of the Dardanelles.

Chicago reports are to be effect that there is an approach to a panic in the wheat pit, in consequence of the Dardanelles reports. Times and Sydney Sun Service. London, February 26.

Constantinople telegrams report that the Turks are down-hearted, and expect the Allies to take the metropolis sooner or later.

SCHEMER PUT TO DEATH.

Copenhagen, February 26

It is reported in Berlin that a Turkish General was murdered at Constantinople at the instance of the Government. He was suspected of scheming to proclaim himself Sultan and negotiate for peace.