Turkey

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 73, 27 March 1915, Page 5

Turkey

TURKJSI-I SEIZURE OF BARLEY UNDER PROTEST. United -Pbebs Association.

(Received 9.5 a.m.) Delhi, March 26

Despite a protest from the Italian Consul at .ledda, the Turkish authorities seized a cargo of barley which was intended for pilgrims.

ADVANCE OF THE BULGARIANS ANTICIPATED. (Received 9.25 a.m.) Athens, March 26. The Turks, fearing a Bulgarian onslaught, are hastily fortifying the Mari Keni-Luleburgas line.

STORMY TIMES IN CONSTANTI-

NOPLE.

London, March 25.

Mr Donohoe, war correspondent, cables from Constanza that there is a bitter struggle at Constantinople between the war and peace parties. The latter demand capitulation. The feud may culminate in a revolution, the Military League being considered as sworn foes. The committee of Union and Progress has been resuscitated. It aims to destroy the German-Young Turks incubus. Already the army is divided. Fear of a coup d'etat led the Government to contemplate a separate peace, and a stormy Cabinet meeting was held. The majority decided to negotiate with the Allied commander-in-Chief, and asked the American Ambassador to ascertain the conditions for surrender of the Dardanelles and Constantinople. At the last moment von Sanders, the-German Government representative, broke into the Cabinet, furiously expostulated, threatened the instant arrest of the peace majority, and vowed that he would shoot any member communicating with the Allies*. ,He eventually bludgeoned tjhe Government into submission.