Turkey

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 76, 1 April 1915, Page 5

Turkey

STAMBOUL STUNNED.

GOVERNMENT’S PREPARATIONS FOR ARRIVAL OF ALLIED FORCES,

United Pkess Association. Loudon, March 31.

A courier from Constantinople reports that the city is resigned to the inevitable.

The Government is preparing the inhabitants for the arrival of the Allies. Proclamations posted at the mosques say it is simply a question of opening a free passage through the Dardanelles for foreign warships, a privilege which the Sultan has hitherto refused, but which has now become of national political significance. The population is urged not to resort to violence. After a few weeks the fleets will sail away content to have made a simple demonstration. The phrasing of the proclamation seeks to show that the forthcoming visit is more in the i ature of a friendly call which the Turkish Government is looking forward to with the keenest delight.

The large Greek population in the Phanar district has become terrorised, and the people are prisoners in their own houses. .

THE OPTIMISM OF VON DER COLTZ, Times and Sydney Sun Sehvice. London, March 31.' Von dor Golfcz, interviewed at Buoharest on route to Berlin, announced that ho was shortly returning to Constantinople, The Turks, he said, were in excellent spirit, and possessed plenty of munitions. They are eager to meet the Allies in land fights and are confident of success.

RUSSIANS DRIVE TURKS SOUTHWARDS.

(Received 8.50 a.m.) Petrograd, March 31

A communique states: AVe occupied Artvin, driving the Turks southwards.