Turkey

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 88, 16 April 1915, Page 6

Turkey

advice from von der. coltz. United Press Association.. Paris, April 15. Le Temps publishes a telegram from Constantinople that at a meeting of the Great Consul of War General von der Goltz reported the results of his visit to' Berlin. He promised Turkey a big advance from the German war loan of 360 millions, but regretted that he had ■ been unable to persuade the German Government to send an Austro-German army to invade Servia and create a diversion from the Dardanelles. Germany and Austria were in such a position that it : was absolutely impossible to divert a single battalion. A violent discussion followed. Enver Bey bitterly reproached Germany with leaving Turkey to fight the Allies alone when her * capital, was menaced. Talaat Bey said that only selfishness prevented Germany from sending troops. Addressing Generals von der Goltz and von Sanders, he added: “If Germany is in such a state, it is high time that Turkey concluded a separate peace.*' IN ASIATIC TURKEY. ' •- SHARP STRUGGLE WITH THE KURDS AND ARABS. (Received 9.0 a.m.) London, April 15. The Press Bureau reports that 10,000 regulars and 12,000 Kurds and Arabs concentrated at Makhahdah under Suleyman Nescri Ali Bey and resumed the offensive in Mesopotamia. They shelled Kurnhwatd, and made a sharp attack on Shaida, forcing the British offensive in which eighteen officers and three hundred Turks were made prisoners, and ninety-two Brit- . ish and Indians were wounded.