Turkey

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVII, Issue 64, 15 July 1915, Page 5

Turkey

COVERING KRITHIA.

ALLIES REPORT PROGRESS.

United Press Association. Athens, July 14. The Allies, after four attacks, occupied two hills covering Krithia.

CREEKS TO BE EXPELLED.

London, Julv 13.

Athens reports, that the Yo i i,>; Turks, acting under German supervision, have decided to expel all Greeks from Turkey, and liaVe ordered the authorities to enforce antiGreek measures.

TALK OF SEPARATE PEACE.

Sofia, July 13

Bucharest newspapers are giving prominence to the visit of the Turkish Minister of Justice to Switzerland to open negotiations with the Allies with a view to a separate peace. Enver Pasha's ordering of the recent offensive, resulting in defeat with heavy losses, has caused strained .relations between the Turks and Germans. ' The (latter,.(, were against the attack. aj |

MISCELLANEOUS; ITEMS.

London, July 14

The War Office announces that a statement in a Turkish communique that the Allies at the Dardanelles have used gas against the enemy is false. We have not resorted to this method df warfare.

The Italian consuls in Jerusalem, Aleppo, and Beirut,' who have arrived at Naples, declare that Turkey is exhausted. The Arabs lament it has completely separated its vanse. from that of the Ottomans. The Turkish resistance at the Dardanelles will continue, for that is where the last forces of the empire are being expended.

Tht Daily Chronicle's Turin correspondent states that the German military attaches have quitted Constantinople, and the archives of the embassy have also been removed.

II Seccolo states that an impression exists that the collapse of the TurkoGerman defence of the Dardanelles is not far off.

Mitvlene, July 14

The Germans are erecting and strengthening fortifications at Constantinople on a stupendous scale. On the seafront trenches are dug at half mile intervals from San Stefano to Silivria. with concealed batteries of guns of all sizes.