Second Edition. Turkey

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVII, Issue 89, 16 August 1915, Page 6

Second Edition. Turkey

‘ ' A REICrt OF TERROR. United Press Association. London, .August 14. Germany’s successes at Warsaw are exploited to the fullest extent in the Turkish press and have momentarily repopularised the Young Turks’ Government. It has been publicly announced from the mosques that Germany is preparing to send an army to fight with the Turks. The Sublime Porte has assumed an intransigent attitude toward Bulgaria, whom it previously sought to placate. Active steps are being taken to ieWcitate a Holy War. Messengers have been despatched to Islamic coun- - tries, especially Egypt, Abyssinia, Tripoli and Tunis, announcing German successes everywhere, and stating that Turkey will shortly resume the campaign against Egypt. The Sultan, in a special irade, has guide public drunkenness, a subject calling for the severest court-martial penalty, averring that the existence of' the Ottoman. Empire is threatened. All foreigners in Turkey are ordered to wear the. fez, the ostensible reason being to preserve them from ill-treat- • ment and insult by the natives Dschavid Bey. a former Turkish Fin. ance Minister, is visiting Vienna and Berlin. It is believed that.lns object is to explain the precarionsness of the ' Turkish financial situation, and to demand immediate advances. Mr Henry Wood, the American United Press correspondent in Turkey, states that a-veritable reigh of terror has been created in the simple minds of the Tiirkish peasants in the villages , on the coasts of the Sea of Marmoia ' )j v the British submarines’ activity. A steamer in which Wood travelled had its lifeboats out and hundreds of life preservers ready. They crept along the Marmora coast the whole way, hilt on a second occasion the captain took courage and headed directly, for Constantinople. The boat crowded with 1 peasants and provynpial government officers, all tremh-i ling with fear. When half-way to Constantinople there was a loud shout from the bridge, the captain bellowed orders, the boat turned tail and headed for the shore and there was a wild scurry for the lifdainty It was then discovered that the supposed Kiihmai]ine was only a porpoise. ! ■■; ■ Turkish transports' are carrying wounded men more confidently undei the Red Cross flag than under the Crescent. They frequently fly the Bed Cross until they reach th Bosphorus, when the Crescent is substituted, because it isYinseeiuly to allow the population to think that the wounded soldiers owe their salvation to the hapd of ’the Cross rather than the Cr.es■"b ■.'■‘mi i j Vent... ... ‘ Athens, August 14. \ ; ,Prince Bfejlierilohe, on ' arriving at .Cqustantineple, expressed . dissatisfacj ,tion at the disorders in the pf Turkey, and announced his inten- » , ,tion ,toi ask Berlin to send German ( Officials to fake over -the administration. , His proposal excites great uneasiness, and the idea separate peace gains ground. !, , , v There are now 120,000 Turkish soldiers who haife been 1 wounded in the Dardanelles fighting, at Constantinople.