Turkey

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVII, Issue 91, 18 August 1915, Page 5

Turkey

STORY FROM CONSTANTINOPLE. I' ■j (| [jU 'iiTED Press Association:] ' Athefisl 1 AifguMJ 1 fc l -■ Field F.nver Pasha’s "■English-jockey; who hajs been detained at 1 tC(inista'nii 1 liojile‘since the- war, has' hei?n released, .fie s'aysdtliaf F.nverVs ‘power so great that’ eveif the Germans dare not thwart him. Whe’n F.nver went to the (Gallipoli front. General * von Sanders decided it dcfvisahic til teriMin in Constantinople. Turco-Gerraan relations are strained* and iim,nF ll’iirks ish rectuifs - are* greybeards, nneqn.ipped with rillcs and ammunition. Field adds that Constantinople is spy-rid-den. and the war is discussed only in whispers. The'Sultan attended the Selamlik on Friday for the first time for months’. 1 'Hie' is still in had health, 1 and does not attend to State business, but spends ibis days puffing at a hookah and slipping Mostic. The Old Turks have not lost their power,. , and if If though they are constantly .slfadpwed, they 'a rf secretly deli Iterating. The, few Englishmen remaining in Constantinople are not permitted putside the city, and ,a»res .spineti meal flagged 'for alleged offences.