The Dardanelles.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIII, Issue 29, 2 October 1915, Page 5

The Dardanelles.

MUTINY IN TURKISH ARMY. United Press Association. Londou, October I. The Times’ Salonika correspondent lias received a report from Mityleue that the seventh regiment of the twentieth’ division of the Turkish •army corps stationed at Karaburnu mutinied and fled to the mountains. The division was j ordered elsewhere and its commander dismissed. There is undoubted despondency and demoralisation in the Turkish army. London. September .‘IU. In the House of Commons, Mr R. H. Outhwaitc asked whether Sir G. W. Buchanan’s statement at Retrograd was true, that the attack on the Dardanelles was partly due to a Russian request to divert the Turks from the Caucasus. Lord Robert Cecil replied that the operation doubtless drew the Turks from the Russian and Hgyptiun fronts, but a fuller statement was at present inexpedient. ARMENIAN MURDERS. London, September 30. The Times’ correspondent at Cairo says that some of the German Consuls encouraged the Armenian atrocities. Herr Rossler, the Consul at Aleppo, went to Aikab and superintended them in person, and the notorious Baron Openheim suggested the removal of the women and children of the Allies to an area where they could not fail to witness the barbarities committed by the troops in the .streets, which literally ran with blood. There was incontestable proof that Talgat Bey was the instigator. NEW ZEALAND ENGINEERS. London, September 30. An Australian officer, in a letter, warmly praises the splendid work of the New Zealand Engineers, and says that it was greatly owing to their never-failing energy that we were able to bold many dangerous positions. A young Now Zealand officer within eight days counter-mined and blew up five Turkish positions. BOMBARDMENT IN THE STRAITS. Amsterdam, October 1. A Turkish communique says We silenced, on Tuesday, the batteries bombarding our positions near Seddnl Babr. Athens, October 1. Mityleue reports a fierce, day-long naval bombardment in the straits on Tuesday. Salonika. October I. The Germans are employing thirty thousand men to strengthen the Cbatafdja forts. Four parallel lines o) railway connecting the forts have been constructed. also ditches and canals jo enable them to Hood the plains outside, if necessary.