Turkey

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 34, 7 September 1916, Page 5

Turkey

CONSTANTS NOPLE, CITY PRESENTS FOREIGN ASPECT. DISAPPOINTED TURKISH PEOPLE. Press Association—Copyright, Australian and N.Z. Cable Association, (Received 10.50 a.m.) Athens, September 7. A correspondent writing from Coustan/.a (Roumanian port on the Black Sea) reports that Constantinople presents the aspect of a city in the occupation of foreign Power. Austrian soldiers are everywhere, tho Germans being less numerous. The Turkish people are most disappointed at Germany’s promised 120,000 reinforcements against the Russians not having arrived. A considerable number of Germans who were hitherto hi Constantinople have gone to Asia Minor, They mistrusted the Christian troops and kept them busy strengthening the fortifications on the European side of the Bosphorus. All males from seventeen to sixty years of age have been embodied in the army and tho boys will be called up for training. Espionage has increased, but a revolution is not anticipated as tho Young Turks are the absolute masters.