THE TROUBLED TURKS

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 112, 14 January 1915, Page 5

THE TROUBLED TURKS

SHOW NO DESIRE TO ADVANCE. (Rec. 8.45 a.m.) * CONSTANTINOPLE, Jan. 13. It is denied that the Egyptian expedition is abandoned. Router's Cairo corespondent says that Turkish officers commanding in Southern Syria do not show any desire to advance southwards. They are demanding that Constantinople should eend more trained .soldiers. The news of the Turkish defeat in the Caucasus is disheartening recruits mustering at Hebron. German officers are chiefly the impelling factor. COAL FOR GERMANY. FROM BELGIAN COLLIERIES. (Rec. 8.45 a.m.) AMSTERDAM, Jan. 13. The Telegraaf states that the Germans are employing forty thousand miners in. the collieries at Mons, Liege and Charleroi, and are sending coal to Germany; they are also sending timber frcm Namur, Brabant, and Hain«.ult. A GERMAN COMMUNIQUE. SUCCESSFUL EVERYWHERE. §•■ (Rec. 8.45 a.m.) AMSTERDAM, aJn. 13. A German communique states that after a hea*r artillery battle we captured trenches at. Palingabrug. a suburb of Ni o jupr , rt : pnd finally repulsed aHack» on the canal at' La Bassee and j also at Labbiselle and Nouvron. Our c at Crauq completely d" foated til?- French, who evacv..\:.: %•> heights at North Orouq aiv 1 -' : "*h fcast of Ouffies, which Is north of Soißflons. We repulsed French e-*v p«rs' attack* -near St. Mihiel, am! aupied the heights north an, v • haaat of Nomeny. v ;