TURKEY IS STARVING

Taihape Daily Times, Issue 160, 27 July 1916, Page 5

TURKEY IS STARVING

WORST FAMINE IN WORLD’S HISTORY. (Received 7.30 p.m.) WASHINGTON, July 26. The State Department has official information that the famine in Turkey is the worst in the history of the world. Only fifteen per cent of the normal grain crop has been planted. When the railway was opened to Berlin, Turkish leaders confiscated enormous quantities of foodstuffs, and sold them to the Germans at exorbitant price®. HEAVY ORDNANCE MOBILITY.

PROBLEM COMPLETELY SOLVED. LONDON, July 26. Marcel Hutin in the “Echo de Paris” states the problem, of mobile heavy artillery has been completely solved. He saw engineers lay, take up, move, and relay railway lines in a few hours which were sufficient to move fifteen inch howitzers firing a seven hundred pound shell every minute, and quickfiring howitzers firing two or three

• shells a minute, each of 110 pounds, whereof twenty pounds are explosives.. General Verraux, in paying a tribute to the BVitish says:-—“To the tenacity and method of our Allies and their remarkable gift of observation , they quickly recognised the causes of tho!r first checks, which were insufficient artillery preparation and rash attacks due to unreflecting bravery and a misconception of their adversary’s resources as routine does not oppress them, the British do not hesitate to scrap old methods. A RUSSIAN COMMUNIQUE. (Received 9.25 p.m.) PETROGRAD, July 25. A communique says: The Russians’ crossing of the River Sloniovka, a branch of the Styr, continues without interruption, under enemy fire. During to-day’s advance we prisonered a thousand and captured nine guns, which we can use against the enemy. Our advance at Erzinvan continues, the ' Turks retreating hurriedly and desert- } ing guns, rifles,, and all sorts of . material. 3 .... ‘ - - '