The Balkans

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 126, 21 October 1914, Page 5

The Balkans

TI'RCO-CERMAN INTRIGUE. ; CREWS FOR TURKISH FLEET. Bucharest, October 10. The Foreign Minister visited the Buxtons and expressed the Government's regret at the odious crime. London, October 10. Renter states that Turkey, replying to British representations, refused to discharge Germans on the Goebe» a/id Breslau. The Times' Athens correspondent states that Germany recently sent Turkey a million in gold and consignments of Jieavy guns. Eight hundred Austrian sailors and workmen have arrived in Constantinople for service in Turkish warships and portsi

AMMUNITION FOR TURKEY.

TBAINLOADS FROM GERMANY.

Rweivcd 21, 1*2.5 a.m. Rome, October '£t.

: A freight train of 150 trucks, loaded ■with artillery and ammunition and war 'material from Germany, travelling to- : wards Turkey, was seized at Singcvo. ; Similar trains freely traversed Rouniauia prior to King Charles' death. ' ________ '-■*> THE SULTAN'S SHREWD MOVE, 'i TO COUNTERACT GERMAN INFLU- } enck. ; Received 21,12.20 a.m. i Petrograd, October 20. > Tlie Bourse Gazette's Constantinople correspondent-says that as a result ef a family council, the Sultan, in order to combat Enver Bey's dictatorship and German influence, unexpectedly proclaimed the heir-presumptive Izzcdin as generalissimo of the army aTid navy. TIIE REPATRIATION OF GERMAN SAILORS. ; London, October 19. I Renter's correspondent at Constantinople says the 'Ports haß repeatedly assured Britain that she would repatriate the German sailors. It is now evident that she is unable to dispense with them, CTcn if she so desired.