Against the Turks

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 143, 11 November 1914, Page 5

Against the Turks

AN EMPTY TREASURY. ECONOMIC CRISIS -THREATENED. GERMAN MONEY SPENT. TELEGRAPH STATIONS BOMBARDED FORTS DESTROYED. - Received 10, 9.-15 p.m. London, November 9. The Morning Post's Berne correspondent reports that Turkey's treasury is empty, that an economic crisis threatens the country; that the Government employees have not received their salaries foi several moiit.lAs, and that the German supply of money has already been exhausted.

Reuters Athens correspondent says that two British destroyers bombarded the telegraph stations at Sannoussot and lAsmayet. The Turks sank a Greek steamer flyin;.: the British flag at Aivili, in Asia Minor.

The Greek inhabitants of Smyrna are fleeing, panic-stricken. The forts of Seidebahr and Kumkulch have been completely destroyed. Turks, under the directions of Germans, are hastily fortifying Aivil. HOW THE WAR STARTED. AN OFFICIAL STATEMENT. RUSSIANS TAKEN UNAWARES. TURKISH VESSELS PURSUED. BUT SHELTER IN BOSPHORUS. ' Received 10, 11.10 p.m. Petrograd, November fl. The Admiralty has issued a statement regarding recent events in the Black Sea with the object of proving the falsity of the Turkish: assertion that Russia started the war. The document points out that on October 29th, the

the fleet received a message from Odessa that two Turkish torpedo boats bud entered the port flying the Russian flag. The Russian warship Kubanets fired, but received no reply to the signal. The other Russian warship, Doneta, was torpedoed, and before there was time to fire the Turks took to flight. The. Goeben approached Scbastopol and bombardc-d' the port. The Russian torpedo flotilla attacked, the Goeben, but without effect. On leaving Sebastopol the Goeben sighted the Russian transport Brut, and demanded her surrender, but the transport steered for the shore, her seacocks being opened with a view to sinking the vessel. Those aboard were saved after the ship had-, been blown up. The Russian Black Sea fleet pursued the Turks, who took refuge in the Bosphorus. NO ANXIETY IN EGYPT. BRITAIN PAYS FOR ANTI-TURKISH . CAMPAIGN. Londori, November 9. Egypt is quiet. Turkey's attitude is disapproved, and the blind devotion, which might have influenced Egyptians in the past, is non-existent to-day. There is absolute confidence in the capacity of the authorities to cope with any eventualities. The strong measures adopted have greatly conduced to neu. tralise the activties of agitators. The Princes Mohamed-Ali and Aziz-Hassan have been recommended, for health reasons, to spend the winter in Europe. Prince Hessein, who is actively supporting the. Allied cause,, will remain. According to the Paris Debats, Turkish Moslems are taught to shout "Long live Iladj Mohammed Wilhelm." Cairo, November 9. Britain has announced that she will bear the whole 'expense of the war with Turkev.