Against the Turks

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 144, 12 November 1914, Page 5

Against the Turks

CAPTURE OF CONSTANTINOPLE. THE OBJECTIVE OF RUSSIAN OPERATIONS. Received 12, 1.30 a.m. Petrograd, November 10. The Czar lias instituted operations for the capture of Constantinople at the earliest date. REMARKABLE RUSSIAN MARCH. •ARMENIAN MARAUDING BANDS. TURKS CROSS EGYPTIAN FRONTIER.

Received 11, C p.m. London, November 10. The Press, reviewing-the anti-Turkish operations dwells on the wonderlul forced marc 1 !, averaging sixty-four versts (about -12 1 /-. miles) daily over snow-covered mountain roads. The town of Van is besieged by Armenian bands. Another band penetrated . the rear of the Turkish army. Constantinople ivwrts that the Turks crossed the Egyptian frontier on Sunday.

' FORCIXfJ ITALY'S HAXLS. a cuius imuixext. Received 12, I.SO a.m. Koine, November 10. Italy has demanded that Germany and Turkey shall stop operations against Italians in Tripoli. It is believed that Turkey will force a crisis with Italy hy acts of aggression in the latters' new colony. , THE KAISER FORESTALLED. ANTI-CHRISTIAN AGITATION FAILS. Received 11, 6 p.m. Times and Sydney Sun Services. London, November 10. The Novoo Vremya, dealing with the Kaiser's cll'orts to instigate a jehad against Christendom, nnyss: "The Mussulmans have forestalled Kaiser Wilhckn's criminal designs and are flocking to the standard of the Allies." THREATENED ATTACK ON EGYPT.

BALKAN OUTBURST NOT LUPOSSSIBLE. DISTURBING SIGNS AMONG THE NATIONS. London, November 10. A White Paper concerning the rupture with Turkey stales that Mr Milne Cheetham, Charge d'Afi'aires in Cairo, wrote to Sir E. Grey that there was evidence before the end of August that Turkey contemplated an attack on Egypt. Times and Sydney Sun Services. London, November 10. Sofia states that Roumania, Bulgaria, and Greece still declare that they are resolved to maintain, neutrality, but complications are possible at any.moment. The Roumanian army of 400,000 men on Hungarian territory would probably decide the issue of the campaign in Galicia and Poland. The agitation in Bucharest for the immediate invasion of Transylvania is rapidly reviving. Germany is diing her utmost to revive discord between Roumania and Bulgaria. By mobilising, Bulgaria could compel Turkey to maintain 300,000 men in Europe, and thus paralyse her military activity* in Asia Minor.

RUSSO-TURKISH LAND FIGHTING.. GERMANS COMMAND THE OTTOMAN ARMIES. Pctrograd, November 10. There was tenacious fighting at Koprikdi. The Turkish flanking movement was defeated.. There were evidences that Germans commanded the Turks.

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