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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 148, 17 November 1914, Page 4

Aii Auckland lady has received from her brother, who is an official ftt thetelephone company at Constantinople, a letter, dated September 1, which contains'interesting comment on the situation in the Turkish capital. Tlie correspondent (Mr 11. 11. Bell) writes:—"We arc practically cut off from tlie world hero, and get tons of false news. Thereis no money, and precious little food. We only received half pay last month, and doubt if we shall get that much this Of course, such a state of things is unprecedented in the world's history. Turkey has not yet declared war, but is acting as if she intendeds doing so, as the place (army particularly) is absolutely under the thumb of Germany. It would be an awful sin to throw this country into war, as the poor fellows are taken oft' the fields, and a rifle is put into their hands, and they are sent to be shot at. Moreover, they have to provide their own food; and I believe at the present moment that half the army, is in a state of starvation, and to see the way they are equipped is awful. Imagine a poor fellow with a big pack on his back, wearing a pair of heellcss slippers. The estimate is about the same as yours, and would be as mueli 'God's Own Country' as any place if any, decent nation had it. The soil is most prolific, but laziness rules here. You will have heard about the two German warships, the Goeben and Breslau, which escaped from the Mediterranean. Well, they dodged behind a French passenger boat so sis to avoid the British gun, and then slipped into the Dardanelles and escaped, and were immediately sold to Turkey. Another of Germany's fly moves, Tlie women here are feeling very nervous, as the Turks are overfond of a massacre: but there's no fear of that to-day, as they would have to deal with a people who hit back, and hit lmrd."

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