Against the Turks.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 151, 2 December 1914, Page 5

Against the Turks.

ABYSSINIA REMAINS LOYAL. ITALIANS LEAVING TURKEY IN ASIA. HOLY WAR FALLS FLAT. TURKS FROZEN IN THE TRENCHES. Paris, November 30. A message from Cairo states that the Negus of Abyssinia rejected German intrigues for an attack on the Soudan and offered a contingent to Britain, Rome, November 30.

Owing to the threatening situation in Asia Minor and Palestine, following the declaration of a holy war, the Italian Government has dispatched four steamers to embark Italians. The cruiser Calabria has been ordered to Syria to protect Italians. Athens, November 30.

Hadjis (holy men) from the minarets at Beirut exhorted the populace to massacre Christians and Europeans whenever the warships of the Allies appear. . London, November 30.

News from Teheran shows that the Festival of Moliarram passed without the slightest hostility towards the Russians. The proclamation in Constantinople of a holy war is ignored. The festival was also tranquil in India. Paris, November 30.

The Paris edition of the New York Herald states that the Turks have seized the Allies' banks and otheT establishments in Palestine.

Times and Sydney Sun Services, London, November 30. Russians, who captured the Turkish trenches at Erzeroum, found many Turks, lying together for warmth, frozen. ROUT OF TURKISH FORCES. DERVISHES DEFEATED IN SOMALILAND. Paris, November 30. The Matin's Petrograd correspondent says that the Turks have abandoned th? positions at Kuneprimou and are flying in disorder towards Erzeroum, with the Russians pursuing, London, November 30.

The Press Bureau states that Colonel Cubett, commanding the reinforced camel constabulary in Somaliland, attacked the dervishes on November 23 in a strong position at Shimbcrris and captured the forts, which lie demolished. The dervishes were overcome by the moral effect of shell Are and lied.

THE GOEBEN LAID UP. UNDERGOING REPAIRS TO ENGINES. Times and Sydney Sun Services. Received 1, 5.50 p.m. London, November .10. The New York Herald learns thai '.he Gocben is lying opposite Sherapia, in the Bosphorus. Russian'shells seriously damaged her engines, and hundreds of workmen are effecting repairs.

FIRE ON GERMAN STEAMER, Kecciwl 2, 12.3 n.ii!. Syracuse, Dwrmhcr 1. A fin', involving nil tlio vargo, lia? L'l'okcn out on the German steamer Alba ::i:i, bouri;! I'rom Australia to AinsU'rdam.