Against the Turks

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 155, 7 December 1914, Page 5

Against the Turks

: A RUSSIAN VICTORY. TITRKS SUSTAIN BIG LOSSES. Received 7, 1.25 p.m. ■ Pctrograd, December 6. Official: The Russians captured Sarsii Kashka,!, after desperate resistance. The Turks fled towards Van, leaving many prisoners and their wounded. LOYALTY IN EGYPT. Times and Sydney Sun Services. London, December 4. Egyptian reports state that the Arabs , are deeply impressed by the magnitude; ■ of the preparations to repel the Turkish invasion. Egyptian officials have behaved excellently and prevent Turkish agents obtaining a foothold among the Arabs. Certain Bedouins who displayed a tendency to talk sedition were gently, but firmly encouraged to betake themselves elsewhere. | THE ADVANCE ON EGYPT. I NO PROGRESS MADE YET. 1 BEDOUINS' A LESSON. I Copenhagen, December 4. J A message from Berlin says that the Turks, under German direction, are constructing a military railroad from Maun to the Suez Canal. Cairo, December 4. British aeroplanes are constantly patrolling the Sinai Peninsula, and have found no sign of tlie enemy. The hostile camps at Gatia Birelnuss have been broken up, and the enemy has retreated to the east. Probably the Bedouins who attacked the Camelry patrol received a lesson they will never forget The desert has been inundatd for many square miles east of Port Said, which rendered it immune. Twenty of the Camelry coastguard patrol are missing since the engagements cabled on November 24. They were compelled to surrender, and are now imprisoned near Jaffa. London, December 4. The Daily Chronicle's Cairo correspondent says that an Englishman who escaped from Constantinople states that the war news published there asserts that the English and Allies are thoroughly beaten on land and sea, but he adds, there is a strong anti-German party and there will be a great revulsion when the impudent make-belief is discovered. There is bound to be bloodshed. The Germans have made enormous requisitions for the army f particularly in 1 Thrace, where the inhabitants arc starving. The stores of coal are already re- . dueed to 10,000 tons. The quality of the | coal greatly reduced the Goeben's speed. ' Everything is quiet and orderly in • Egypt, but reports continue to come of Turks massing in Syria.