Against the Turks

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 163, 16 December 1914, Page 5

Against the Turks

DESIGNS ON SUEZ CANAL.

GERMANS PROPOSE TO BRIDGE IT, CHRISTIAN MASSACRES THREATENED. ARMENIANS HANGED TO LAMP POSTS. PERSIA TURNS DOWN TURKEY. ' Cairo, December 14. Refugees report that the Germans are testing the bridge at Lake Tiberias (tho Sea of Galilee), which ia intended to use for crossing the Suez Canal. The Arabs in Syria are displaying unwillingness to invade Egypt, and have been replaced by Turks. \ Pctrograd, December 14. . Armenian refugees describe the terrible position of twenty thousand Christians at ErzeroLm. The Turks threaten to massacre them, owing to their Russ'ar, sympathies. ( Many Armenians and Greeks, «usp'ected of espionage, have been hanged without a trial. Their corpses, suspended from lamp-posts, swing in the wind for weeks. Turks passing spit on' the bodies, and compel Christians to do likewise. German officers control the situation. Fifty thousand Turkish soldiers and 1500 officers ore quartered in Erzeroum. A communique states that -there was'-all-day fighting on Friday at Pryousk, Ksmer and Doutak. The enemy every- ' where was repulsed, with heavy losses, and pursued beyond the Euphrates, v Times and Sydney Sun Services. ( Paris, December 14. A message from Athens states that there is a fresh mutiny of Turkish troops at Adrianople, and another at Selimie, near Scutari. ' Sofia, Dcceniber""l4. The Turks informed .the Libyans that the holy war was exclusively against Britain, France and Russra. Times and Sydney Sun Services. London, December 14. The Young Turk Party is thunderstruck at Persia's decision to remain neutral. It counted on the Shah's support to distract the British and facilitate Turkish attacks in Egypt. London, December 14. Copenhagen states that General von dor Goltz in Sofia handed King Ferdinand a long personal autograph letter from the Kaiser. lT» carried another to Bucharest and a third to the Sultan. VON DE GOLTZ TALKING. WHAT THE NATIONS 'WILL DO. " Received M, 12.15 a.m. Sofia, Decetaber 15. General Von der Goltz, interviewed, declared that Bulgaria would continue • her present policy, and, with Roumania, would receive a permanent extension of territory at the end of the war. ITALIANS ENDANGERED IN TURKEY. ;' Tunes, and Sydney Sun Services. London, December 14. Tho papers in Rome exhibit growing alarm at the Mussulman unrest in Asia Miner. They suggest tfiat the Government take immediate steps to repatriate 50,01)0 Italians domiciled in Asiatic .Turkey.