Against the Turks
PREPARING FOR DEFEAT. Received 30, 9.25 p.m. London, December 30. The Daily Telegraph's Athens correspondent says that Talaat Bey, who headed the anti-German section of the Young Turks, is reported to be really the mouthpiece of the Young Turks Committee which is secretly contemplating separation from Germany in the event of Turkey's war taking a bad turn. TURKISH MASSACRES. RUSSIANS ASSUME THE OFFENSIVE. Received 30, 9.55 pjn. Petrogvad, December 30. Official: The Russaina assumed the offensive in the Oiminsk region of the Caucasus, and occupied Cerdcnek, near Carykamish. They repulsed Turkish attacks in the direction of Khorosan. Tho Turks are committing atrocities among non-combatants. Entire villages havo been massacred. THE ARMY IN PALESTINE. AN ADVANCE AGAINST THE BRITISH. Times and Sydney Sun Services. Received 30, 6 p.m. London, December 30. The Turks assert that the Prophet brought the Holy Standard to Damascus amid the greatest rejoicing.) Five thousand volunteers in Syria are* marching against the British, who are alleged to have advanced on Bagdad.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 174, 31 December 1914, Page 5
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167Against the Turks Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 174, 31 December 1914, Page 5
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