Against the Turks

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 182, 11 January 1915, Page 5

Against the Turks

TURKS RESUME THE OFFENSIVE. TEXTI-I ARIIV CORPS STILL FLEEING. Received 10, 3 p.m. \ Petrograd, January 9. : The Turks have resumed igoroua offensive in the Karauteam ' >ll, apt parently in order to relieve deplorable condition of the remi: lof the Tenth Army Corps retiring pr, Jpitatclj from Sary Kamysli. , ■ There is nothing to report elsewhere, in the Caucasus. . .

THE HODEIDA INCIDENT. i ITALY INSISTS ON AS" APOLOGY. ' Received 10, 5.5 p.m. London, January 9. Rome reports that the Government has fixed -January loth as the time-limit for Turkey to apologise for the liodeidft incident. Italy insists on the ii lease of the Consul, anu punishment of the violators of the Italian llag. : ; i SENTENCED TO DEATH. j A GERMAN BISHOP'S CRIME. Received 10, 3 p.m. Rome, January 9. The Catholic Bishop ot Haiffa, a port' of Syria, has been sentenced to death' in absentia for preaching in favour o? the Allies. t THE MARCH ON EGYPT. GERMAN COMMANDER ARRIVES AX DAMASCUS. Received 10, 3 p.m. " : Cairo, January 9. ' General Von Falkenberg, commanding the army marching against Egypt, haff arrived at Damascus. The Germans con,* siderably stiffened the Turkish forced twelve thousand Germans being drafted into one corps. rf

.. • i FRICTION WITH GREECE. TROUBLE BREWING. Times and Sydney Sun Services, 'j London, January 9. ' Repeated murders of Greeks in AslS Minor are reported. Tho arrogance of the Turks towards the Greek consuls is making a continuance of good relations between Greece ami Turkey difficult. > ~ ■ . ..j ' I