Against the Turks

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 183, 12 January 1915, Page 5

Against the Turks

THE UNFINANCIAL PORTE. WAXTON MURDERS BY TURKS. THE PERSECUTION OF GREEKS. BRITISHERS IN CHAINS. Sofia, January 10. A telegram from Constantinople savs that the Porte's finances are acute. Tim Constantinople Board of the Ottoman Bank lias been placed provisionally under a curatorium during the war. In order to provide financial relief the Porte evidently intends confiscating the funds. Athens, January 10. The Turks are not satisfied with the expulsion of 120,000 Greeks from Asia Minor in the autumn, and persecution has been renewed. Official messages have been published" detailing the wanton murder of inoffensive Greeks at Kiriadj, Barudjuk, Ligia and other villages. Requisitions, amounting to confiscation, have been enforced on Christians Meanwhile, numerous destitute Greeks have taken refuge in Smyrna. Rome, January 10. Advices from Beirut state that all the French and Greek residents have been sent to Damascus for police supervision Two English, attempting to escape from Beirut, were sent to Damascus ill chains.

THE MARCH ON EGYPT. A GREAT CAMEL CORPS. Received 11, 5.5 pm. Times and Sydney Sun Services. London, January 11. The Turkish army in Syria is equipped with 13,000 camels for the advance on Agypfe TIIRF.ATF.XED MASSACRE OF CHRISTIANS. ANOTuLI' EXAMPLE OF "Kt'LTUR." Received 12, 12.50 a.m. London, January 11. 'flic Daily Telegraph's Athens correspondent says the German Ambassador at Constantinople has warned the Minister of the Balkan States that in the event of the Allies'" fleet forcing the Dardanelles, the Turks will massacre the' Christian population.

NOT A HOLY WAR. CHRISTIANS IX DANGEROUS POSITIOX. A THREATENED SLAUGHTER. Received 12, 12.50 a.m. . London, January 11. The Daily Mail's Cairo correspondent states that while Zcke Pasha recently .leclared at Damascus that the slaughter of Christians' would follow any bombardment of the coast, the Sheik at Damascus, during a sermon, protested that the present, was not a holy war, adding: "We have allied Christians against Christians." HOSTILITIES CONTINUE. .Received 12, 12.50 a.m. Petrograd, January 11. Official.—Fighting in the environs of Karaurgan continues stubbornly. Other fronts are unchanged.