Against the Turks

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 18, 13 January 1915, Page 5

Against the Turks

TERRORISM INCREASES. cjiiustiaxs closjely watched. Times ami Sydney Sua Services. Received 12, 5.20 p.m. ' London, January 12. Alliens newspapers report tliat panic and terromition arc increasing at Constantinople. Christians are closely watched, and extreme exactions enforced in the shape of military taxes.

A RASH ENTERPRISE. PROPOSED DASII OX SUEZ CANAL. TURKS MASSING LARGE FORCES. Times and Sydney Sun Services. Received 12, .j.20 p.m. London, January 1-2. Ottoman leader, in Syria, inspired by tlie Hermans, seem to have decided to attempt the advance on Suez Canal, and are massing -grout forces and immense supplies, hut the projected movement westward is very slow. THE SARY KAMYSH DEFEAT. QUITE A RECORD CONFLICT. FOUGHT AT (111-ill ALTITUDES. Times and Sydney Sun Services. London, January 11. A Russian military expert considers that the lurkish defeat at Sary Kamysh overshadows General von Moltke's overwhelming the French at Sedan. For the first time in military history 4 two large armies fought at an altitude of 10,000 feet in a severe winter. ISKHAN PASHA'S SURRENDER. Petrograd, January 11. A message from Tiflis states that Iskhan Pasha surrendered when only 300 men remained. A WISE DECISION. TURKS LEAVE EGYPT ALONE. AFRAID OK BRITAIN. Received 12, 9.15 p.m. London, January 12. Tlie Daily Telegraph's Athens correspondent says that it is admitted in Constantinople Inat the expedition against Kgypt failed, the Turks fearing the British would land on the Syrian coast, and endanger their communications.