Against the Turks

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 185, 15 January 1915, Page 5

Against the Turks

Turks relucvan'r to advance recruits Disheartened. TAS&Ii OCCUPIED. RUSSIAN ADVANCE' CHECKED. ARMENIANS MASSACRED. TURKS DENOUNCE GERMANS. Coi'.srautinople, January 13. It is denied fiir, (he Egyptian expedition has been abandoned. R< liter's Cairo correspondent says the Turkish officers •::>n':r,iii- l . , ii.> in S'?i>Ui°rii Syria do not show a desire to iu.l.iuuc southwards, demanding that Constantinople send more trained soldiers. The news of tbe Turkish defeat in the Caucasus is disheartening the recruits who are mustering at Hebron. German officers are chiefly the impelling factor. London, January 13.

Router's correspondent at Petrograd reports that a Turkish advance guard has occupied Tabriz. Petrograd, January 13. The Turks have assembled about a hundred thousand men, mainly officered by Germans, at Karaurgan, thus checking the Russian advance on the threshold of Ottoman territory. Turks and Kurds have reached Maraga. A massacre of Armenians between Lakes Van and Noza is reported. Many Christians at Azerbaijan and in the Alaskert valley died of hunger and cold. Fifty thousand refugees reached the Caucasus. Enver Bey executed several officers at Erzeroum for expressing disrespect to Germany. Turkish prisoners, brought to tears, vehemently denounce the Germans for ruining Turkey. Official.—S'overc fighting is taking place at Karaurgan. The Russians took 1500 prisoners, including eleven officers belonging to the 02nd Infantry, and destroyed a battalion of the 52nd, whereof the remnant were taken prisoners. They also captured a hill in Turkish territory and seized a depot of artillery shells and cartridges.

INDESCRIBABLE HORRORS. TERRIBLE DESOLATION IN ARMENIA. Times and Sydney Sun Services. Received 14, 5.20 p.m. . London, January 14. There is terrible desolation in Armenia, and the wholesale slaughter continues. Fifty thousand homeless are streaming through the valleys of the Caucasus. The horrors of the march are indescribable. Many children have been abandoned on the roads, and adults are dying of cold and hunger.

THE BRESLAU'S MISTAKES. BOMBARDS TURKISH FORCES, RUSSIANS SEIZE THE OPPORTUNITY. Received 14, S2O p.m. Petrograd, January 13. A curious evidence of the Turkish fleet's activity was furnished by the Breslau bombarding the positions of the Turkish troops near Chopa. The Russians thus occupied the positions which the Turks were forced by their own guns to evacuate. The Russians destroyed several Turkish vessels in the Riza district.

THE IXVASION OF PERSIA. A STRATEGIC MOVE. Received 14, 10.50 p.m. London, January 14. Reuter's Petrograd correspondent states that it is believed the Turks' object in invading neutral territory in Persia is to get to the vulnerable Russian frontier, using Tabriz as a base. The Persians hope for Anglo-Russian aid.

BRITAIX'S PLAX IN SYRIA. A XEW AND INDEPENDENT KINGDOM. Received 14, 10.50 p.m. Rome, January 14. Tho Giornale lTtalia says that Britain is planning to transform Syria into an independent kingdom, with Prince Mahomet Daudas as Sovereign, under British protection This will bring a realisation of Britain's hope for a railway from the Syrian coast to Calcutta. -