Against the Turks

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 189, 19 January 1915, Page 5

Against the Turks

MC( H ADO ABOVT NOTHING. PROPOSED ADYAM'K OX EGYPT. PERSIAX POPULATION* HELPLESS. Times and Sydnev Sun Services. London, January 17. A message from Cairo states that the Turks are undoubtedly advancing in force. The genert'l opinion is that they will never reach the Suez Canal. Petrograd reports that the Turks are gradually advancing in the interior of Persia. The people are helpless and are unable to resist. A WARM RECEPTION. IE TURKS MARCH ON E.tIYPT. ALLIES HOLD TRUMP CARDS Times and Sydney Sun Services. Received IS. 5 p.m. London, January IS. The Times' militaiy correspondent says that if the seventy thousand Turks' reported to be missing in Syria cross the desert they will meet » warm reception. The navy can also take a leading shave not only in the Sue/. Canal but in operating off Elarishakbah. \Ye ought to have all the trumps in our hands in playing this rubber, but we must not forget that the, Turks fight with courage. They are a military people with great traditions, and must not be despiso»l.

TO CERTAIN DEATH". FRICTION" BETWEEN' GERMANS AXI) TURKS. TILE ATTACK ILL-ADVISED. Received 18, 10.40 p.m. Cairo, January 18. The Press Bureau has issued a communique based on statements made by refugees. It deserbes the army invading Egypt as likely to display bravery but incapacity. Many arc starving owing to bad organisation rather than lack of supplies. There arc insufficient horses and camels, yet many of the camels are dying. The troops ure ill-clothed in summer khaki. German ollieers replied to Berlin that they were unable to advise an attack ~n Egypt with such trcOfs, and saggested a postponement. Germany, however, ordered tliem to march through. One"officer describes them as marching to certain death. Refugees state that Ihe feeling between Turkish rod German officers is bad. The latter fear tl.it if they do not succeed in crossing; tic Canal the Turks will attack them. BATTLE OP KAUIIAUUGAN. COMPLETE RUSSIAN VKTORY. Petrograd, January IS. Official: The battle of Kauraurgan lasted for three days in a continuous snowstorm, and ended in a complete Russian victory. The Turkish rearguard was annihilated. Remnants of tin; army, harried on its flanks, are lleeing to Erzeruin. The purMiifc is being pressed. The fugitives, being unable to carry guns, flung thru; from the heights.

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