Against the Turks

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 191, 21 January 1915, Page 5

Against the Turks

THE ARMY IN SYRIA. HINDERED BY TRANSPORT TROIfBLES. London, January 19. The Evening News' Cairo correspond-1 ent estimates that there are .60,000 Turkish regulars, 60,000 recruits, and 70,000 Bedouins in Syria. A Paraeval airship and many motor vehicles are accumulated at Damascus.

The chief of the transport service told an interviewer that he was unable to organise proper provision supply through the deficiency of camels and horses. Colonel Kressensteis delivers frequent addresses in Damascus mosques. AN ALLEGED VICTORY, KAISER'S NEW GENEALOGICAL TREE. Cairo, January 19. A missionary refugee from Haifa says ; that the Turks celebrated an alleged [ victory over the Russians in the Caucasus by organising a fete and proces- ! sion, a feature of which was the honouring of Mahomet Kaiser. A Lutheran pastor was compelled to join the cry: "God protect Kaiser Hadj Wilhelm." For the benefit of the Arabs it has been discovered that the Kaiser is a direct descendant of the prophet's sister, and it was stated that he has undertaken to make a pilgrimage to Mecca at the end of the war.

A REIGN OF TERROR. OOKSTANTTtTOPLE'S DARK DAYS. Times and Sydney Son Services. Received 20, 5.40 pan. London, January 20. The reign of terror in Constantinople is compared to the worst days of Abdul Hamid. The paradisical city is ruled by Knver Pasha. Anybody attempting to