Against the Turks
ENEMY CONCENTRATING IN PALESTINE. GERMAN OFFICERS NOT CONFIDENT. CRUELTIES TO JEWS. Received 22, 12.20 a.m. Cairo, January 21. Refugees from Palestine report a steady concentration of Turkish troops in the Beersheba region, forty miles from the frontier, and 150 miles from the Suez Canal, with many German officers, who are much less confident of success than the Turks. Many cases of ill-treatment of Zionist Jews are reported. The Turks occupied Mount Carmel Convent. ' NO HELP FOR THE TURKS. ARMY MUST FACE CERTAIN DEATH. AT THE HANDS OF THE RUSSIAN'S. ABSOLUTE FAILURE OF ENTER PASHA'S SCHEMES. Times and Sydney Sun Services. ' Received 21, 6.40 p.Bfc London, January 21. A correspondent writes that it is considered in Petrograd that Enver Pasha's ambitious plans in the Caucasus completely failed. Tile maximum force the enemy is now able to assemble in the Armenian theatre cannot exceed 80,000 men, and the sole course remaining to the Turks is to shut themselves in Erzeroum, and there die a valiant death, since it is impossible for them to expect help from any quarter.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 192, 22 January 1915, Page 5
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179Against the Turks Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 192, 22 January 1915, Page 5
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