THE ORIENT.

Taranaki Daily News, 25 September 1915, Page 5

THE ORIENT.

THE SITUATION AT CALLIPOLI. COMPLAINTS OF PRESS CENSORSHIP. (Timea and Sidney Sun Services,) Received Sept. 24, 5.10 p.m. London, Sept. 23. In the House of Commons Sir A. B. Markham, complaining 1 of the censorship, stated that when there was bad news from the Dardanelles the people had to get it from friends and relatives. The House had been kept in complete ignorance of the seriousness of the situation at Gallipoli. LIFE AT THE PORTE. AN UNPLEASANT PICTURE. Paris, Sept. 23. A Swiss, who has returned from Constantinople, declares that life there has become intolerable. All the Christians, except the Germans, are disarmed and completely terrorised. Necessities are dear, and there is an entire absence of electricity, gas, and candles. Crowds throng the bakeries and fight for bread. The police openly sell to the Turks Armenian orphans of both seves as slaves, their prices ranging from 6s 8d to 9s 6d. Well-conditioned girls are rather dearer. The Turks have detained 400 French of both sexes, and a large number of Russians and British at Damascus. GERMANS BUSY IN SYRIA. ANOTHER DESCENT ON EGYPT CONTEMPLATED. Received Sept. 24, 6.35 p.m. . Paris, Sept. 23. According to Les Debats, two thousand German officers in Syria are training an army, armed with new rifles, intended for a second expedition to Egypt in mid-November. The Turks have constructed a new railway to the .starting-point at Biresseba, on the edge of the desert, and guns and ammunition are steadily pouring in. Eight hundred cavalry are engaged as scouts. A GENERAL PANIC. HASTENING TO~CONSTANTINOPEE. Received Sept. 24, 6.35 p.m. Athens, Sept. 23. There is a panic among the Mussulman population of Karagatch and other districts. These are being transferred to Bulgaria, and numbers have taken refuge at Adrianople, which is also panic-stricken. Many families, despite M. Vali's exhortation, are packing their valuables and hastening to Constantinople.

AT ANAFARTA. POSITION BRIGHTER. Received Sept. 24, 10.35 p.m. Athens, Sept. M. The Allied batteries made a violent bombardment upon the Anafarta positions, and as a result the heights may be occupied without the. neeessity for a general assault.