THE ORIENT.

Taranaki Daily News, 2 October 1915, Page 5

THE ORIENT.

THE POSITION AT THE DARDANELLES. QUESTION IN THE HOUSE. Received Oct. 1, 5.5 p.m. London, Sept. 30. In the House of Commons, Mr. R. H. Outhwaite asked whether Sir G. W. Buchanan's statement at Petrograd was true, that the attack on the Dardanelles was partly due to a Russian request to divert the Turks from the Caucasus. Lord Robert Cecil replied that the operation doubtless drew the Turks from the Russian and Ejgyptian fronts, but a fuller statement was at present inexpedient. MUTINY IN TURKISH AW r DEMORALISATION RIFE. Received Oct. 1, 5.30 p.m. London, Oct. 1. The Times' Salonika correspondent has received a report from Mitylene that _ the seventh regiment of the twentieth division of the Turkish army corps stationed at Karalburnu mutinied and fled to the mountains. The division was ordered elsewhere and its commander dismissed. There is undoubted despondency and demoralisation in the Turkish army. ARMENIAN MURDERS. SUPERINTENDED BY GERMANS. London, Sept. 30. The Times' correspondent at Cairo says that some of the German Consuls encouraged the Armenian atrocities. Herr Rossler, the consul at Aleppo, went to Aikab and superintended them in person, and the notorious Baron Oppenheim suggested the removal of the women and children of the Allies to an area where they could not fail to witness the barbarities committed by the troops in the streets, which literally ran with blood. There was incontestable proof that Talgat Bey was the instigator. NEW ZEALAND ENGINEERS. MERITORIOUS WORK. London, Sept. 30. An Australian officer, in a letter, warmly praises the splendid work of the New Zealand Engineers, and says that it was greatly owing to their never- , failing energy, that we were able to ' hold many dangerous positions. A young New Zealand officer within eight days counter-mined and blew up five Turkish positions. , IN THE STRAITS. AN ALL DAY BOMBARDMENT. STRENGTHENING CHATALDJA DEFENCES. Received Oct. 2, 12.20 a.m. Amsterdam, Oct. 1. A Turkish communique says:—We silenced, on Tuesday, the batteries bombarding our positions near Seddul Bahr. Athens, Oct,- 1. Mitylene reports a fierce, day-long naval bombardment in the straits on Tuesday. Salonika, Oct. 1. The Germans are employing thirty thousand men to strengthen the Cliataldja forts. Four parallel lines of railway connecting the forts have been constructed, also ditches and canals to enable them to flood the plains 'outside, if necessary.