TURKEY

Taranaki Daily News, 4 February 1916, Page 5

TURKEY

LONGING FOR PEACE. NO MONEY AVAILABLE. SEER-APPAaENT COMMITS SUICIDE. New York, Feb. I. The World'i correspondent at Athens My* that arrivals from Constantinople rtport thai the Turks are longing for peace. Talaat Bey's pessimistic speech . in the Chamber, showing that Turkey is It the end of her financial resources, is interpreted as a warning to Germany that she must grant loans if further cooperation is desired. ■TJie Young Turks Committee urged the Porte to insist on guarantees that . if Egypt is occupied it must become an Integral part of Turkey. , Talaat Bey "reassured them on the .< point, adding 4hat 280,000 men under 'ttjemal Pasha would participate in the expedition. Constantinople, Feb. 2. The Turkish heir-apparent, Prince Yusauf, committed suicide at the palace flurisg *» illness by cutting his arteries. DOCTORS CERTIFY TO $ . SUICIDE.

EKEBNDLY TO ATJJES. Received Feb. 3, 10.25 p.m. Constantinople, Feb. 2. Prince Ynssuf opened the veinß in his left' arm,... He will be buried in the tomb of Sultan Humid at Stamboui, •with the dustomary ceremonies. ... The principal doctors at Constantinople sighed a statement that suicide was thft cause of the death of Prince Ynssuf. He held the Iron Cross, but .it is believed he favored peace and the Allies. .He educated his daughters in Engfish tyle.