GENERAL ITEMS.

Taranaki Daily News, 26 April 1916, Page 5

GENERAL ITEMS.

NOTES FROM THE TIMES. DAILY NEWS ON COMPULSION. Times and Sydney Sun Services, , 'Received April 25, G p.m. London, A.pril 24. The Daily News says the question of further compulsion is second only to tlie issue concerning the Premier's authoriiy. Cabinet arrived at a, decision which does not necessarily correspond with any of the varying 'iredicirons, but it is difficult to believe they will justify anything approaching to compulsion's demands, for when, at the outside, compulsion can procure only a further three hundred thousand men, it i: difficult to assume thai Cabinet will jeopardise national unity. TURKISH COMMANDER REPLACED. The Times' Salonika correspondent states that the Turkish commander at Smyrna has been replaced by !'-'evman general. EX-SULTAN INTERNED. Ex-Sultan Abdul Hamid is now interned at Magnesia, the only town in Asia Minor which is still loyal to the Young Turks. 'DEATH OF VON DER GOLTZ. Press comments on tile late Von dor fioltz are lukc-warm, several describing him as an admirable theorist, but not possessing the ability to demonstrate his strategy in the present war. The newspaper L'Esho Beige ivomlers whether von der Ooltz really died of typhus, pointing out that his death occurred immediately after the fall oF Trcliizond, for which he was personally responsible. The I'rcnch press think von der Goltz's death and the fall of Trebizond will probably ruin German influence in the East.