TURKEY.
CONDITIONS IST CONSTANTINOPLE. Berne Jan. S. A neutral who has lived for sever:?! years in Constantinople supplies details of the conditions ruling there. Tlui people are eating bread smelling of petroleum and made of wheat abandoned by the troops at Gallipoli, which was drenched with petroleum ir. the hope that it would be rendered useless. Sugar costs 13s a kilogramme, coffee 14s, and petroleum SOs for 2J gallons. The Bosphorus fisheries have been abandoned owingNto mines. The Russian flaet periodically bombards the coaling station and practically blockades the Bosphorus. Since the capture of Trebizond, of 250 merchant vessels at the Golden Hcrr.at the beginnning of the. war all except six have been sunk by the Russians in the Black Sea or by the British and French submarines in the sea of Marmora, - NAVAL AEROPLANES WBECK A BRIDGE. j Received Jan. 7, 11.15 p.m. London, Jan. 7. Admiralty naval aeroplanes wrecked a span of the Kubeli Burgas railway bridge over tbe Maritza: River.
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Taranaki Daily News, 8 January 1917, Page 5
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