OVERTHROW OF TURKEY.

Taranaki Daily News, 25 November 1918, Page 5

OVERTHROW OF TURKEY.

CONSEQUENCES REVIEWED.

gallipoli not in vain.- . London, Nov. I. The Times, in this morning's leader", says:—Turkey Hioisted the white flag because she is thoroughly and conclusively beaten in the field, and had W> hope of help from her defeated federates. Her overthrow was almost exclusively due to the British, and $ was fitting tlhat her submission should be made to a British admiral, for the dominant power of the navy had alone enabled the triumph of the armies in the East.

The hour of Boumania's rescue'is a£ hand, and tflie approaching allied «nB-< mand of the Black Sea sounds' th» death-knell of the tyranny of the Bolsheviks in Russia. The mistakes of the Dardanelles aro familiar to alt There was a time when on Ohramk Bair and Sari Bair our object was almost afc tained. Later, we discovered that ti» flower of the Turkish Army had been broken at Gallipoli, whose victims did not fall in vain on the beaches of death. Turkey did not recover from <Bw campaign, and when General Allenby advanced lie did not look back, but destroyed the Turkish Army by one of ti# finest examples of generalship pvarynfy nessed.

The Mesopotamia!! campaign has also its glorious pages. One of the fiisfc consequences of Turkey's submission Is cpnoeivably ; a naval battle in the Bhwfc Sea, where Germany controls, in adifr tion to tlhe Goeben, two Dreadnoughts, seven older battleships, 20 destroyers, and some submarines. The condition of the vessels is unknown, bat their doom is sealed. That the doom of German in-i fluence in the Near and Middle East WW' sealed at Mudros, is equally certain. Berlin accounts state that Tarjfceiyf tried her negotiations for peace at tw centres—Berne and Mitylene. General Townshend, from the Vali of Aldin (Western Asia Minor), then •went to Admiral Calthorpe, whither the Naval Minister and the Under-Secretary, fos, Foreign Affairs followed. Mr Barnes, member of the Watf Cabinet, speaking in London, stated that the -armistice with Turkey might haye been previously signed. We tied hejd the Turks on a string for the past fortnight, but we were in no hurry to finish with the Turks until we had captured: Aleppo, which would bo the capital of ft future free Ara.b state. We toad been collecting warships at the mouth of ths Dardanelles for some time. Once there, there was nothing to prevent the fleeij ascending the Danube to the back aooif of (jermany. J