TURKISH NATIONALISTS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 17989, 16 July 1920, Page 5

TURKISH NATIONALISTS

BULGAR CO-OPERATION. Press AesociaTion —By Telegraph—Copyright. ATHENS, July 14. A report from Kara-Gatch confirms the co-operation between the Turks and the Bulgars. The Bulgarian Government, in addftion to secretly calling up the classes of 1918 to 1920, has now summoned the 1921 class to the Colours.—A. and N.Z. Cable. ARMENIANS DEFEAT TURKS. ATHENS, July 14. Reports from Tiflis state that the Armenian army attacked the Tartars and Kemalists, and occupied the region of Zazobas. The Turks abandoned their war prisoners and fled towards the Araxes River (which rises in Armenia near Mount Ararat, and enters the Caspian Sea south of Baku). —A. and N.Z. Cable. THE GRECIAN CAMPAIGN. THIRD PHASE CLOSED. ALL OBJECTIVES GAINED. ATHENS, July 14. The occupation of Brusa closes the third phase of the Greek campaign, all objectives having been gained. The fourth stage contemplates an advance on the Eiskishehir-Bagdad railway. —Times. TURKS CONFIDENT. "AN IMPREGNABLE POSITION." CONSTANTINOPLE, July 15. (Received July 16, at 1.15 a.m.) Kemal Pasha, speaking at the Angora Assembly, said that the Nationalists now hold an impregnable position inland, and are able to resist further Greek attacks. —Times.