STATEMENTS BY TURKISH DESERTERS.
TURKS DESIRE PEACE. <
(Received July 27, 10.25 a.m.) : SOFIA, July 26. Turkish deserters state that there is ;a strong demand for peace. Turkish .officers and men all consider that tney have no chance of success. Four German officers shot at a group £ soldiers lpaving the firing-line, and , Turkish officer and his men immeliately killed the Germans. Colonel yon Leipzig was killed trader similar circumstances. y Reserve troops in the Chataldja lines, under General yon Sanders, mutinied. Enver Pasha had to intervene, and finally sent the troops to the interior, replacing them by Asia Minor contingents. ■
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume XXXV, Issue 8202, 27 July 1915, Page 5
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