BITTER FEELING AGAINST GERMANS.

Press, Volume LI, Issue 15313, 29 July 1915, Page 8

BITTER FEELING AGAINST GERMANS.

COPENHAGEN. July 27. An employee of a salvage company who has just returned from Constantinople, where ho wad engaged in repairing warships, states that the Turks are at their wius' end for fuel and ammunition. All the old warships havo been stripped of useful metals, and a h&u.~e to houso search instituted for the same purpose. Th© Turkish feeling against the Germans is increasingly bitter. Thure was a big iight at tbe Constantinople infantry barracks a fortnight ago, in which, ten Germans wero killed and fourteen wounded. The attitude of the population is ' dangerously hostile. They wdl undrrubtedlv ris<> against "-lie. Germans at tbo first opi-ortunity. The authorities aro consequently confiscating their arms wholesale. Gunners from the Dardanelles forts stated that only a limited number of shells was allowed for taeh gun daily.

ANOTHER. STORY. PLENTY OF AMMUNITION. ("Trnioa" and ''Sj-flnev Sun" Services.) (Received July 33th, 8 p.m.) LONDON, July 27. Mr Henry Neviu«son, cabling from the Dardanelles, says he has been informed that tho vigour of tho Turkish attack has been much reduced, but all speak highly of the courage and clean methods of the lighting of tho • Turks. Prisoners declare that rifles and ammunition are plentiful, and a large q-....uty of shells havo been imported, while food is certainly better than during tho Balkan .wars. No inhabitants arc left in the whole district of Acbi Baba, where there is- nothing but bare ground and tangled lines of trenches, hidden guns, . and thousands of invisible fighters.

SICKNESS AT THE FRONT. (Received July 23th, 8.15 p,m.) LONDON, July 28. In the Houso of Commons Mr Tenaant announced that there was a certain amount of enteric and dysentery at the Dardanelles. ANOTHER SUBMARINE RAID. LONDON, July 28. Renter's Sofia correspondent states that a British submarino destroyed a large, vessel laden with charcoal off Maltapeh, on the Astatic <shore of the oca of Marmora, and destroyed part of the railway line at Dilikleszi by gunfire.

A FALSE CHARGE. AMSTERDAM. July 27. , -A Turkish communique accuses the Allies of using asphyxiating shells. Thi s : possibly foreshadows the Turks' employment of similar shells.

- THE ASIATIC SIDE. TURKS PREPATUNG DEFENCES. (Received July 29th, 12.5 a.m.) LONDON, July 28.. Tho "Daily Chronicle's" Athens correSDondent say s arrivals from the Dardanelles state that tho Turks apparently believe the Allies will choose the Asia, "Minor coast for a new attack, and are feverishly fortifying the shore from Kuin Kale "to Baba Kalessi. Tho whole length is being bored with trenches, at 'which work thousands of Greeks and other Christians are forced to .assist. Strom* fortifications are being "bnilt on this side, and a number of howitzers from Smyrna have been £ laced behind the hills rising from Eendero, and the plain of Troy.is heavily entrenched. . .

ACCOMMODATION FOR WOUNDED. (Received July 29th. 12.5 a.m.) * MAj-TA. July 28. "Lord Methuen, Governor of Malta, states that- peri'bet accommodation for six thousand wounded is now provided, • increasing to nearly ten thousand in 1 .the next fortnight. . RUSSIA'S LAND CAMPAIGN. A CAVALRY SUCCESS. . (Received July 29th, 12.5 a.m.) PETROGRAD. July 3. An official message from the Caucasus front says that the enemyj strongly reinforced in the Moosh Region, continues to resist. A Russian cavalry rogiment Babied ~ two companies of ICOurks and drove the remnants back io Euphratos.. - IN THE BLACK SEA. TURKISH FORTS BOMBARDED. '." \ (Received July 28th. 9.40 p.m.) PETROGRAD, 'July 28. . An official statement says:—"Our ■torpedo craft bombarded Samsoon and Rizah. in the Black Sea, killing , 150 ' tailors." ■ • ' Samsoon (or Samsun) is a. seaport on the coast of the rilayot of Trebizond. Rizoh is a small port about 230 miles oast of Samsoon, and 41 miles east of the port of Trebizond.