TURKISH ARMIES DEMORALISED

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3027, 14 March 1917, Page 7

TURKISH ARMIES DEMORALISED

GRAVE HAPPENINGS IN CONSTANTINOPLE GERMAN SCHEMES SHATTERED DASHING ATTACK ON MILE FRONT The Turkish defeat in Mesopotamia is assuming grave dimensions. A dispatch to-day states that tho army is demoralised, and is short of food and munitions. Thoir other armies in Asia Minor are in. tho samo parlous condition. Envor Pasha, in the Turkish Chamber of Deputies, has admitted the Bagdad disaster, doscribing it—and the reverse on tho Persian front—as "a. retirement for military reasons." Gravo events, are reported to have happened in Constantinople. In the House of Commons, Mr. Bonar Law has paid a splendid tribute to tho British victory, which was tho sequel .to a series of brilliant operations. In the West, tho British havA slightly improved their position at Bounhavcsnos, and carried out successful trench raids. Tho French have launched and successfully brought off a. brilliant attack ;ib Maison-de-Chanipague, advancing on a front of something nnder a inile, taking prisoners and achieving their objective. There are no new developments on the other main fronts. The German- American situation remains the same. The Government has defined tho status of the armed Araeri- : can liners, which will carry an armed guard, and naval gunners for protection when traversing the submarine zone.