TRAINED TURKS
HALF A" MILLION MOBILISED. A MOVE TOWARDS EGYPT. LONDON, 31st October. Half a million trained Turks have been mobilised, of whom a hundred thousand are in the Caucasus, two hundred thousand on the Boaphorus, add forty thousand in Palestine. In addition there are Arab irregulars and camel corps. Reports from Constantinople state that troops are moving on the Egyption frontier. A Berlin telegram states that strong Turkish cavalry detchments have arrived at the Gulf of Akaba, and that scouts with a wireless installation have reached the extremity of the Sinai Peninsula. \ [Tho Sinai Peninsula is a wedgeshaped tongue of land projecting into the northern end of the Red Sea. It is bordered on one side by the Gulf of Akaba and on the 'other by the Gulf of Suez, which is connected with the Mediterranean, from its northern end, by the Suez Canal.]
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Evening Post, Volume LXXXVIII, Issue 107, 2 November 1914, Page 7
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145TRAINED TURKS Evening Post, Volume LXXXVIII, Issue 107, 2 November 1914, Page 7
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