OTTOMAN EMPIRE IMPERILLED BY A WRETCHED, BRAINLESS PUPPET

Evening Post, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 7, 9 January 1915, Page 7

OTTOMAN EMPIRE IMPERILLED BY A WRETCHED, BRAINLESS PUPPET

ENVER PASHA THE CAUSE OF TURKEY'S RUIN (Received January 9, 9 aon.) LONDON, Bth January. A Turkish colonel told the Bourse Gazette correspondent that Enver Pasha had been the cause of Turkey's ruin. He added : "This wretched, brainless puppet of the Kaiser has brought Turkey to a position which is imperilling the Ottoman Empire. There is no true -Turkey; she is now only a German province, which the Germans "will carry down in their own ruin." FEW TURKS IN RUSSIAN TERRITORY (Received January 9, 9 a.m.) LONDON, Bth January. Petrograd advises that, excepting scattered bands of fugitives, no longer are there any Turkish troops in Russian territory. GERMAN PRESS DOES NOT REFER TO THE DEBACLE AMSTERDAM, ■ Bth January. No reference is made in the German newspapers to the Turkish debacle at Sara Kamysh. TURKISH TRANSPORT SUNK (Received January 9, 8.50 a.m.) PARIS, Bth January. Official. — A Turkish transport was mined and sunk at the entrance to the Bosphorus. A Russian cruiser, and* destroyer shelled* the -Medjidieh, .near Trebizond. The Turkish Medjidieh was damaged, but a transport she was convoying has sunk. [The Medjidieh is a Turkish cruiser of 330 tons, bnHfc in 1903. She has a speed of about twenty knots, and is armed with two 6-inch, eight 4.7-inch, and ft dozen jmaller guofrj

GERMAN OPINION REGARDING THE SITUATION (Times and Sydney Sun Services.) (Received January 9, 8.30 a.m.) LONDON, Bth January. Military circles in Berlin consider the situation of the Turks in the Caucasus 1 favourable. Increasing numbers of Mohammedans are enlisting.