TURKEY.

Evening Star, Issue 15908, 14 September 1915, Page 6

TURKEY.

MORE PREDICTIONS OF IMMINENT COLLAPSE, UNLESS GERMANY SENDS AID. LONDON, September 13. (Received September 14, at 9.55 a.m.) The 'Daily Telegraph's' Athens correspondent reports that a Turkish official source states that the higher German command has notified Berlin that the Turkish army cannot continue bevond September 20. - i Reports from private sources agree in depicting the position in Turkey as deplorable, and collapse is sure unless German help is. soon oealised. ' TO STIMULATE ELAN. London 'Time*' and Sydney 'Sua' Servlo»». LONDON, September 13. A French official message states that news has been received from Constantinople to the effect that, in consequence of their terrible losses on Galiipoli, the morale of the Turkish troops is much impaired, and in order to improve it the authorities have decided to distribute copies of the Koran as gifts from the Sultan during the Feast of Bairam. ARMENIAN APPEAL. London 'Times' and Sydney Sim' Servioes, LONDON, September 13. The Armenians resident-in Geneva have issued an appeal to the civilised world to save the remnant of their martyr people. The inhabitants of Armenia, have been driven into the_ interior of Mesopotamia, and most of tho able-bodied men have been massacred. The appeal protests against this appalling crime, unparalleled in history, even that of. the age of barbarians. AUSTRALIAN RECRUITS. DOUBLE REINFORCEMENTS. EQUIPMENT FOR ALL. MELBOURNE, September 14. (Received September 14, at 8.5 a.m.) There are now 27,345 men in training in Victoria—the greatest number in camp during the war. s~ (Received September 14, at 9 a.m.) Senator Pearce states that the Defence authorities are able to equip all the men who offer. The military authorities, he says, have no power to.release men from training for agricultural work, -but there is no objection to farmers who enlist deferring their training for a few weeks. Tho authorities state that double the usual number of reinforcements are being despatched, and 10,500 will be leaving monthly until November, when the quota to be raised will be 6,000 a month. No new units are being formed. ' SYDNEY,; September 14. ,_There axe many complaints in connection with the Sportsmen Battalion, because men are drafted into various camps, instead of being kept together. Already 500 are in camp. The councils of the Chamber of Commerce and of the Employers' Federation have both decided to support the Universal Service League. BRISBANE, September 14. The August enlistments totalled 3,013.

RED CROSS DEFECTS. SYDNEY, September 14. (Received September 14, at'B.s'a.m.) The Red Cross Commissioner in Egypt has cabled that six business men would be capable of handling Red Cross goods, and there are four suitable, men engaged.