CONSTANTINOPLE.

Feilding Star, Volume XI, Issue 2897, 29 December 1915, Page 2

CONSTANTINOPLE.

FAMINE AND REVOLUTION' TURKS' SEPARATE PEACE

WIDELY DISCUSSED

London, December 27

Signor Magrini, a noted Italian war correspondent, interviewed a Roumanian professor from Constantinople, who says tho German reign of terror is increasing there. Travellers are undressed and searched, tho police control tho bread supplies, and everybody congregates in fcho mosques and churches, where small daily rations are distributed. Mohammedans violently resent the increasingly domineering attitude of the Germane. Wounded Turks are continually coming into Constantinople from the eagt. The new German Ambassador lias taken ovor tho control of the police and Ministry for Finance in the capital. Anglo-French submarines are raiding tho Sea of Marmora and dominating the Golden Horn (opposite Constantinople). It iR believed that there are six submarines, including one Italian.

Tho advisability of separate peace is widely discussed in the city. Even the Young Turks Party are uneasy. Enver Pasha excuses tho cession of

Thracian territory to Bulgaria as temporary, saving it will be returned, •with Asia Minor and the islands,

when Bulgaria obtains from Greece Sci'os, Drama, and Kavala. "It is be- . licved the Germans intend only to make demonstrations against Egypt, concentrating their efforts on pushing through Persia. General yon der Goltz asseits that Persia must be Toutoniscd. Germans are conscripting Persians in Constantinople, declnring that this is a Holy War.