HANDS OFF!

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLI, Issue 9405, 30 January 1913, Page 5

HANDS OFF!

GERMANY AS TURKEY'S FRIEND.

INTERESTS IN ASIA MINOR IDENTICAL.

(Bt Electbic Telegraph—Coptiioit). iPeb Press Association.) Received January 30, 9.50 a.m. CONSTANTINOPLE, Jan. 29. Herr Wangcniieim, German Ambassador, in a speech at a German banquet, said Turkey's future lay in Asia Minor. Germany's interests there were bound up with Turkey's. Germany's injunction was: "Hands off Turkish possessions in Asia Minor." RUSSIA AS ARMENIA'S FRIEND. TROOPS READY TO LAY HANDS ON ASIA MINOR. Received Junuarv 30, 9.10 a.m. ODESSA, Jan. 29. The Armenians are imperilled owing to the fanaticism of the Kurds, and they are appealing for Russian protection. Seventy thousand Russians are mobilised on the Turkish-Armenian frontier, in Asia Minor. GERMANY HELPS TURKEY'S ALLY AND IS CONDEMNED BY RUSSIAN PRESS. BUCHAREST, Jan. 29. It is rumoured that German financiers have secured a Roumanian loan of six million sterling. ST. PETERSBURG, Jan. 29. The press condemns Germany's financial help to Roumania at the present juncture. Received January 30, 9.10 a.m. LONDON, Jan. 29. The Roumanian and Bulgarian representatives held another meeting in London, under the shadow of the Ambassadors' Conference. DEATH ROLL OF NON-COM-BATANTS. 35,000 KILLED DURING WAR, Received January 30, 9.10 a.m. LONDON, Jan. 29. The Times' Constantinople correspondent estimates that twenty thousand Moslem and fifteen thousand Christian non-combat-ants were killed during the war. ALLIES' NOTE TO TURKEY. LONDON, Jan. 29. M. Novakovitch presents the Allies' Note to Reschid Pasha to-day. It states that the absence of fresh proposals and recent events at Constantinople makes the silence of the Porte significant. The delegates, therefore, place on record the rupture of negotiations. No mention is made of the termination of the armistice. The Allies thank King George and the Government for their hospitality. Received January 30, 9.35 a.m. The Allies' Note has been handed to Reschid Pasha. The Allies' Note states that the plenipotentiadies awaited a reply for three weeks, but events at Constantinople appeared to destroy the hope of peace. Therefore negotiations would be broken off. TURKEY'S REPLY TO POWERS. LONDON, Jan. 29. The Chronicle's Constantinople correspondent says the Turkish reply will be that they will thank the Powers for their benevolent advice, and regret that it is impossible to make further concessions. Received Januarv 30. 10.40 a.m. LONDON, Jan. 29. Router states that the Porte i 6 proposing peace concessions on a basis providing en entirely new solution of the difficulty. WHAT SHEVKET WANTS. PEACE WITH HONOUR, LONDON, Jan. 29. The Daily Telegraph's Constantinople correspondent has had an interview with Shevket Pasha. After outlining optimistically the new Government's programme and administrative reforms, he was cornered by tho pressmen on the question of whether it was to be peace or war. He declared : "Peace, if Europe makes peace possible. We do not intend to defy Europe or reply to her advice by bluster. We do not want to draw the sword unless the only alternative is the reprobation of Mussulman opinion. CONFLICT IN TURKISH ARMY. AVENGING NAZIM'S DEATH. VIENNA, Jan. 29. There are persistent rumours of a sanguinary conflict in the Turkish army at ( hataldja, between Young Turks and the late Nazim Pasha's partisans: also that Acmedabuk Pasha with the fourth army corps is marching on Constantinople to a\enge Nazim Pasha's death.

FIGHTING AT BIZANI.

Received January 30, 11.15 a.m. ATHENS, Jan. 29

The Crown Prince shelled and blew up a Turkish magazine at Bizani. The Greeks aleo captured two lines of entrenchments.