THE TURKISH EMPIRE.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLII, Issue 10114, 23 October 1917, Page 5

THE TURKISH EMPIRE.

ITS INTEGRITY GUARANTEED BY !' THE KAISER.* • ' Received October 23,-10.55 a.m. AMSTERDAM, Oct. 22. Count Rcvcntlow, in an article in the Tage Zoitu'ng, says the Kaiser 'Visited Constantinople to assure the Government that Germany would guarantee tlio integrity of the Turkish Empire, including Egypt. MORE GERMAN TREACHERY KAISER'S- AGENTS WORKING ON TROOPSHIPS. (Router's Telegram.) Received October 23, 11 a.m. NEW YORK. Oct. 22. It in reported that German agents work ing as mechanics put in wooden rivets in fieul of steel plates while repairing the troopships. Thirty-eight have been interned from Hoboken shipyards. THE ZEPPELIN RAIDS. ELEVEN AIRSHIPS ENGAGED. Australian-New Zealand Cable Association. PARIS, Oct. 21. The log book of the undamaged Zeppelin shows that the craft was returning from England Prisoners from three of the Zeppelins state that, they were sent to England and lost their way on th'e return journey. The captured Zeppelins seem to bo a new type bigger than the usual and able to fly 110 kilometres hourly and rise 6000 metres. LONDON, Oct, 22. Apparently eleven airships were engaged in the raid, 'of which eight reached France. The three others retired via Holland. An airship reported disabled over Toulon, and almost in a vertical position, disappeared over the. .Mediterranean, and it is believed' it fell into the sea. French aviators were compelled to abandon the pursuit owing to night approaching. The Zeppelins were the largest yet seen; some must have been in the air thirty hours, travelling twelve hundred miles. ' It is estimated that whereas (here were eighty casualties in England the Germans lost 141 killed or taken prisoner. A German aviator who has been taken prisoner states that Germany is- preparing for a giand air offensive by masses of machines, forestalling those being constructed in America. The German machines include a giant, biplane with four motors carrying bombs weighing three hundred kilogrammes. The Germans, ho says, had two thousand aeroplanes in July and are sparing no effort to increase the number.

CONSTERNATION IN GERMANY. Australian-New Zealand Cable Associatioa AMSTERDAM, Oct. 21. The. Zeppelin disaster caused widespread consternation in Germany. It is admitted that it demonstrates the failure of the Zeppelin as an offensive weapon. WHAT THE GERMANS CLAIM. LONDON, Oct. 22. A German official message states that the airship squadron on Friday night made a specially successful attack on London. Manchester, Birmingham, Nottingham, Derby, Lowestoft, Hull, Grimsby, Norwich, and Mappleton, returning owing to an adverse wind and dense mist. Four airships crossed tho French battle zone, where, according to the French, they were shot down or forced down. No details of the fate of those vessels or of the crews arc yet available. LOSS OF THE NEUTRAL CONVOY. INDEPENDENT ENQUIRY WANTED. Received October 23, 10.55 a.m. • ; LONDON. Oct. 22. In the House of Commons, Commander BeUairs demanded an 'independent enquiry into tho loss of the neutral convoy cabled on the 20th. He declared that the escort was obviously inadequate. . . Mr McNamara replied that the Government were not prepared for such an enquiry, but a naval enquiry would be arranged. SURVIVORS OF THE CONVOY. Australian-New Zealand Cable Association. CHRISTIANIA, Oct 21. One- hundred and nineteen men from the convoyed vessels have been landed in lifeboats on the Norwegian coast. This is considerably below half of the crews. THE SINKING~OF~THE ANTILLES. Australian-New Zealand Cable Auaooiation. WASHINGTON, Oct. 21. The Antilles incident will result in more extensive convoys being employed. The United States will spend one hundred millions on an ordinance depot and arsenal for the United States' troops in France.