TURKEY'S TERRIBLE EXTREMITY.

North Otago Times, Volume CIV, Issue 13772, 8 January 1917, Page 6

TURKEY'S TERRIBLE EXTREMITY.

, DIRE EFFECTS OF PARTICIPATION IN WAR, ) (Australian una New Zealand Cable Association and Renter). . '' ' BERNE, January 5. A neutral who has lived several years at Constantinople gives details of the conditions in the Turkish capital. He says the people arc eating broad smelling of petroleum, made of wheat abandoned by the troops at Gallipoli, which was drenched with petroleum in the -hope that .it would be rendered useless. Sugar costs 13s a kilogramme, coffee 14s, and petroleum 80s for two and a-half gallons. The Bosphorus fisheries "have had to be abandoned owing to mines. The Russian fleet periodically bbm- ■ hards the,coaling stations; and has practically blockaded the ' Bosphorus since the capture of .Trebwond. Of 250 merchant vessels at the Golden Horn at the beginning of the war, all except six have been sunk by the Russians in the Black Sea, ] or British or French submarines in the Sea of Marmora-