PORTE CONFIDENT
STILL HOPEFUL OF EUROPEAN COMPLICATIONS. (Received February 24, 11.50 p.m.) CONSTANTINOPLE, February 24. The Government is confident that the 'Turks can hold Chatakieja and linlair indefinitely. They are still hopeful of European complications or of the exhaustion of the Allies by delay. It is believed here that Adrianople will be able to withstand tho siege till the end of March. , Other accounts state that Scutari has telegraphed that it will bo difficult to prolong warfare beyond seven days. The main body of the Turks has been compelled to remain in the entrenchments at Chataldeja owing to floods.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 8363, 25 February 1913, Page 8
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99PORTE CONFIDENT New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 8363, 25 February 1913, Page 8
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