EGYPT AND THE TURKS

New Zealand Times, Volume XL, Issue 8945, 19 January 1915, Page 5

EGYPT AND THE TURKS

Sergeant-Major Hands, of the Gordon Highlanders, tolls a thrilling story of the Gordons when they were ordered to storm a trench. The men dropped in heaps, but still carried on the bloody struggle. Fifty-five per cent, of them fell, and they were obliged to retreat; but, as Sir John French says: “Tho Gordons have made history.” Tho President of the French Chamber of Deputies, M. Paul Deschenal, states that the Triple Entente has not yet put forth its full efforts; but the decisive moments have not yet arrived. On the other hand, the Dual Alliance has already put forth its full strength. A Paris communique shows that the Allies progressed in the Lombaertzydo district, that tho advance in the Beausejour district was continued, and that progress was . also made westward of Orbey. An Amsterdam message shows that the remainder of tho Ostend population is in a state of severe privation. “The Times” supplies particulars of the torture of the Belgian clergy in August. Refugees from Soissons declare that tho Germans, in their bombardment of the town, spared neither ambulances nor hospitals, while seventy-five big shells struck the Cathedral. A German version of the Soissons battle is published this morning. The Kaiser decorated tho German commander on the field for achieving this “glorious victory”—the smashing of ambulances, hospitals, and the Cathedral., The Kaiser, in a tearful and prayerful mood, referring to his birthday, actually alludes to tho “days of tribulation which have overtaken the Fatherland.” The Russians continue their successful advance against tho Prussians on tho right bank of the Vistula. On the left bank there has been soma heavy fighting, the Germans capturing a trench or trenches. In other districts the enemy was repulsed. Russian advance guards stormed and captured Kirlibaba Pass, in tho Carpathians, bordering on’ Transylvania. The'Greek Minister in London declared that Greece was not only in sympathy with, but absolutely devoted to, the cause of England in the great world-crisis.