TURKEY PARTICIPATES.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XL, Issue 12430, 22 January 1915, Page 5

TURKEY PARTICIPATES.

CONCENTRATING AT. BEERSHEBA. Received January 22, at 1.20 i>.m. Cairo, January 21. Refugees from Palestine report tliat there is a steady concentration of Tiij-kisll troops in tiie Beersheba region, miles from the frontier and 150 miles from the Suez Canal. There arc many German officers who are much less confident of success than the Turks. -Many cases of ill-treatment of Zionist Jews are reported. The Turks have occupied Mount Carniel Convent. Petrograd. January 21. Official:—"Remnants of the Turkish rearguard are precipitately retreating. We have occupied Ardamitsch." Received January 22, at 9 a.m. London, January 21. Router's Cairo correspondent states that the- German officers in Syria are pessimistic. Tin-Key is refusing reinforcements of trained men, but is ordering an advance at all costs without delay. London, January 20. A correspondent from Petrograd considers that Enver Pasha's ambitions and plans in the Caucasus have completely failed. The maximum force the enemy is now able to assemble in the Armenian theatre cannot exceed 80,000 men. The .sole course for the remaining Turks is to shut themselves in Erzerotim and there die a valiant death, since it is impossible to expect help from any quarter.

ROUMANIA ANXIOUS. DUAL ALLIANCE IN FORCE. Received January 22, at 6.50 p.m. Bucharest, January 21. There is serious anxiety regarding Austria's new :concentration against Servia. Neither the Croatian nor Czech troops are employed. The . Austro perman force, finder General von Eugen,. will number 400,000. Other troops are gathering to oppose the Russians at Bukovina.

OUR TROOPS IN EGYPT. ANXIOUSLY AWAITING THE TURKS. ' London, January 21. Renter's Cairo correspondent' says the training of the Australians and New Zealanders is proceeding" satisfactorily. The officers report that the men are making good progress. The men congratulate themselves on the fine training ground and good weather. There have been a few cases or serious sickness and a few deaths from pneumonia. The New Zealand contingent has ordered 40 motor ambulances from England to be ready when they go to the front. ~ Die men are anxiously awaiting the Turkish attack, but the latest news gives little hope of that eventuating. IMPULSE TO RECRUITING. Received January 22, at 11.45 a.m. London, January 21. The airship raid resulted in a large impulse to recruiting in London.

THE CENSOR. AUSTRALIAN PRESS PROTEST. Received January 22,. at 8.15 a.m. 'Sydney, January 22. Tiie Herald in a. leactar on the censor, after disclaiming any .intention of attacking Mr Pearce- or aisy of his staff, the administration and- points out that the need is to get the Government and the public into closer touch through the press, so that the Australian aid to the Mother Country may be as full and free as possible. . The duty of the press is clear. It does not stand for irresponsible newsmongering, but unfortunately many persons insist that it does so stand, and when clothed with authority they act towards the newspapers as if the latter were mis-chief-makers. The press during the war lias shown a deep and profound,/ searching responsibility. It.lias cheerfully accepted the restrictions necessary and right in. dealing with the position. In l Australia there is a. disposition to treat the public as a child, and the press as its plaything. We g«t cables censored by London and again censored bv Australia as if the fountain authority of war was here, not there. New Zealand, an island, publishes matter without fear which is unavailable here. The censors in the Australian continent have been busy and the focus of their own views has "grown reciprocally narrow. ■ War news is available in Melbourne which the Sydney papers are not given the opportunity to use. The Herald demands consistency and especially the public's right to judge between bad and good news. It concludes: "The public lias done its duty by going about its business, refraining from panic and responding to the call for men to fight, but it must be treated as of adult stature, and the press, as its watch-tower and bulwark, cannot be ignored or suppressed except at a risk which no Government in its senses will dare to take." INSURING A GERMAN VESSEL. UNITED STATES MINISTER' INVITES TROUBLE. - Washington, January 21. Despite the British, protest, Mr M'Adoo has agreed to issue insurance on the Dacia's cargo, which will proceed to Bremen and risk capture. THE AUSTRIAN EMPEROR. HIS POPULARITY GONE. London, January 20. The Austrian Emperor when driving i'll the streets of Vienna arouses 110 cheers Or signs, of affection. His carriage passes in complete silence.