THE NEAR EAST

Otago Daily Times, Issue 17155, 7 November 1917, Page 5

THE NEAR EAST

RUSSIANS AGAIN ACTIVE. SUCCESS IN THE CAUCASUS. Admiralty, per Wirelees Press. LONDON, November 5. Russian official: There is violent enemy artillery fire westward of Sventen Lake. We attacked the Turks in the Talkit sector, on the Black Sea, capturing the first line of Turkish trenches, and in some places the third line. We also took great M. VENIZELOS'S INTENTIONS. ITALIAN REVERSE CAUSES UNEASINESS. Auitralian and N.Z. Cable Association. WASHINGTON, November 5. Official cables received by the State Department report that M. Yenizelos is at Rome. He savs that ho will visit the other allied capitals before calling a general mobilisation of the Greeks, as he wishes to be assured of full allied co-operation and an agreement to furnish Greece with supplies. The message adds that the Allies are co-operating in order to thwart Germany's endeavours to make a separate peace with her Balkan enemies. The United States State Department that the tremendous Teuton drive in Italy has created some unrest among certain of the allied Powers as to the Near East.

GERMAN OFFICIAL REPORT. Admiralty, per Wireless Press. LONDON, November 5. German official: English battalions attacking southward of Stojakovo, between the Vardar River and Lake Doiran, collapsed with heavy losses. FIGHTING IN PALESTINE. ANOTHER WELL CAPTURED. AVIATORS VERY ACTIVE. Renters Telegrams. LONDON, November 5. (Received Nov. 6, at 7.10 p.m.) Reuter's correspondent at headquarters in Palestine reports: To-day counter-at-tacks on our new positions on the west flank were repulsed with heavy loss. We are now bombarding strong points on this part of the enemy's second line. Our captures since the beginning of the offensive are 207 officers and 2400 men. Our aviators are very active. Naval planes bombed enemy railway communications, stores, and the bridge at Wiljulie, 15 miles north of Jaffa, with good effect. Our airmen also bombed the station and stores at Tel Sheria, on the Beersheba railway. Another well has been captured northeast of Beersheba. All of our men are splendidly fit and keen in spite of the great heat and dust. CONSTANTINE'S BASE TREACHERY. DESPATCHES TO THE KAISER. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. LONDON, November 6. (Received Nov. 6, at 11.20 p.m.) The Daily Chronicle's Athens correspondent says: A lurid light is thrown on Constantine's and his wife's activities by the publication of 49 deciphered despatches between the ex-King and Queen and the Kaiser through M. Theotokis, Greek Minister in Berlin. The correspondence began in December, 1915. It relates to a German 40 million franc loan to Greece, and King Constantine's suggestion that Germany attack General Sarrail's army, a proposal of which M. Skouloudis, then Premier, was aware. The plan failed, owing to von Hindenburg's veto. Moat of the despatches emanated from the Queen, whose role in connection with the formation of bands in the neutral zone arouses the keenest indignation.

BRITISH OFFICIAL REPORT. TANKS EMPLOYED. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association and Rput-pr LONDON, November 6. (Rceived Nov. 7, at. 0.50 a.m.) Egypt official: The Gaza operations continue. We are in contact with the enemy northward of Beersheba. The prisoners taken in' these operations now total 207 officers and 2429 men. . Tanks participated in the attack of November 1.