THE SINKING SHIP.

Otago Witness, Issue 3201, 21 July 1915, Page 33

THE SINKING SHIP.

LONDON, July If. The Daily Chronicle’s Turin correspondent states that the German military attache has quitted Constantinople, and the archives of the Embassy have also been removed. II Seccolo slates that an impression exists that the collapse of the TurkoGerman defence of the Dardanelles is not far off. MfTYLENE, July 14. The Germans are erecting and strengthening the fortifications at Constantinople on a stupendous scale. On the sea front trenches have been dug at half-mile intervals from San Stefane to Silivri —a distance of about 30 miles—with concealed batteries of guns of all sizes. NO GAS USED. LONDON, July 13. The War Office announces that the statement contained in a Turkish communique to the effect that the Allies at the Dardanelles used gas against the enemy is false, as they have not resorted to this method of warfare. SUGGESTED SEPARATE PEACE. SOFIA, July 13. The Bucharest, newspapers are giving prominence to the visit of the Turkish Minister of Justice to Switzerland to open negotiations with the Allies with a view to a separate peace. Enver Pasha’s ordering the recent offensive, which resulted in defeat and heavy losses, has caused strained relations between the Turks and Germans. The latter were strongly against the attack. TURKEY’S RESOURCES EXHAUSTED. LONDON, July 13. The Italian Consuls at Jerusalem, Aleppo, and Beirut have arrived at Naples. They declare that Turkey is exhausted, and that the Arab element has completely separated its cause from that of the Ottoman. The Turkish resistance at the Dardanelles will, however, continue, for that is where the best of the forces of the Ottoman Empire are being expended.