TURKISH ATTACKS REPULSED.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XL, Issue 11405, 23 October 1915, Page 5

TURKISH ATTACKS REPULSED.

The enormously greater energy which is being put into recruiting i Britain is sending the cowards in shoals to the emigration agencies I th t Vhope of getting away from the possibilities of*, being coerced or es=etl into the ranks, Canada has vast empty spaces, but has no room , that kind of trash. Lord Derby’s personal appeal to every man of ditary age is likely to cause a great deal of searching of hearts, hig rt small. The Italians appear to have been dawdling in their part of the war •ently. hut have now made a great offensive movement in the hope of sim- Austrian pressure on Servia. The Servians are at present being tmnnbered by two to one, hut that one is a terror. The Germans imoc withhold their admiration of them as lighters, althougn the il is becoming littered with German dead. There is no doubt, howi»r, that aid is needed and that very quickly

The aid of Greece is likely td be bought, though at a very high .ce, A larger coast line on the iEgean Sea and colonies in Asia Minor ve now been lumped with Cyprus as n lari be. Britain has one advance over Germany in this contest of offers. In respect to Cyprus, at ist. it can deliver tho goods at once, while the Germans are still ipty-hauded. Italy seems to be offended at Greece being courted so histriously. and suggests that as we have it in the hollow of our mis we shoitld crush it.

At Gallipoli there has been some fighting, nut it seems to have been rely defensive on our part. Our troops there are outnumbered, and n Sauciers, the German in command of the Turks, is quite certain it lie can hold onr men to their present position. In this connec--11 an officer now in Australia tells of a three-hlacled dagger with ich our troops have been armed for upper cut. back hand and straight ve, It seems to be a very handy tool for anyone who can do a :le boxing.

The officer also makes the very welcome announcement that in the )p!y of high explosives, etc., we may well be the subject of. envy- by ■others, but that Britain has some surprises in that line up her sleeve it will make the Germans jump.

Most terrific fighting is going on in Russia. The Germans are uliug their energies now to the capture of Riga. In the present conion of wobble on the part of Greece and the uncertainty of the Rounian attitude they are probably endeavouring to gain another specular success in order to impress the two undecided ones. There is a nour that Greece has rejected our offer of Cyprus as an inducement take part in the war, but we are of opinion that the rejection does refer to the new conditions which were offered later.