Turkey

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXX, Issue 67, 14 November 1914, Page 5

Turkey

IN GERMAN HANDS. SERIOUS RIOTING IN CONSTANTINOPLE. United Press Association. (Received 9.10 a.m.) Copenhagen, November 13. . Serious rioting has occurred in Constantinople, there being widespread disagreement of the Government’s war policy. The Germans have taken command of the city. SMYRNA. London, November 12.

The Morning Post’s Athens correspondent states that the British colonists at Smyrna desired to leave, being doubtful of the assurances given to tho American Consul that the lives and property of foreigners would be protected. They were permitted to leave. Turkish cannon command tho heights, and it is believed that they will shell tho colony if the Allies attempt to take the city from the sea. (Smyrna, chief commercial centre of the Levant, papulation 250,000 (half Greek), one of the principal ports and trading places of the Ottoman Empire, at the head of the Gulf of Asia Minor). COEBEN DAMAGED IN THE RECENT BOMBARDMENT. Petrograd, November 18. A message from Constantinople states that the Gooben was seriously damaged by a shot which penetrated her at the waterline during the AngloFrench bombardment of the Dardanelles.

GENERAL. London, November 12. The Tress Bureau denies the Turkish headquarters’ statements that the Russians in Caucasia retreated, their second line of defence suffering greatly, and that the Turks have crossed the Egyptian frontier and occupied Schenizer and Fort Elarish, capturing four British guns'. The Bureau says that false information is being deliberately spread at Constantinople under German instructions. Berat,in Albania, has been pillaged, and anarchy reigns in the Valona region, which is a prey to civil war. The Governor was forced to haul down the Turkish flag. . Soldiers ha.ve been sent to restore; order.