Turkey

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 18, 22 January 1915, Page 5

Turkey

OUR BOYS IN EGYPT. United Pbess (Association. London, January 21. Renter's Cairo correspondent writes that the training of Australiaas and New Zealanders is proceeding .satisfactorily. The officers report '.hat the men are making good progress. Hie men congratulate themselves on their fine training ground and the good weather. There are few cases 'f serious sickness, but a few deaths have occurred from pneumonia.

The New Zealand Contingent has ordered forty motor ambulances in England to lie ready when they go to the front. The men are anxiously awaiting Turkish attack, :>ut the latest news gives little hope of its eventuating.

TROOPS AT BEERSHEBA.

Cairo, January 21

Refugees from Pale nine report a steady concentration of Turkish troops in the Beersheba region, forty miles from the frontier, and 150 miles from the Suez Canal, with 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 occupied Mount Carmel Convent. ENVER PASHA'S PLANS. London, January 21. A correspondent writes that it ib considered in Petrograd that Knver Pasha's ambitious plans in the Caucasus completely failed. Hhe maximum force the enemy is now able to assemble in the Armenian theatre cannot exceed 80,000 men, and the sole course remaining to the Turks is to shut themselves in Erzeroum, and there die a valiant death, since it is impossible for them to expect help from any quarter.

TURKS MUTINY AT EZEROUM. 200,000 WANTED FOR THE EGYPTIAN PROBLEM. PASHA PELTED BY POPULACE. Timh and Stdnbt Suk Snvion. (Received 8.0 a.m.) London, January 21. Tho Turks at Erzeroum are mutinying owing to the famine, and several scores were hanged under direction from tho German commandant. The German officers want 200,000 Turks before they will feel strong enough to tackle Egypt. The feat of defeat and the question cf provisions are the greatest obstacles. A pasha, for sympathising with the Allies, was, conducted through the streets of Damascus' clad "in penitential garments and wearing a placard inscribed "Traitor!" He was pelted by the populace.