TURKS IN DESPAIR.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume II, Issue 457, 28 July 1915, Page 10

TURKS IN DESPAIR.

AT THEIR WIT'S END. LACK OF FUEL AND AMMUNITION. INCREASINGLY BITTER FEELING AGAINST GERMANY. V I By Cable. — Press Association—Copyright (Received July 27, 12.20 p.m.) COPENHAGEN, July 2 V An employee of a salvage company .who has just returned from Constantinople, where the company is repairing -warships, states that the Turks are at their wits' end for fuel and ammunition. AH the old warships have been stripped of their useful metals, and a house-to-house search has been instituted for the .same purpose. Turkish feeling against the Germans is becoming increasingly bitter. There was a big fight at the Constantinople infantry barracks a fortnight ago.Jn winch 10 Germans were killed and 14 wounded. , The attitude of the population is dangerously hostile, and they'will undoubtedly rise against the Germans on the first opportunity. The authorities are, consequently, confiscating arms wholesale. Gunners from the Dardanelles forts state that only a limited number of shells is allowed to each gun daily. FIVE FIERCE ATTACKS. ITALIANS' BRILLIANT VICTOEY. COMPLETE CONTROL OF LOWER ISONZO. • _' (Received July 28, 2 p.m.) ROME, July 2) The Italians are now masters of the Lower Isouzo, and hold all the dominating points on the Western Carso, from where the Austrians were able to shell the crossings. A brilliant engagement resulted in the capture of the 400 feet high hill, Monte de-Seiliuse. The Bersaglieri four times reached the top, and four times they worn repulsed with heavy loss, but they kept up the attack. By night the battlefield was illuminated by bombs charged with magnesium, which burst in the air, dropping lights like falling stars. The fifth assault was made at dawn, and was successful, the Austrians being exhausted. The Italians captured 2000 Alpine troops, cutting oft' the retreat of a whole Austrian regiment. RUSSIANS PUSHED BACK VARIOUS COUNTER-ATTACKS DEFEATED. GERMANS CLAIM SERIES OF SUCCESSES. (Received July 28, 2 p.m.) AMSTERDAM, July 27. A German official statement says:— We repulsed a Russian attack from' Mitau. We closely followed, re-taking the enemy positions between Paswol, south of Mitau, and the Niemen. Russian attempts to push troops advancing across the Narew, by a simultaneous attack from the line of Goworow-Wyszekow-Serock, completely failed. We captured 3319 men and 13 machine guns. Our troops to the east and south-east of Rojany pushed back and defeated the enemy. The situation at Warsaw at Novogeorgievsk is unchanged. We have occupied villages to the north of Grubieszow, capturing . 3941 men. Otherwise General von Mackensen's operations are unchanged.

STRUGGLE IN THE EAST. ALLIES' AVIATORS IN TROUBLE. GERMANS ADMIT LOSS OF TRENCHES. (Received July 28, 2 p.m.) AMSTERDAM,. July 27. A German official statement says: We compelled a French acropjane to descend to the north-west of Turcoing, and we captured a British aeroplane and aviators near Geronne. The enemy captured our advanced trenches at Lingekopf. INTERNING THE ALIENS. PROCEEDINGS IN BRITAIN. (Received July 28, 12.30 p.m.) LONDON, July 27. Iti the House of Commons Sir Rufus Simon announced that the Internment Committee had practically concluded its work of 14,000 applications for exemption, 0092 were granted, 732 refused, and 7000 had not been determined. The internment since May 13 totalled 0325, repatriations 6302. There was an average of 1000 internments weekly " during August. The committee is favouring Austrian applications, in view of the leniency to the British in Austria, in contrast to Germany. RAID ON TRAWLERS. THE BRUTAL HUNS. RUTHLESS SUBMARINE MURDER. LONDON, July 27. A submarine raided the Faroe fish-

ing bank, and shelled the trawlers without warning. The crew jeered at the fishermen, shouting, "We have nice little torpedoes for Churchill and Grey." It is already known that nine trawlers were sunk. The crews w r ere landed aboard other trawlers after 45 hours in the boats in the open sea. The fate of other trawlers is unknown. IN BRITAIN. NERVE-SHAKEN SOLDIERS. SPECIAL TREATMENT PROVIDED (deceived July 28, 0 a.m.) LONDON, July 27. In the Mouse of Lords, Lord Newton, interrogated in regard to the hospital treatment of nerve-shaken soldiers, niedical.lv diagnosed as "uncertiliable," stated that the War Office had no intention whatever of treating these unfortunate men as ordinary lunatics. Lord Knutsford said that the arrangements made for these afllicted soldiers were particularly good. FEEDING THE ARMY. MUTTON OR BEEF? (Received July 28, 2.35 p.m.) LONDON, July 27. In the House of Commons, Mr Butcher asked whether, in view of the amount imported from Australia, it was possible to issue mutton, in lieu of beef;, more frequently to the troops. Mr Arnold Forster stated that mutton was issued twice per week, and a more frequent issue was not popular with the troops, but the matter was being considered.

COLONEL IN TROUBLE. WEST END GAMBLING HOUSE. COURT MARTIAL PROCEEDING. (Picceivcd Jnlv 28, 3.10 p.m.) LONDON, July 27. Before a court martial Lieut. Col. Charles Prior, commanding the transport depot at Deptford, was charged with being guilty of unmilitary conduct in inviting his inferior otlicers to a gambling house in the West End where all the officers lost, at Chemin-de-Fer, to an unknown American. One oflieer gave evidence that he refused to pay, suspecting cardsharping. Me staled that Prior informed him IN , 'ie had received £25 1 .. taking his colleagues. Prior denied this and expressed regret at his forgetting the regulations regarding gambling. The case was continued in camera. j PRIVATE G. YEOMAN. It was pointed out in The Sun of July 21 that, although Private George Yeoman, whose parents live in Stanmore Road, Christehurcf v was reported to have been wounde! early in the lighting at the Dardanelles, to liave been seriously ill on May 30, and to have died on July 8, a soldier who occupied a bed in the hospital next to that occupied by Private Yeoman, and who returned to New Zealand by the Willochra, had staled that al no time was Yeoman seriously ill, and that he was practically well on June 8. Repeated enquiries by Private Yeoman's relatives failed to elicit any definite information as to where, and of what, Private Yeoman hud died-r These facts were brought to the notice of Mr G. W. Russell, M.P., who saw the Minister of Defence on the matter. In consequence of that, the Hon. J. Allen v cabled to Cairo for more definite information. Yesterday, Mr Allen received, by mail, an official list, dated June 12, in which it was stated that Private Yeoman was then ii\ hospital, that he had been operated on for an aneurism, and that he was getting better. After receiving that list, Mr Allen received a cablegram, which read: —"Died of wounds, July 8 (gunshot wound, femoral), 0/811, Yeoman." It would appear from this that Private Yeoman had recovered from his wound, gone into the tiring line again, and there met bis death. But this docs not clear up the mystery, for Private Yeoman's relatives had been informed that when he was in hospital early in June he was suffering from a wound in the thigh.

A letter was received from the soldier dated May 31, staling he was in hospital, and recovering .from the wound . and the subsequent operation, and his friends are of the opinion that if he was in hospital at the end of AlaS" he would not be well enough to go back to the front by June 8. A letter received this morning from the Church of England chaplain, the Rev. G. 11. Gavin, dated June 17, states that Private Yeoman was doing well, and having every attention. The parents of the wounded soldier still have hope that he is alive, and are waiting for the

next list of wounded returning to New it was reported that Private Yeoman was returning with the next batch. He had stated in a letter in May that he expected to go to England to convalesce. There has been some neglect in the matter of sending news home to his parents, as they never heard from oilicial quarters what hospital he was in. PRIVATE H. W. HENDERSON. Information was received in Ashburton yesterday that Private Herbert William Henderson, son of Mr J. Henderson, of Alford Forest Road, Ashburton, had (lied from enteric fever. Private Henderson was 2! years old, and was a carpenter. He went to the Front with the Third Reinforcements. He was reported to have been wounded on or about June 1, but no information was received regarding his injuries, beyond that he was progressing favourably. Private Henderson was a Good Templar, and was also a member of the Southern Cross Rugby Football' Club.