"TO THE END."

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 290, 27 September 1915, Page 5

"TO THE END."

TURKEY TO CONTINUE STRUGGT.rI FARID BEY’S NOTE OF DEFIANCE. j Farid Bey( tlie chief of the Independent Uational aPrty in Egypt, whose European headquarters are atGencva, returned here (Geneva) today (July 3), after visiting Berlin, Vienna, and Constantinople during tho past six weeks (writes a special correspondent of an English In these capitals he met many diplomats and business men, and he has veyed their opinion and his own on the war in an interview with the Geneva correspondent of the American Associated Press.

I think the war will be a long one, he said. “Another year at least wilj pass before peace is made.

There is no truth in the daily recurring rumour that Turkey will make or desires a separate peace. We shall fight side by side with our allies until the end. There is just as little truth in the report that Turkey has abandoned her campaign against Egypt. What we require is a railway for the transport of troops near the Egyptian frontier, a‘nd aetesian wells in the desert. Both are being built. “In October the Turks will be ready to start a new offensive against Egypt. The Turks by then will be able to put at Jeast a miliono and a quarter in the: Gallipoli Peninsula, which is strongly entrenched, and which the English and French will never take except with great sacrifices in ships and men.”

Speaking ’of “our Sultan” Abbas* (>.ko is living in a Vienna hotel ami who has two sons being educated in cGneva), Farid Bey said, he would always be the real legal ruler of Egypt., J< Ve do not recognise, the new Khedive, and we shall continue our efforts to make our country independent. If. will be, perhaps, a long affair, but I hope we shall win in the end.”

Farid Bey said, in conclusion, that the report that Adrianople was evacuated by the Turks was not correct, and arose from the fact that the Turks were strengthening the Tchataldja defences (west of Constantinople) in the event of an attack by another Power.