THE ORIENT.

Taranaki Daily News, 8 September 1915, Page 5

THE ORIENT.

CONSTANTINOPLE'S PLIGHT. FAMINE BREAKING OUT. Received Sept. 7, 10 p.m. Mitylene, Sept. 7. Advices from Constantinople state that the speedy arrival of the Germans is the only hope of the Young Turks. The flour mills arc idle, and there is a lack of coal. Bread is often unprocurable, and free fights round, the bakeries are of daily occurrence. The streets and houses are in darkness, owing to there being no gas and no petroleum. Twenty-five thousand additional wounded from Gallipoli arrived last week. The reinforcements from Asia Minor are in a miserable condition, Many of them are half naked, and are either elderly men or raw lads. A GALLANT CHAPLAIN. KILLED IN A TRENCH. THE BOND OF BROTHERHOOD. Received Sept. 7, 9.40 p.m. Sydney, Sept. 7. Captain Bean, in a message dated August, 30, says that during the fight on August 28, a New Zealand chaplain went down a trench in the interior of a redoubt searching for a wounded New Zealander. The trench was full of wounded Turks, whose wounds he dressed. Presently voices were heard down the trench, and the chaplain's companion said, "I think there must be Turks in the trench." The chaplain answered: "Well, we will go a little further, and see if wo'can reach him." The chaplain crept forward to a bend in the trench, when suddenly there was a report and the chaplain fell forward. A rattle of rifle shots then broke out, making it impossible to reach him. Captain Bean adds:—"lf Australia and New Zealand are not drawn closer together by the way their boys are fighting and dying side by side, in the same charges, and in the same trenches, there must be something rotten in the state of Denmark."