TURKEY AT WAR

Taranaki Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 144664, 26 April 1915, Page 3

TURKEY AT WAR

SULTAN’S ASSAILANT HANGED. CAIRO, April 24. The Sultan’s assailant has been hanged. THE EMDEN’S MEN. LONDON, April 23. Turkish headquarters state that ■ Arabs attacked .the Ayesha’s crew, marching in the desert from Lidd to South ,Jeddah. They fought for three days. The Arabs wore driven off. The Germans'lost a lieutenant and two men killed and throe wounded. The latter arp in the hospital at Jeddah. The German official wireless already stated that the Turks reached Damascus before March 1. There was no mention of the attack. TURKEY TALKS OF PEACE. PARIS, April 25. The newspaper Temps states that Turkey has sounded Italy and America with a view to arranging separate peace with the Triple Entente. THE DARDANELLES. DECISIVE ACTION BEGUN., TROOPS BEING LANDED. ATHENS, April 24. • Unofficial reports state that a decisive action has been begun in the Dardanelles. The squadrons ’bombarded the Straits :at various points West of Gallipoli, a landing being effected at three noiate—Suvla, Enos and Bulair. , PARIS, April 25. Erendmayiatojcs-dropped, two.,i>onibs^

at Fort Kastro, Smyrna, tiffing and wounding several soldiers. They also bombed ’the railway station and-a" German ycsscl, which sank. The Salonika correspondent of the Echo de Paris stated that allied; -aeroplanes are frequently flying over Smyrna. Observers .estimate that there are 35,000 Turks there, half in trenches and half on the beighte over: leaking the' town. Thirty heavy guns from Constantinople have been placed on the new front. BOMBARDMENT RENEWED ("Received April 26, 10.5 a.m.). ATHENS, April 26. The. Allied ships' brought down two Turkish aeroplanes which were flying over Tenedos. The bombardment of the straits continues. BRITISH PRISONERS AT CONSTANTINOPLE. AMSTERDAM- April 24. The crow of the British submarine El 5, which went ashore and the crew of which were captured by the Turks, have reached Constantinople. •