HARASSED TURKEY.

Gisborne Times, Volume XLV, Issue 4000, 5 August 1915, Page 5

HARASSED TURKEY.

REPOBTEO SPLIT WITH THE GERMANS. A ’SIGNIFICANT DINNER PARTY. ' IMPORTANT DECISION ARRIVED AT. (Received August <►, to.lo p.m.) MITYLENE, Aug. 4. Advices tiom Ccnstantinoplc state that Enver Pasha gave a political dinner, the guests including the J Grand Vizier, Tevt-fik Pasha, and Marsha! Fuad, the latter an out-and-out advocate of peace. St is understood that an hr.peria.iit decision was taken, unfavorable to the Germans, nano of ivhc.n ivere invited. Dissentions between Enver Pasha and General Von Sandes continue. RUSSIAN AVIATOR’S FEAT.

BOMBS DRUBBED ON UUNST.ANTINOBLE. ANATOLIAN Cf'AL YARDd AGAIN RAIDED'. (R'-Cived Aug. o. I.',') U.rn.i BETROGRAD, .tug. I. Russian aviators it'd over (’onsl-an-ciiiople, bombing the harbor .works. Oilicia! : Our torpeilnor.i raitk d the j entire, Anatolian coast- and <!<•'•! roved ; 1.50 sailing .skips ami four naval • yards. J OUR BOYS LATEST AG TIOM j REPORT BY SIR TAN HAMILTON, j LONDON. August 3. j Sir Tan Hamilton reports : —A t- j tacks from Turkish trenches threaten- i mg our safety wo advanced to a post. | known as Tasmania. Post and bayou- i oted 70 Turks. Wo gained the ere.-d ; of tho ridge and materially improved ; our position. The advance was the result of a sue- ; cess fill attack by the Australian and j New Zealand Corps, occupying the j right, against a network of [reneho.s ! threatening tho safety of the advene- ; or! post called Tasmania Rost. j There, was a bombardment of see- ! lions of Turkish (roiir-hes and tlie ex- ! plosion of three mines under them. | Those were occupied immediately, and another see.ion was rudicd iviih I bayonets. CF.RMAN SPY’S RUSE. I OFiHC'iiRS DECOYED AWAY. ' I (Times and Sydnev ,g;iu Services.) ! LONIiGX. August 3. j A correspondent at the Dardanelles ; writes: A Gorman spy, speaking perfect English, summoned Captain Mat- i Donald and Lieutenant iilsoii to a , reader'.'.oils with Colonel Rope on the j slope of a hill. Not suspecting ihe ; officers arrived first anti foil into Unhands. of a band of Turks. Seeing their colonel coming they shouted a . warning. Without hesitation Colonel ; Rope jumped thirty feet and landed ; an a patch of soft sand as a show -r of bullets swept tin.* place whore I'"' j had steed. lie escaped unhur!. j ByLGA Fi 3A 5 8 TUHK lS H Eii » • TENTS. j EiNANCi Af, AJ* RA NG KM ENTS ! WITH GERMANY. ! WARNING BY GREEN RRE>S. | (R.. . cived Aug. 4. 1ij.40 p.tu.) .LONDON, Aug. 4. I Rcutci’s Athens (••on-espoodeii t say- ; la- Greek nov,.without <!is•iiietion of j-arty, commenting up."-" | he Turco-Bulgarian Entente, say that 1 u the event of Bulgaria attacking ' ievvia, Greece would Drove that the . 1 .maty between Greece and Seme, is lot a vain word. Greece would con- , ; idcr it an obligation and an honor ! • u aid bervia iuuncdiately. A wireless message from Uf imt ; .tares that the G.eun.u Bark ot i ..'oaliUon bus secured an option , :00,000,00u francs' of the Bulgarian j •into i.oa.’i. Tlie coalition also assur- j d fiic right of ootion until August, j U! 7. of a further 250.000,000 francs j uni the right ol railway and harbor j oti.'.tnrTibn in Bulgaria. j “THE LUSJTANSA.” j, POPULAR GERMAN SONG. \\ PINK EXAMPLE OF BRUT Af, | j CALLOUSNESS. • ; I ■ ('Times and tSvdncy Sun Serv ices..) j ('Received Aug.'4, 8.10 p.m.) I , LONDON. Aug. L j] ‘•Lusitiitiia’’ is a song popubx in ( rcniuniy. where it is sung in cute.-, nusic halls, and theatres. ... f Tim following two verses indicate ho brutal callousness of the whole { •erse: — l The boat’s aim was good; _ ! Who doesn’t chiiko drowns in the tiood. \'andu'bilt was there that day— 1 The only one wc missed was Grey. j 'There lav the dead in N ptune’s 1 jevvs, 1 Most of them with scalded pawn; England’s sons with their waves 1 Wore ne’er so still in all their lives. < t : RENCH AERIAL ACTIVITY i STRANBURG BOMBED. • ’ a PARIS, August 3. s 'lh.- Havas Agency reports that a A off 11a of Anglo-French aeroplanes ew over Strasburg and dropped 25 j onihs. Tho extent of tho damage one was not learned. THE RUSSIAN ROLL, ENORMOUS GERMAN LOSSES. *• MILAN, August 3. [ Nows from an authoritative German ource states that the German losses ~ n the, Russian front from May 1 to I f lily 1 totalled 270,000. - Ii VICTORIA RACING CLUB. I U PROFITS FOR PATRIOTIC BURROSES. j d.JIB’S FUNDS FOR WAR LOAN. (Received August 5, 1.15. a.m.) .- AIJ'ILBOITRNE, Aug. 4._ Afc the a'inual meeting of the Yicntian Racing Club the chairman statd that the policy would be to keep XpQa-scs down to tlie minimum. It jj as proposed to invest as much of the Ink’s funds as tlie Committee j, bought wise in the. Federal War ioan, believing this was a national ~ atriotic duty. », Notwithstanding a large decrease i the profits from last Cun meeting, be year’s surplus was G 12,000. Alsad'v £14,500 has been deyotod to the -fir funds and it was decided to give , lie whole of the annual profits for atriotic purposes.