TURKEY MORE CONFIDENT.

Gisborne Times, Volume XLV, Issue 4009, 16 August 1915, Page 5

TURKEY MORE CONFIDENT.

PEOPLE HEARTENED AY GERMAII SUCCESSES.

ATTEMPT TO RESUSCITATE THE HOLY' WAR.

YOUNG TURKS AGAiH W HIGH FAVOR,

BRITOB SUBMARINES’ ACTIVITY.

VERITABLE FiESQSi 8F TERM!! CREATED. ,

AMERICAN CORRESPONDENT’S ENTERTAINING STORY

(United Press Association. —Copyright.) (Times and Sydney Sun Services. (Received August LA. 7.40 p.m.) LON DU A. August 14:. The German successes in the YV arsavv district are being exploited to the fullest extent in the Turkish press and this has momentarily repopularised the Young Turks. The Government publicly announce from the Mosques that Germany is preparing to scud ail army to tight with the Turks. The Sublime Porte lias assumed an intransient attitude toward Bulgaria, whom it' previously sought to placate. Active steps are being taken to resuscitate the “Holy War. and messengers have been despatched to Islamic countries, especially Eg-, op Abyssinia.. Tripoli and Tunis, announcing German succes' "*s everywhere and that Turkey will shortly resume the campai; i against Egypt. Lhe Sultan in a special rescript lias made public drunkenues . the subject of the severest court-martial penalty. All foreigners in Turkey have been ordered to wear the fez. ■The ostensible reason is to preserve them from illtreatment and i a suit by-the natives. Djavid Bey, a former Turkish Finance Minister, is visiting Vienna and .Berlin. It is believed that his object is to explain tli * * preoariousn ess of the Turkish financial situation, demanding immediate advances. Mr Henry. Wood, the American United Press correspondent iis Turkey, states that a veritable reign of terror has been created in the simple minds of the Turkish peasants and them village population of the Marmora district by the British submarines’ activity. A steamer in wMfch Mr W ood travelled on the Sea of Marmora had its lifebelts swung out and hundreds of life preservers ready. She crept in along the Marmora coast the whole way. On a second occasion the captain took .courage and headed directly for Constantinople, The boat was crowded with peasants and provincial Government officers, all trembling with fear. When half-way to Constantinople, there was a loud shout from the bridge and the captain bellowed orders and the boat turned tail and headed for the shore. There was a wild scurry for the lifeboats and it was then discovered that the supposed submarine was only a porpoise. Turkish transports carrying wounded are more confident under the Bed Cross flag than under the Bed Crescent, frequently fly in n the lied Cross until reaching into the Bosphorus, when the Crescent is substituted, because it is unseemly to allow the population to think the wounded soldiers owe their salvation at the hand of the Cross rather than the Crescent.

THE ALLIES' OPEBATION3. . FUKTPIm PRO* iIIKSS IIEPt »iiTEI). OFFICIAL FRENCH REPORT. <1 OILMANS ATTEMPT TO DISCOUNT NEW ZEALAND LANDING. (Received August 15, 4.50 p.m.) PARIS. Au, gust .15. A Dardanelles official me, -sage .staler-! that since August 6 the British successfully landed in ih- region of Suvla Bay and have made Luther : rog l 'at On ha Term, where, after yio.ent fighting- they gained a footing on. the slopes of Sari Bahr. taking over GfiO prisoners and nine machineguns. . . Operations continue to develop at this point. Turkish efforts to break our line in the son! It failed. Since August 7 the operations on the Trench front have been principally artillery duels, to our advantage. The Minister for Marine issues an official message stati rig: n n -he ]2th, after giving the Turkish Governor adequate notice, ic. enable the neighborhood to be evacuated, a French cruiser bombed and destroyed a German factory at Jaffa, where mini toons ami boats were being turned out, destined for an attack on the ouez messag , e U4Jtiles the recent landings of ihe Trench and British troops at Gallipoli. It mentions that [SOO troops were landed at Suvia Bay and attempted fo onfdunk •the Turkish position at Ari Burma. but were repulsed. Telegrams from Athens state that the Prince of lloheniohe, oil arrivalat Constantinople, expressed dissatisfaction at tne disorders in the interior of TuVxey and announced his intention in si Me Berlin to send German officials to. take over the arhuims--1 raVion ~ - The proposal excites great uneasiness and the idea of a separate peace is gaining ground. R • , ~ Th'ere are now 120,000 Dardanelles wounded in (oust an till old e.

TOUICS CAUGHT NAPPIMO, TWO LITTLE RA IDS. N EW ZEALANDERS’ SPLENDID SUCCESS. TURKISH {/HSERVATION POST CAPTURED. f Received August 10. I p.m. > ■ SYDNEY. August 15. Captain Dean, writing on July 3, describes two minor expeditions to demolish Turkish, observations posts. One at Graba Tope attempted by a hundred■ Australians, tailed owing to the string defence and barbed wire entorigdemeivts. .In the other ' .V party of New Zealanders landed at a point north of An/ac •/ml found "the whole crew of the observation station asleep. Amongst them were several gendarmes m smart blue Two escaped and fifteen were captured, a most successtul little nU<l A(T\decsroni^Rs!lonikn st ate that a German submarine was sunk in the Sea of Alarmora.