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Show TURK SITUATION IS MUCH BETTER nnver rasha Keturns to Constantinople Con-stantinople and Reports Military Outlook. BEST SINCE WAR BEGAN Turkey and Allies Ready to Meet Any Offensive Enemy May Launch. LONDON, March 12, 0.16 a. m En-1 ver Pasha, who has Just returned from Asia Minor to Constantinople, has informed in-formed the Turkish parliament that: the military situation is better than at any time since Turkey's entrance ! into the war, according to a Reutcr dispatch from Constantinople by way of Amsterdam. Enver Pasha is quoted as saying: "We and our allies await with calm I confidence any offensive which the enemy may launch in the coming! spring. The chamber will pardon me j if I preserve silence regarding the ac-1 lion which we on our part propose to i take. "The safety of the Turkish coast and the Dardanelles Is better assured than ever before. On the Sinai front the; situation Is unchanged. On the Meso-potaraian Meso-potaraian front wo retired northward for military reasons. For similar reasons rea-sons we hae drawn in toward Ker-manshah Ker-manshah on the Persian front. The situation on the Caucasus front is unchanged. un-changed. To sum up, the whole outlook out-look justifies confidence in the future. Thanks to the Almighty we shall obtain ob-tain tho final victory." -w-i |