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Show ! HUNS ENDEAVORING 10 SAVETHE TURKS QUARTER OF MILLION TROOPS RUSHED TO BULGARIA TO GUARD ORIENT RAIWAY. Germany Making Desperate Effort to Prevent Turkey From Deserting the Kaiser's Army of Women and Baby Butchers. London. Germany, if reports from a lieuiral cooler can lie relied upon, is going to make a great eil'ort to maintain main-tain coinnmnicatiou ocr the Orient railway Willi Turkey, and thus hopes to keep her eastern ally in t he war. Turkey, cut off from Germany, lias not the manpower to protect the two gaps through which the allies are threatening the Ottoman empire, at the heart and south of the Taurus mountains. The peace demonstrations at Constantinople, Con-stantinople, led by Talaat Pasha and backed by a tremendous force of public pub-lic opinion, are forcing I he issue. - Only the Turkish first and second armies are available for the defense of Constantinople. According to a Hague dispatch to the Central News, 1!.""0,000 German and Austro-Hungnrian troops have arrived at Sofia from Rumania and while part of these will remain in Sofia as an argument ar-gument favoring the overthrow of the Malinoff .government, the majority will endeavor to keep the allied troops from the Orient railway which Joins Germany and Austria wilh Constantinople, Constanti-nople, the capture of which was a few years ago hailed as the greatest achievement of the central powers. The removal of troops from Rumania, Ru-mania, however, is not without danger. A few weeks ago, when appealed to by his colleagues on the western front, for assistance, Field Marshal Von Mackensen reported that conditions in Rumania did not warrant the transfer of a single soldier to that country. Now Rumanians are predicting that if the Rumanian army does not rejoin the allies, there will he at least a rising in that country which will completely com-pletely nullify the Bucharest treaty so far as It provides for the .revictualling of the central powers. German papers, too, express suspicion sus-picion of the crown council held Sunday Sun-day ostensibly for a discussion of The crown prince's marriage, but at which other mutters might be discussed. The presence at this council of ex-Premier Braliano, who is strongly for the allies, is strongly commented upon by the German press. |