TURKEY.
Feb. 1—There is widespread suffering in Palestine and Syria.
Feb. 3—Abdul Hamid advises peace.
Feb. 6—Archives of the Porte are moved to Asia Minor; Field Marshal von der Goltz's rule is stated to be absolute; it is reported that able-bodied men are exempted from service on payment of money.
Feb. 13—The Russians hold a total of 49,000 Turkish prisoners of war, according to estimates from Petrograd; a strict mail censorship prevails in Syria.
Feb. 15—Officers who conspired to stop the war are court-martialed.
Feb. 16—French Vice Consul at Sana is freed from detention.
Feb. 20—Jerusalem authorities are ordered to guard non-Moslems as a result of intervention of United States Ambassador Morgenthau.
Feb. 21—More reserves are called out; bitterness toward Germans is being expressed in Syria.
Feb. 27—At a Cabinet Council in Constantinople it was decided to transfer the seat of Government to Broussa in Asia Minor.