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When war broke out the position of Turkey was an uncertain one, but she eventually fell a victim to German machinations and threw in her lot with the Kaiser. In the early days she gave shelter to the runaway German cruisers, the Goeben and the Breslau—and later both these vessels were used to bombard Sebastopol and Theodosia. The campaign against Turkey was in three sections—the attack on the Dardanelles, the expedition to Mesopotamia, and the preservation of Egypt and the advance through Palestine. Although the Dardanelles attack was not successful and we had a set-back at Kut, the British forces eventually broke the Turkish power in Mesopotamia and Palestine, and on October 30th, 1918, the Turks were granted an armistice.