COMPLICATIONS.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1933, 16 December 1913, Page 5

COMPLICATIONS.

GERMANY'S MILITARY MISSION '10 TURKEY.'p|SI||I RUSSIA CALLS UrON FRANCE AND BRITAIN. ' ' GRAND VIZIER'S EXPLANATION. By Telcffraph—Prcsfl Association—CorjfltEhil 1 Constantinople, December 14..'- j The G eniian military mission haa nr- ! rived. *■ ■■ Paris, Decoiribor 11. ! The newspaper "Lu Statin" declares that Russia has requester] Franco and ,! Groat Britain t-o formally demand- : Tut'key to rcmovo live German com- ! mamler. Russia expects Franco to immediate- ; ly cxerciso financial pressure on Turkey,' otherwise she will consider Prance's at-" titu.de as unfriendly. ■■ Constantinople, December 14; In reply to an inquiry by the Ambassadors as t-o tho scope of General ton Sander's mission, the Grand Vizier lias promised a semi-official statement to-morrow. ■ ■ , i/ ■ (Hoc. Deceiubcr 16, 0.5 a.m.) Lonciofi, December 15. Router's Constantinople correspondent states that it is understood that the Grand Vizier's reply to tho British, French, and lhissia.ii inquiries is that arrangements ivero carried out at tho instance of the lato Mahnmd Shevket Pasha, wliereby, instead of the employment of foreign advisers, tho actual command of tho troops was to bo conferred upon foreign officers entering Turkish service. This course had nlrondy I been followed in the eases of tho. navy (under Admiral Limpus) and the ' gendarmerie in Armenian villaycts (under Colonel Hawker). He adds that General Von Sander's authority will bo limited, especially with regard to the Dardanelles, and to Constantinople, whose garrison will be under the command of I'aki Bey. Turkish official opinion lias been much aroused by tho I'ownrs' so-called unwarrantable intorfcienco with Turkey's sovereign rights. Tho most noteworthy consequence of the inquiries has been to confer an unexnccted popularity upon the German military mission, even among the Chauvinists, who at the, outset viewed the proposed foreign command with misgiving.