REMARKABLE STORY BY BRITISH AMBASSADOR

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2332, 14 December 1914, Page 5

REMARKABLE STORY BY BRITISH AMBASSADOR

TURKEY'S ENTRY INTO WAR KHEDIVE OF EGYPT IMPLICATED '..'■' i ■ . London, December 11. Sir Louis Mallet (British Ambassador to Turkey), in a dispatch, states 'that it was-evident in mid-August that Germany would drive Turkey into war. The warnings of the Grand Vizier fell on deaf ears, though ho was fully alive to the precariousness of his own position. • Enver Bey (the Young Turk Party Leader), dominated by the Quasi-Napoleonic ideal and political pan-Islamism, controlled the army, 'which is now entirely in Germany's hands. _ The Sultan, the Heir-Apparent, the Grand Vizier, and Djavid Bey, a majority of the Ministry, with a considerable section of the Committee of Union and Progress, were opposed to the, adventure. Talaat Bey (also a Young Turk leader) held a middle course,, but his hesitations were finally overcome. Enver Bey's emissaries bribed the Bedouins, and war stories wore sent Bouth. A German officer, provided with large sums of money, went to Syria to suborn the local chiefs. ' _ ■ The Khedive himself was a party '.to the conspiracy. The Gorman Embassy actually made arrangements for his presence in the military expedition across the frontier. ' . ' ... The Allies' Ambassadors, hoping to delay the war, accepted many hostile acts, whipb. might have occasioned a rupture of relations. After the attack on Odessa and trie Bedouin occupation of the wells at Magdaba, for the purpose of an attack on the Suez Canal, the Ambassador had a painful interview with the Grand Vizier, who pleaded that the situation was still not irretrievable. Sir Louis Mallet replied that the only possibility was the dismissal of the German missions. The majority of the Cabinet and Council on'the evening of August 29 favoured peace, but were powerless to dismiss the German naval men. ' . ; KHEDIVE OP EGYPT WITH TURKISH ARMY STRANGE INTERVIEW WITH GERMAN NEWSPAPER. (Rec. December 13, 3.30 p.m.) ; . Cairo, December 12. The A'ustrians and Germans in employment at the rnixed tribunals have been deported to Cyprus. ' I The Khedive is at Alesandretta, where three hundred German officers and forty thousand Turkish troops are gathered. The Berlin newspaper "Vossische Zeitung's" representative interviewed the Khedive at Constantinople, when/.the llatter said: "Turkey is going to strike England at her /most vulnerable point. • The enterprise has been most carefully prepared. When England's political pressure has been removed, arid her economic coercion ceases, Germany will take her proper place in the Egyptian markets." .. . ' ■ ~ . • The Khedive added: "The Kaiser is our greatest living We revered him on account of his sympathy to Islam." Alesandretta (Iskanderum) is a seaport m Asiatic Tuncey, on the eastern side of the Gulf of Akaba, in the angle between Asia Minor and Syria. !'' ' TURKISH TROOPS REBEL'AGAINST THE GERMAN TYRANNY, (Reo. December 13, .4 'p.m.') London, DecemEer 12. A' message received from 'Athens reports that several weeks' of revolt by Turkish officers and men at Constantinople against the German officers' tyranny culminated in a serious riotf in the barracks at Stamboul. Two of the German instructors at Stamboul were wounded. ; AN AFFRONT TO ITALY. J \ (Reo. December 13, 4.15 p.m.), Rome, December 12. Turkish soldiers endeavoured to arrest the British Consul at Hadeida (a seaport'at'the southern end of the Red Sea, on the Arabian side). The latter escaped to the Italian Consulate, but the Turks forced'an entrance and seized the British Consul. - Italy has sent a strong protest to the Porte. The Italian newspapers demand a complete explanation. (Rec. December 14, 0.5 a.m.) Rome, December 13. The warship Guiliana. has arrived at Hodeida. TURKISH GUNBOAT MINED AND SUNK. " . ' ' (Rec. December 13, ! 4 p.m.) Paris, December 12. A message from Constantinople states that a Turkish gunboat was sunk by a mine\at the entrance to the Dardanelles. (Rec. December 13, 4 p.m.) Amsterdam, December 12. It is reported from Berlin that the Turkish fleet bombarded the coast in the neighbourhood of Batoum (in the Black Sea), Billing a number of Russians and wounding many. ■ . VON DER GOLTZ IN BULGARIA. (Rec. December 13, 4 p.m.) Sofia, December 12. Field-Marshal von Der Goltz, of the German Imperial Staff, who is stayin-' for-a few days in Bulgaria, says that ho will occupy apartments in the Sultan's palace, and asume vice-Tcgal functions. . E7LPORT OF FIGS AND GRAPES FORBIDDEN. (Rec. December 13, 3.30 p.m.) Athens, December 12. <'h|u forblddeu the export gf fi»s »«<* Bf«»« from Smyrna, la the