TURKISH BLUFF
BRITISH CRUISER AT ALEXANDETTA TURKS IMPRISON BRITISHERS CRUISER'S CAPTAIN TAKES ACTION I'"Times" and Sydney '.'Sun" Serricos.l London, January, 26. When news reached Damascus that a British cruiser was threatening the railway at Alexandetta, all the British residents in Damascus were imprisoned and compelled to sign telegrams to the captain of the oruisev stating that the British would bo shot if any Moslems were killed by bombardment. * The captain retorted that he would hold Djimel Pasha personally responsible for any harm to the' Britishers, who were thereupon released. [Alexandetta is tho port of Aleppo, on the Gulf of Scanderoon, in the northeast angle of the Levant. ' It is the terminus of a branch of tho Bagdad •railway.]
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Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2370, 28 January 1915, Page 5
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118TURKISH BLUFF Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2370, 28 January 1915, Page 5
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