FRONTIER CRISIS.
WHY THE SULTAN SEIZED TABAH
SOBERING EFFECT OF TOE ULTIMATUM.
LORD BERESFORD PROCEEDS TO
PIRAEUS
ly telegraph, Press Aas’n, Copyright London, May 6.
The London Telegraph’s Constantinople correspondent reports that the Sultan’s obioot in connection with the seizure of
Te,bah is to sccuro a direct route from Syria to Hodjsz and Yemen, enabling troops to movo throughout the empire without leaving Turkish territory. Rooeived 10 54 p.m., May 7. London, May 7. Vico Admiral Lord Berosford and fleet at Phaltrum are proceeding to Piraeus. The ultimatum had a sobering efifeot in Cairo.
Sermons preached in the mosquo3 were Ibbh inflammatory. The Times’ Constantinople correspondent reports that there is a growing impression that one result cf the Porle s obstioaev will bo to change Egypt’s relations with Turkey. It is felt that the part played by Mukbtar Pasha will justify Britain in refusing to allow any Turkish representative to remain in Egyp'. The commissioner’s mission was apparently to encourage an anti-British agitation subsidised in Constantinople.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXII, Issue 1743, 8 May 1906, Page 2
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