Turkey

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXX, Issue 53, 19 October 1914, Page 5

Turkey

TURCO-BULCARIAN ALLIANCE. London, October 16. The Daily Telegraph’s Athens correspondent states that Turkey and Bulgaria have made a binding agreement for a combined attack on Rouraania if Roumania attacks Austria. THE DARDANELLES INCIDENT. Constantinople, October 17. Sir Edward Mallet has circularised 'the Consuls in Turkey denying the fantastic' reports from German sources that Russians invaded Persia, and that I risings had occurred in Afghanistan, ! India and Egypt. He pointed out that the German commander had closed the 'Dardanelles because a German-officered jTurkish destroyer had been turned back by the British fleet. The British had previously notified Turkey that the destroyer was considered part of the German fleet while officered and manned by Germans.

TUREY’S NEUTRALITY. Constantinople, October 16. Turkey has re-affirmed her neutrality', indicating that reports of the jGoeben and Breslau fighting are -untrue. THE ATTEMPTED ASSASSINATION OF THE BUXTONS. (Received 8.50 a.m.) Bucharest, October 18. It is reported that Mr Noel Buxton’s assailant confessed he is a member of a secret society, and that he considered the Buxtons were Turkey’s greatest adversaries and were seeking to establish a new Balkan alliance against her, and he did not wish Turkey to come under Britain’s exclusive influence.