ANGLO-TURKISH RUPTURE.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 8096, 28 April 1906, Page 3

ANGLO-TURKISH RUPTURE.

NO IMMEDIATE FEAR OP CONFLICT. *■ MOBILISATION DENIED. Lonbon, April 26. The "Taibune" is responsible for the publication of tlie unconfirmed report regarding the mobilisation. Its Cairo correspondent learns that Turkey intends to support her claims by force, though there is no immediate prospect "of "a conflict

_ - rlt is officially denied that the first Frenoh Army "Corps ismobilisiug, v TURKSRCWIffift ACTIVE. large increase~'in EGYPTIAN GARRISON. . „ » AN OEFICIAL STATEMENT. Received 28,1.32 a.m. London, April 27. A battery of Horse Artillery and three companies of Inniskilling Fusileers at Crete have been transferred to Egypt. Neuter reports that it is intended to increase the garrison to five thousand. The " Times' " Cairo correspondent says a report is credited in. official oircles that Turks destroyed the pillars •of Batt, near Xlarish. In the House of Commons, S'r Edward Grey stated that Lard Cromer considers that in view of the unrest ■existing in Egypt, which in some measure is due to the action of the

Porfe in connection with the frontier, .■ ".iit i? desirable to reinforce the garrison. .. This,,would be.done,but the actual dem- under consideration. It was impossible to say. for how long | "F* tßd increase would be necessary. This •: j, [f The Tii^es 1 '- declares that Sir .Bdwnd' Grey's statement regarding the increase; in the garrison and his reference to thet Porte's action, is a serious (announcement, and trusts the . ; : will be quickly understood at Constantinople and Cairo. t