BRITAIN AND TURKEY.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXVIX, Issue 8138, 12 May 1906, Page 5

BRITAIN AND TURKEY.

THE TROUBLE IS EGYPT. BRITISH CRUISER SQUADRON. Received May 11, 9.17 a.m. LONDON, May 10. Prince f ,ouis of Battenbers's cruiser squadron has" 1 reached Phalerum (a seaport south of Athens and east of Piraeus). WHAT THE SULTAN'S ADVISERS ANTICIPATE Received May 11, 11.27 p.m. LONDON, May 11. Rear-Admiral Lambton, in the Minerva, bis proceeded to Cairo to watch the Suez Canal. The Sultan's advisers autioinate that Great Britain's measures will merely be similar to those she is aoonsliomed to employ. The Constantinople correspondent ;of the Times states that unless Tabah is evacuated before Monday the aotion ot Great Britain will be so deoided that tbe energetic Turks will bitterly regret their obstinacy. INTERNATIONAL ARBITRATION Reoeived May 12, 12.12 a.rc. LONDON. May 11. In the House of Commons, Mr A. Lupton asked whether the Government would consider the advisableneas of international arbitration in connection with tbe Tabah incident. Sir Edward Grey replied that Turkey's claims raise an i«sue going far beyond Tabab, and aaded: "We cannot refer safely the Suez Canal and Egypt to arbitration. The beet method of defining the frontier is a joint commission." Sir Edward Grey's reference to Turkey's olairos point to Makhtor Pashas demand, on behalf of the Sultan, that the Sinai Peninsula boundary should run from Elrafah to Suez and Suez to Akabah.

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