THE TROUBLE IN TURKEY.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9154, 30 July 1908, Page 5

THE TROUBLE IN TURKEY.

CABLE NEWS.

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OUTBURST OF PRO-BRITISH FEELING.

Received July 28, 8.20 a.m. ' CONSTANTINOPLE, July 28. ' Thsre is a remarkable outburst of pro-British feeling in Stamboul, tho populace attributing the change in the regime to British policy.

For some years it has generally j been recognised that German diplom- > acy was in the ascendant at C"t:stan- > tinople, but the incidents of Said Pasha and Kiamil Pasha showed how great was the prestige of the British in the Empire. The following summary'of the incident of Kiamil Pasha appeared in a London paper at the time:—"Kiamil Pasha, once Grand Vizier to the Sultan, -and a good example of the respectahle olde Turkish school, fell out of favour some time ago, and was ordered to Aleppo. Aleppo has an ill name for Turkish exiles, so he succeeded in getting himself sent to Aidin, the province in which Smyrna is situated, and of this province he remained Vali till the other day. He is now eighty years old. and has been called upon to surrender his post, Rhodes being assigned to him as his place of residence. Rhodes, however bears ns ill a name as Aleppo, and, remembering the fate of Midliat, and following the example of Suid Pasha, Kiamil, has sought sanctuary in the British Embassy at Smyrna and refuses to move till the Sultan has given the British Charge d'Affaires assuram es of his safety. The fact that his son, to whose misdeeds he is said to have owed the loss of his Valiship. has been received into high favour at Constantinople, has naturally made the old man suspicious, more especially as lie has powerful er.emies at court, and has always represented a policy the opposite of The assurances he seeks will no doubt be given, and, being assurances to Britain, the Sultan dare not go back on his word; but the whole incident shows that the British flag is still regarded in the Turkish Empire as the protection of those who stand in fear of injustice ''