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APPENDIX.
MISCELLANEOUS CUTTINGS FEOM THE PRESS.
Mr. Asquith and Armenia.
SPEAKING on the 9th November at the Mansion House banquet, Mr. Asquith
sternly alluded to the systematic massacres of the Armenian race which have been
carried out by the Turks during the war—massacres which Germany has never lifted a
finger to prevent, and which have been on a scale without precedent. He foreshadowed
“an era of liberty and redemption for this ancient people” at the end of the war.
That can only mean the determination ot the Allies to rescue the Armenians permanently
from the clutches of the Ottoman Turks, and we hope we are not drawing too large an
inference from the passage in which the latter were alluded to as “ strangers and
intruders in Europe ” if we interpret it as a threat to make an end, once and tor all, of
their baleful presence. But, while we applaud, let us not forget that all this postulates,
not merely victory, but crushing victory, over the Central Empires, and a long draft
upon that “ stock of patience and resolve ” of which the Prime Minister spoke in his
eloquent peroration.
[The “ Daily Telegraph,” 10 th November, 1916.]
Sultan oe Egypt.
Turks Sentence Him to Death “ by Default."
. . . Amsterdam, Friday.
It is announced m a message from Beirut that a Turkish court-martial at Aleppo
has passed sentence of death by default on the Sultan of Egypt, Hussain
Kemal Pasha An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders. , on a chaige of having placed under foreign dominion a part of Turkish
territory. The sentence has received the sanction of the Sultan of Turkey
Central News.
A 7 ote.—The Sultan of Egypt was appointed by the British Government in
December 1914, when the former Khedive was removed from his position.
[The “ Evening Standard,” 17th November, 1916.]
The Dardanelles.
“ Purely a Turkish Matter Now."
_ . . Amsterdam, Friday.
- Gon ™ entm g on the notice given by the Turkish Government of the termination
ot the ireaties of Berlin and Paris, a Constantinople telegram to the “ Kolnische
Volkszeitung points out that the Turkish Note handed to the German and Austro-
Hungarian Governments mentions violation oi these treaties by Great Britain Russia
Urance, and Italy, but not those by Germany and Austria-Hungary, in connection with
the annexation of Bosnia.and Herzegovina.
The journal points out that the question of the Dardanelles, which till now has
been ot international significance, will become, as a result of the termination of the
two treaties a purely Turkish affair, and the privileged position of the Lebanon
province will be abolished.—Reuter. '
\Ibid.~\
Enemy Propaganda in England.
The “Daily Mail” of the 17th November published the reproduction of a
photograph, entitled the Wreck of a Ship of the Desert.” It represents a camel
lying dead, and the letterpress says that it is a camel killed by exhaustion in a chase
that lasted three days and nights after the battle of Romani. This camel was an
ambulance beast : it is shown carrying two cots, one of which has on it a very large
Red Crescent, which is equivalent to the Red Cross and recognised by the Geneva
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