Los Angeles herald., 1906-08-27
TURKEY At OUTS
WITH PERSIA NOW
DISPUTE OF COUNTRIES AS
SUMES SERIOUS ASPECT
Row ls Very Old and Has Been Wax
ina Hotter Since ts35-Turks
Are In Persian Territory
and Won't Go
ny LEO HARBURGER


Special Gable to The Herald.
CoNsTANTINOPLE, Aug. 26.-The
dispute between Turkey and Persia is
assuming a rather serious outlook, due
TO the fact that the Turks are employ
ing the same dilatory and aggressive
methods as they are employing In
Egypt.
The history of the frontier dispute is
a very old one. but only assumed seri-
business in 1885. when the Turkish Vail
of Bagdad suddenly beseged Moham-
rnarah. a Persian town. on that occa-
sion the British and Russian govern
ments intervened, and commission, on
which all the four governments inter-
ested were represented, was formed at
Erzeroum to consider the question. A
map was then drawn up dealing gener-
ally with the frontier from Mount
Ararat to the Persian gulf, but it was
not completed until 1850
Last year the Turks once more re-
turned to the attack and occupied the
town Of Vazneh and a portion of the
province of Lahijan, which are two of
the points in dispute. They not only re-
fused to evacuate these in response to
protests from the Persian government.
but seized the town of Passovah which
is indisputably Persian territory.
To save the Turkish face, mixed
commission has now gone to Passovah,
to prove formally that it belong to Per-
sia, and then the aggressive troops will,
It is understood, be withdrawn, but
matters DRAG on; the Turks are greatly
strengthening their forces on the from
tier, and further aggressions are feared.
Their Methods
AS Illustrating the methods of the
Grand Turk nothing can be more sig
nificant than the fiat which prohibits
the publication in journals throughout
the empire of all questions relative to
Pan-Islamisn. 1t is a question as to
whether proclamations of this kind
really do any good. since the discussions
are never really stopped and the sum
resultant appears to be that the people
are left in denser and denser ignorance.
The wave of Pan-Isamism which is
sweeping over Egypt is factor in poll
tics which cannot be too seriously in
terpreted.
1t was stemmed by the firmness of
Great Britain over the Tabah incident,
and by the execution of the murderers
of Captain Bull at Denishawi but only
for a time.
Lord Cromer has warned the govern
ment in the gravest language of the
the appearance of 1t.
But what has happened? The British
government has promised further troops
"at an early date" They have not ar
rived, and in spite of the fats news is
being spread in subtle fashion by the
native press that the British army is
being reduced by the war minister,
and that troops cannot be spared to
keep order in Egypt.
Like Lord cromer
The natives hold high opinion of
Lord Cromer-the man who has made
Egypt what it is--but if his advice is
disregarded it will appear in their eyes
to be a sign of weakness in the once
dreaded and powerful Great Britain,
and a spur to the campaign engineered
by Mustapha Kamel Pasha and other
preachers of sedition now in England
to strike blow for national indepen-
dence
1t is firmly established that a certain
number of the officers Of the Egyptian
army are imbued with revolutionary
sentiments, and would give expression
to them on the first opportunity, and
Sheikhs continue to preach the expul-
sion of Christians
The Ecumenical Patriarchate has
been placed in a most awkward position
by the recent attacks on Greeks in Phil
ippopolis as the Ottoman subjects of
the Patriarchate are demanding the in
tervention of Turkey to protect Greek
clergy and property from the Bulgar-
ians. The Porte however does not wish
to interfere. knowing that Bulgaria will
pay no attention. Otherwise there might
have been witnessed another example
Of the Turks keeping rival Christian
churches from fighting. In the mean
while the Bulgarians declare their in
tention of renewing Sundays disturb
ances, in order to force the departure
of all the Greek clergy, whom they ac-
cuse of melting the Greeks to attack
Bulgarians in Macedonia.