Los Angeles herald., 1910-10-09
FRENCH. LOAN TO
TURKEY DELAYED
Attitude of Young Turks Gives
Foreign Office Consid-
cradle UneasineSS

PARIS, Oct. s.-While the bargain
between the French and Turkish gov
ernnents for French assent to the pro-
posed Turkish loan has yet to be
clinched there is some anxiety mere
provoked by recent incidents in Whlch
the Young Turks and the new Turkish
regime have given considerable uH-
easiness to the French foreign onlce.
The unaccountably irresponsible out
bursts Of Javid Bey at ConstantlIlople,
though far more provoking, 1t seems
now that complete transcriptions nave
been received than was at first sug-
gested and believed, have been ac~
cepted only as a symptom, all the less
important as the declarations of the
Turkish minister of finance We're con-
siderably at variance both In matter
and form with those made by Hakkl
Pasha, the Turkish grand vizler, 10
French ministers in Paris. The un-
necessarily exalted tone of several
Turkish newspapers on other points,
apart from the loan negotiations, has
caused more concern, especially as they
come simultaneously with several small
anti-foreign incidents of the same ma
ture as a demonstration against the
Italian ambassador a week ago-Whlch
point to a return to the state otfairs
in the Turkish capital which was COM
mon several years ago.
Another incident Of which news has
been received has greatly added to this
uneasiness A dispatch received from
Smvrna describes a rather hlgh-
handed action on the part of Turkish
officials in that port Iunlslall
French subject named Kitani, employed
in the Egyptian administration, fled
from Egypt to Smyrna and was subse-
ouently indicted in Egypt for en-
bezzlement. The Egyptian government
hearing that Kitani was at smyrna
communicated to the French legation
at Cairo and asked for authorization to
pursue Kitani before the French con-
sulate at Smyrna.
DEMAND Is DENIED
The request was submitted to the
Ouoi d'Orsay and was granted, and
the French consul arrested Kitani as
the latter was about to leave Smyrna.
When two kaVas announced his ar
rest Kitani, though undoubtedly a
Tunisian French subject, explained
that he was an Ottoman subject. The
Turkish police of Smyrna insisted on
taking him into their hands. He was
led to the police headquarters and was
searched A French passport was
found, but the Turkish officials in
sisted. nevertheless, that he was an
ottoman subject, and, Notwithstanding
SGNGl il lOA mai pCA'bAlu9 Wy Cllo l. AS+io'A
consul, they refused to hand him over
to the kavas of the French consul
The impression is growing in Paris
that there is some systematic intention
revealed by these incidents of Turkey
maintaining her suzeraln rights over
all natives of northern Africa, whether
they be Algerlans or Tunisians. 1t Is
not suggested that this is done on the
initiative of the Turkish government
if that We're so it will easily be under
stood that the case would be considered
of the utmost gravity-but 1t is pointed
out very pertinently that such series
of minor affronts to French soyer-.
eighty in Algeria and Tunis cannot
have occurred without the knowledge
of the Turkish government, and that
each incident at least calls for some
apology or reparation on the part OF
the Porte