The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1914-09-16
SICK MAN" WAKES UP
TURKEY ADVOCATES TREATIES
WITH MANY NATIONS.
Ambassador Announces That WaS' is
Turkish Observation-Disclosures
Highly Interested.


Turkey formally notified the Unit
ed States and other nations Thurs
day that she had abrogated the serie
of conventions, treaties and privilege
originating as early as the Eleventh
century, whereby foreigners in thu
Ottoman Empire have been exemp
from local jurisdiction in civil ant
criminal cases.
Foreign subjects no longer will en-
JOY what is known as extra-territoria
rights through which they have beer
tried by their own judges, diplomatic
representative or consuls. This prac
tice, abolished by Japan several years
ago through new treaties, Turkey has
removed by a stroke of the pen. Hel
PURPOSE, it is declared, is to assert
her independence and free herself
from the domination of the grea,
powers.
Upon the rights revoked has rest.
ed the legal status of American mis-.
sionaries in Turkey, permitting them
to maintain churches, hospitals and
schools in religious freedom.
1.-The removal of every kind OF
privilege enjoyed by the powers in
excess of what the general principles
of international law allow is the
meaning of tits STEP" A. Rustem
Bey. Turkish ambassador to the
United States, declared Thursday
night. This war is Turkeys oppor-
tunity."
The ambassador did not intimate
whether the action foreshadowed war
against Great Britain, without whose
consent in the past no such radical
action would have been attempted.
Diplomats of the allied powers, how
ever, believe Turkey is appealing to
the Nationalist sentiment OF her peo-
pie and is ready to seize on any diff
culties that may arise with Great
Britain as a pretext to declare war.
The Turkish ambassador made
known his governments action in a
public announcement after it had
been communicated to Secretary
Bryan Thursday as formal note
from the Ottoman Empire. The an
nouncement reads:
"a cablegram to the Turkish am
bassador from the Ottoman Minister
of Foreign Affairs states that by I'm
perial TRADE the Ottoman govern
ment has abrogated, as from the first
of October next the conventions
known as the capitulations restrict
ing the sovereignty Of Turkey in her
relations with certain powers.
"All privilege and immunities &C
eessory to these conventions or issu-
ing therefrom are equally repealed.
Having thus freed itself from an in
tolera BILE obstacle to all progress in
the Empire, the Imperia government
has adopted as the basis of its re-
lations with the other powers the
general principles of international
law"
In diplomatic circles the announce
ment of Turkeys attitude attracted
the widest attention. The allies are
known to expect at any moment a
declaration of war by Turkey in be-
half of Germany. Comment was
heard among diplomats of the allied
powers as to possible deliberations
between the German foreign Office
and the Porte before the decision to
abrogate the treaties was reached.
So far as diplomats Of the allies
would venture an opinion, the predic-
ton was made that Great Britain,
France and Russia probably would
not make any representations on the
subject to Turkey at this time, leav-
ing it until the close of the war.