Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1914-09-08
RuStem Bey, Ambassador to
United States, Relieves Him
self Of Some Observations
About Christian Countries,
REFERS CAUSTlCALLY TO
LYNCHINGS IN SOUTH
In Remarkable Statement Dip
lomat Admits Turkish Mas
SacreS but Says YOU'RE
Another" to Rest Of World.


Washington. Sept. 7.-charging that
the lntimation by Great Britain to the
United States that she would welcome
the presence Of American war vessels
in Turkish waters 10 protect Chris
tians was merely vulgar trap" 10
get the United States mixed in the
European fray on the allies side" A.
Rustem Bey, Turkish ambassador, is
sued tonight the following statement:
According to today's papers Great
Britain. following In the footsteps Of
France. has agitated before the eyes
Of the United States the specter of a
massacre of Christians In Turkey and
has made this gruesome picture Of
the immediate future. drawn with abb
soute disregard to truth, pretext for
requesting the United States to dis
patch warships to Turkish ports
That there have peen massaeres
IN Turkey. ! cannot. unfortunately,
deny; but the victims suffered at the
hands of the Moslems mot as Chris
tians, but as political agitators un-
demining the ottoman state.
"Iynchings Occurs Daily"
Under the same provocation what
would Russia have done who has Civ
Ell the world the spectacle OF not one
but twenty programs against an in
nocent race: what France who smoked
to death in caverns the Algerians
fighting for the independence of their
land, who later on rejoiced in that
grand production, the Commune: what
England whose punishment Of the re-
bells in the Indian mutiny' was to
blow them off with guns?
And since large number of Amer
lean papers are siding with Great
Britain and France In this affair, 4
will permit myself to say that the
thought of lynchings which occur
daily in the United States and the
memory OF the water cures in the
Philippines should make them chary
Of attacking Turkey IN connection with
the acts of sayagery committed by her
under provocation compared with
which the economic competition OF an
Italian or the sniping Of Filipino or
even the outrage of negro are as
nothing.
"Supposing for the sake of argu-
ment, what In reality could never hap
pen. that the negroes were discovered
to be engaged in conspiracy with
the Japanese to facilitate an invasion
Of the United States by the latter, how
many of them would be left alive to !
tell the tale?
Calls IL Vulgar Trap.
Great Britain and France have en- |
barked upon a new campaign of provz |
ocation against Turkey. secretly hop
ing that as a result Of IL something !
untoward may happen in that country
to confirm their sinister predictions, 50
that the United states will finally be
prevailed upon to detach warships to
he Levant and thus get mixed in the
European fray on the allies side, but
believe the administration too saga
,iols to fan 4 iiito suc;a a vulgar Trap. !.
Besides, why should the United
States, not one Of whose citizens has
sver suffered in Turkey. send war;
ships in the waters of that country,
,anse irritation against her ana could
inder no circumstances act as a
heck? Bombard Smyrna. Beirut,
which are merely inhabitated by Chris
ians? What OF that And what more
'ould she do? Nothing But that
would be enough to mean war Do
he people Of the United States want |,
var?
The new British move against Tur-
'ey is clumsy. 1t will not cause the
fnited states to modify its attitude.
But Ii has called forth the following
elegram from New York. to the Turk
sh embassy:
II Turkey goes TO war against
England. the Hindoos and MusseImans
n India and elsewhere will support
Ter in every way Thousands of vol
nteers are ready
tsigned, eBHAyANKAR. Il
&" 'Gadar National Volunteers. 4
"'57 East 2ooth street.