Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1914-11-04
Russia Demands Dismissal Of
German Officers from
Turkish Ships
MUST PUT WARSHIPS
OUT OF COMMISSION
Sultan Up Against 1t As War
Party Will Never Consent
to RusSia's Terms

Petrograd, Nov. g. Fareddin Bey,
the Turkish ambassador here, left
Petrograd with his staff today after he
had been assaulted by Russian EN-.
ployes Of his own embassy.
The allies had previously rejected
the sultan's partial apology for acts Of
hostility committed by Ottoman war
ships against Russian ports and Black
Sea shipping Hostilities apparently
being inevitable, the ambassador i'm.
mediatcly began preparations to leave.
The Russian help at the embassy there
upon demanded four months arrears Of
pay. Fareddin replied that Il would be
Forthcoming when the Turks took
Odessa
The attack on him followed. One
clerk struck him on the jaw, The police
were called but refused to interfere,
Members Of his staff finally succeeded
however in protecting the departing
Turkish diplomat and the party left by
way Of Finland shortly afterward.
"Russia,' proclaimed manifesto
which the ear issued today, welcoming
war with the sultan, twill receive this
fresh aggression on the part Of the
ancient prosecutor Of the Christian peo-
pies with tranquility. The Slavs will
meet the issue with confidence realiz-
ing that, with God s help, their valiant
armies will triumph again over the
Turkish hordes and punish the insolent
foes Of the fatherland.n
II was expected that within week
an imperial decree would be issued OK.
polling all Turks from Russia.
What Russia Demands.
The sultan . apology took the form Of
an expression of regret for the attack
ON Russia In the Black sea and Of an
offer to withdraw his fleet from those
waters, The allies insisted, however,
that the cruisers Goeben and Breslau be
put out Of commission until the end Of
the war, that the German Officers in
the Ottoman service be dismissed, and
according to some accounts that the
Turkish army be demobilized.
The Constontnope government
showed no signs Of acceding to these
terms and indeed It was doubtful If
the Turkish war party, led by Enver
Pasha, the war minister, a highly in.
fluential parsonage at the sultan's cap
ital, would even acquiesee in the
apology,
Reports were current that the Russian
Bluck Sea fleet was already conCen.
trated and awaiting the Turkish squad
rons attack Naval officers expressed
entire confidence TINT thp Cynr'g fOren.
would win easily
They asserted, too, that the fighting
effectiveness Of the former German
cruiser Goeben had been much over
rated, During rs recent bombardmenl
Of Sevnstopol, they stated, the vosso
was hit by n shot from one Of the shor,
forts which damaged the mechanism oil
the turrets, interfering with the manip
ula non Of the guns, 30 badly, in fact
was the ship disabled, Il was asserted
that II was deemed the highly trnineC
German crew would he wasted on boart
II and the men were accordingly dis
tributed among the sultan Is other fight
ing crafts,
Unconfirmed accounts we're received
OF fighting between the Russians unt
Turks In the Caucus.
Whether or not clash actually hat
occurred, II was definitely and Of
| ficially announced that the viceroy II
that territory had been ordered TO eros
into Turkey and attack the Ottoman
troops said TO be massng on the sui
tan q side Of the frontier.