The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1914-09-12
WOULD INVOLVE UNCLE sam.
TURKISH AMBASSADOR CLAIMS
THAT THIS is MOTIVE OF
ENGLAND.
When she Suggests That Uncle Sam
Send warships to Turkish Waters to
Project Christians-Says Suggestion
- . 'sTrap'-Says Warships arc Un-
necessary.

Washington. Sept 7.-Charging that
the intimation by Great Britain to
the United States that she would well
como the presence Of American war
vessels In Turkish waters to protect
Christians was merely "a vulgar trap
90 get the United States mixed up In
the European fray on the allies side.
A. Rustem Bey. Turkish AMBASSADOR
here. issued 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 spectre Of a
massacre Of Christians in Turkey. and
has made this gruesome picture Of the
Immediate future, done with absolute
disregard to truth. a pretext for re-
questing the United States to dispatch
|, ,warships to Turkish ports. That there
have been massacres In Turkey I can
not. unfortunately. deny. but the Ar
menians and Maronites. who were the
victims. suffered at the hands Of the
Noslems. not as Christians. but as po-
lftical asitators. engaged In undermin-
Ing the Ottoman State. the while
Haunting In the face Of the govern
ment and dominant race the support
Of Russia. France and England.
Under the same provocation what
would Russia have done. who has
given the world tho spectacle Of not
one. but twenty. programmes against
an innocent race: what France, who
smoked to death In caverns the Alger-
ians fighting for the independence of
their land. who later on rejoiced In
that grand production. the Commune;
what England. whose punishment Of
the 'revels In the Indian mutiny was
TO blow them of guns?
And since Lar .:e number of Amer
lean papers are siding with Great Brit
ain and France In this affair. shall
permit myself to say that the thought
OF the lynchings which occur daily I'm
the United States and the memory of
the water cures I'm the Philippines
should make them chary of attacking
Turkey In connection with acts of saw
agery committed by her under provo
cation compared with which the eco
noinic competition of an Italian or the
sniping Of Filipino. or even the out
N
"supposing. for the sake of argu-
ment. what In reality never could hap
pen. that the negroes were discovered
to be engaged In a conspiracy with the
japanese to facilitate the invasion of
the United States by the latter. how
many Of them would be left alive to
tell the tale?
Great Britain and France have em-
ba, scd upon new campaign Of pro-
vocation against T rkey. secretly hop
ing that as result OF IL something
untoward may happen In that country
To confirm their sinister predictions. so
that the United States finally would be
prevailed upon to detach warships to
the Levant and thus get mixed I'm the
European fray on the allies side. but
i believe the administration too saga
cious to fall into such vulgar trap.
Resides. why should the United
States. not one OF whose citizens has
ever suffered In Turkey. send warshlps
I'm the waters Of that country. with
the result that II would only cause ir-
ritation against her and could under
no circumstances act as check
lombard Smyrna. Beyrouth. which
are mostly inhabited by Christians 4?
What OF that? and what more could
she do? Nothing. But that would bc
enough to mean war. DO the people
OF the United states want war?
THE new British move against Tur-
key Is clumsy. II will not cause the
United states to modify it's attitude
hut IL has called forth the following
telegram from New York To the Turk
ism embassy:
"If Turkey goes to war against
England the Hindoes ana Mussulnans
Of India and elsewhere will support