The Sentinel=record., 1914-09-09
TURKISH ENVOY
 GROWS WRATHY
SAYS ENGLAND IS TRYING TO IN VOLVE TURKEY IN TROUBLE
 WITH THE U. S.
Alleges That Allies Want to Get Thi- Country Mixed Up in the Present War in Europe.

Washington, Sept S.-Charging that the intimation by Great Britain to the United States that she would wei come the presence of American war vessels in Turkish waters to protect Christians was merely vulgar trap | to get the United States mixed in | the European fray on the allies side, A. Rustem Bey, Turkish ambassador here, issued tonight the following l statement:
 According to today's papers, Great | Britain, following in the foot steps Of France, has agitated before the eyes of the United States the spectre of massacre of Christians in Turkey and | has made this gruesOme picture of l the immediate future, drawn with ab- solute disregard to truth, pretext for requiring the United States to dis patch war ships to Turkish ports | That there have been massacres in | Turkey, I cannot, unfortunately, deny, but the Armenians and Maronites. who were the victims suffered at the | hands of the Moslems, not as Chris tians but as political agitators engag ed in undermining the ottoman state, the while Haunting in the face Of the government and dominant race the support of Russia, France and Eng | land.
 Under the same prOvocation, what would Russia have done, who has given the world the spectacle of not one but twenty pogroms against an innocent race; what France, who smoked to death in caverns the AL gerians fighting for the independence of their land. Who later rejoced in that grand production, the commune, what England, whose punishment of the rebels in the Indian mutiny' was to bow them off g'nT
 And since a large number of Am erican papers are siding with Great Britain and France in this affair, shall permit myself to say that the thought of fine lynchings which occur daily in the United Sta\s and the memory of the water cures in the Philippines should make them chary 1 of attacking Turkey in connection with acts of savagery committed by 1 her under provocation compared with which the economic competition of an Italian or the sniping of a Fili- pino or even the outrage of a negro are as nothing.
 "Supposing, for the sake of argu- ment, what in reality never could hap Ipen, that the negroes were discovered to be engagd 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 ta'e?
 Great Britain and France have em- | parked upon a new campaign of provocation against Turkey, secretly hoping that as a result of it some thing untoward may happen in that country to confirm their sinister nre. dictions so that the United States | would be prevailed upon to dispa oh warships to the Leyant and thus get mixed in European fray on the all 'es' side, but I believe the administration to be too sagacious to fall into such vulgar trap.
 Besides, why should the United States, not one of whose citizens ever has suffered in Turkey, send war ships in the waters of that country with the result that it would only cause irritation against her and could under no circumstances act as check? Bombard Smyrna, Beruth, which are mostly inhabited by Chris tians? What of that And what more could she do? Nothing Bu, that wou'd be enough to mean war Do the people of the United States want war;"
 "The new British move against Turkey is clumsy. It will not cause the United States to modify it's atti- tude. But it has called forth the fol- lowing telegram from New York to the Turkish embassy:
 eff Turkey goes to war against England fine Hindoes and Mussulmans in India and elsewhere will support her in every way. Thousands of volunteers ready. (Siened
 Rhayankar, Gadar National volun. teers.
 "'57 East 200th Street."
 
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