The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1914-11-04
GREAT BRITAIN
AND TURKEY At
WAR ALREADY
AFTER TWENTY-FoUR HOURS OF
UNCERTAINTY DURING WHICH
AMENDS WERE HOPED FOR THE
BRITISH WARsHIPs GET INTO
ACTION AGAINST TURKEYS
BARRACKS.
BY ASSOCIATED PRESS.


London, Nov. 3.-Great Britain and
Turkey are at war; Germany has re-
crutted an ally in the East. After
twenty -four houre Of uncertainty, dur
ing which time hope was expressed
that the porte might make amends
for the incidents in the Black Sea the
British admiralty announced shortly
before l o'clock this afternoon that a
British warship had bombarded and
had destroyed the Turkish barracks
at Akabah on the Turco- Egyptian
frontier.
It was at Akabah that Turkish cav
airy patrols Were reported yesterday
preparatory to moving into Egypt. The
British found soldiers there apparently
under Germans serving as quasi Turks
in the same manner as the German
officers remain in charge Of the cruis-
ers Breslau and Goeben and British
officials say there was no course out
to open hositilities.
Turkeys formal entrance into war
with the allies-for France cannot but
follow Great Britain, came at a time
when Turkish ambassadors still at
London and Paris were uncertain
what next was to come.
An apology from the grand vizter |
and doubt as to who held the whip |
hand in the sultan's government to-
gether with the attitude Of the Balkan |
states, were factors which blended, |
seemed to carry such weight as to !
make Turkey hesitate.
The London Press was ever concil- |
iatory in tone, hoping to the last that |
the matter would be adjusted. The |
newspapers maintained this tone not |
the posted Turkish activ- |
ity in Egypt. The British all along
have claimed that Germany was re-
sponsjble for the Turkey unrest and if |
it proves true that the Aka,bah garrison
was German or part German, the !
charge of a widespread conspiracy in
the east, Englishmen say, will seen to
be sustained.
The British admiralty statement con-
corning the engagement there, the first
Of the latest phase Of the great war,
was brief, not giving the extent of the
loss, but adding that there
were no British casualties.
This engagement doubtless will be
followed quickly by others in Egypt,
while the former German cruisers
7oeben and Breslau are likely soon to
De heard from in the Black Sea or else
where. Great Britain had anticipated
such a contingency and has made pre-
para tons to check an invasion of
Egypt.
Meanwhile it is announced that Ger
many has been pouring officers and
nen into Turkey Many of them speak
Turkish and will command Turkish
attachments equipped with modern
weapons which the Germans are said
o have supplied.
A dispatch reaching London today
rom Constantinople says that several Z
hundred more German off1cirs have {
ust arrived there. A majority Of them
t is asserted, are familiar with the :
Turkish language, having been en- I
lloyed at the Ottoman capital before.
While these developments are breaking !
n the east the Germans relentlessly
re maintaining pressure on the allies.
London, Nov 3.--An imperial mani
este on the outbreak Of the war with
Turkey has been issued in Petrograd,
according to the cores ondent Of
Reuters Telegram Company, in the I
russian capital. It reads as follows:
I'm the sterile struggle against Rus
Ia, Germany and Austria have melted {
turkey into taking arms against this
mpire Immediately after the treach-
rous attack of the Turkish fleet the {
russian ambassador received orders to
cave Turkey.
Russia will receive this fresh ag- '
ression on the part of the ancient
lersecutor Of the Christian religion and
he Slav people with tranquility and
onfdence in God. The valiant armies
f Russia will triumph once again
lot for the first time over the Turkish
ordes. Once again we will know bow |
O punish the insolent foe of our
atherland. '