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Show TURKISH GOVERNMENT MOBILIZING I MOHAMMEDANS TO JOIN GERMANS I Army of 200,000 With Seventy-two Superior German Officers Offi-cers From the Military Mission in Constantinople to j Participate in the War British Embassy in Wash- j ington Receives Word, Turkey Expected to De- j clare War Against Allies American Am- j bassador to Look After English Interests. j SUPREME STRUGGLE IS ON IN FRANCE I Censorship on All Military Operations Extremely Strict All Mention of War Progress Cut From Afternoon Papers in Paris Great Excitement in Capital Swarms of I Aeroplanes Circle the Sky in War Zone German Ger-man Supply Arrangements Broken Down j! and Men Eafing Horse Flesh. I Rome, Sept. I, via Paris, 1:20 p. m. A telegram re-ceived re-ceived in Rome from Berlin anounces the mobilization of the Turkish army. Following the advice of the Field Marshal Baron Von Der Goltz. it is stated, the Turkish government will form an army of the first line composed of 200,000 men, all Mohammedans. Seventy-two superior German officers, forming the Ger- 1 man military mission at Constantinople, have been incorporated incorpor-ated in the Turkish army and will participate in the war. The presence of the German officers in the army is in-J in-J terpreted to mean that Turkey will fight on the side of Ger-' Ger-' many. Washington, Sept. 1. The British embassy has been informed by a cable from London that German officers had gone to Constantinople to take charge of the Turkish army and that a declaration of war from Turkey was expected. Plans are already under way to ask the American ambassdor to Constantinople to take charge of British interests there. Washington, Sept. I The Turkish ambassador, A. Rus-tem Rus-tem Bey, expressed doubt today that the Turkish army was mobilizing and about to fight on the side of Germany. He said the Turkish army was mobilized three weeks ago. London, Sept. I, 5:15 p. m. A despatch received here from Ostend, says Independence, a local newspaper here, declares de-clares that the German governor of Brussels has ordered the expulsion of the British residents within 24 hours. The Englishmen Eng-lishmen have lodged a protest with Brand Whitlock. the American ambassador The Germans are fortifying the en- 1 virons of Brussels and they have transformed the cemetery i into a redoubt. |
