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Show I. HUSTEM BE! ' EXPLAINS HIS ; UTTERANCES 1 Turkish Embassador Re sponds to Secretary Bry- an's Inquiry Regarding h Recent Statement ENVOY ADMITS HE MADE THE REMARKS Pleads Exigencies of Occa t sion as Excuse for His Of j fense, Incident Will Probably Be Closed "WASHINGTON' Sept 11 Pres dent "Wilson early today wrote Secretary Bryan to nquire of A Eastern Bey the Turkish embassador if a recently published statement attributed to him was authent c The embassador had a Jong conference with Mr Bryan at the state department after wh ch the sec retary conferred w th the pres dent The embassador it is understood, ex pa ned that the statement as published was accurate but was ntended in no nay to reflect on the Un ted States government It was understood that with th s explanat on the inc dent w 11 be closed. Dump the day there had been pub f 1 shed reports to the effect that the re call of the embassador might be sought bv the "Washington government but becretary Bryan said such reports were entirely without author ty I Late tonight the embassador author lzed the followrbg statement In the presence of the importance g yen to the statement made by me a few davs back and ar s ng out of the rumors sedulously d ssemi nated n the to ted States that a general massacre of Chr stians was preparat on n Turkey it mav ser e a good purpose to expla n that accord ng to me a great re sponsblty rests at the present moment on the press of the Un ted States espec ally in regard to Tur kev where the s tuat on s natu rallv a very stra ned one For j ears past the newspapers of ths country have indulged in M nd host 1 tv towajd Turkey Ths 'was comparatively unmportant so far But today the unfa mess of th s attitude may cause ser ous mischief Gives Reason In the absence of all "strctive clauses in the press laws of the TJn ted States in regard Ml treatment of f ore gn countries I adoDted the only coure a a laoie fo nduce the tinted States press I" il - nro spr OUS V ew 01 15 relationsn p to Turkey-that of a stra ghtforward appeal to t . in wh ch I po ntedly ment oned some of the thPngs that happened in the United States which should not happen in v ew of nduc ng t . to deal more char tably w th Turkey I am f rmly conv need that A was morally f not convent onallv Sit m adopting th s course There are t mes and this s one of them when convent ons can must be Tet as de The nterests of human ty should not be sacrificed to them Charges Made The embassador s statement which underwent the scrutiny of off Icials . ana caused the inquiry charged first that ftrear Br ta n was attempting to araw it tTnVted States into the European war by ask nr that Amer can war sh ps go to Turkey England he said was ag tat ng before the eyes of the United S?atef the specter of a massacre of Chr st ans He explained that while there had been some massacres n Tm-kev the loetims suffered not as W-Wu pol tical ag tators en gaged in underm n ng the Ottoman State He spoke of the acts of other fore gn peopled under pro ocation men-t men-t onmg Russ a and then sa d And s nee a large number of Amen can papers are . d ng w th Great .Brit an and France in ths affair I will permit myself to say that the thought of lynching which occur daily n the Tinted States and the memory of the water cures n the Philippines shou d make them chary of attacking Turkey in connect on w th acts of savagery com m tted by her under provocat on com pared with wh ch the econom c com pet t on of an Ital an or the sniping of a Filipino or even the outrage of a neo are as noth nr Suppo-lng for the sake of argument wha in reality never could happen that the negroes wee d sco ered to be engaged in a consp racy w th the Japanese to fa ll tate the invasion of the United States by the latter how many of them would be left alive to tell the talet Thn nhnve DaraCTaDh caused consid erable d scussion n d plomatic and of ficial c rcles but the del caoy of the present European s tuation it is known Fed the president and Secretary Bryan to the conclusion that what might be regarded as an indiscreet statement in t me of peace could be ignored at pres ent on account of the cnt cal situation produced by the European war |