| Show rt SIA AND THE PORTE I I The Latter Blames the Kurds for Violation of the tha Frontiers j By Turks NEWS IS CONTRADICTORY to III lie hu to tl nil to to J n a I Situation p le AUK Aug Au Replying to tho the Persian complaints regarding re tho the thelast last two LYO violations Of f the frontiers by hy Turks tho thU porte bionics Ilia th Kurds hut but It K Is hI b certain that Turkish troops sup supported ported tho the J who as 1111 always committed great gret atrocities Persia will again to 10 England and to 10 Intervene ud put an all anto end nd to the tho dangerous situation News voIn tho Persian frontier Is contradictor but there ther Is no douht doubt the Incident in the tho Suj ills dis district of or a serious diameter The nl Turkish version states that the Officer commanding 1 a detach deluch mont of at men which had been ida sta stationed for tour four our months month at Mergo al all disputed l frontier town received Intuit Intelli Intelligence gence sonee that thit tho the Persian commander Saltana with regular troops 1 I mo Persian nud Ar Armenian Ar ulan revolutionaries re preparing I to an nn attack lie lIlt C 1 for tor cements and two battalions of or o Infantry and un one OliO battery of artillery vie wele sent train from Van Vun The Tho Persians made nude an nn attack but were repulsed with heavy losses particularly among tho the Armenians I j WililY many of or whom wore vero captured On the other hand the tho Version Persian ac account I count throws tile the entire responsibility f to the tin Turks luIks lI at atthe the head oC of 1200 1201 Infantry and cavalry was it is ji declared to 10 Tull In the neighborhood o 0 ot In order to 10 capture and tho murderers of at atan nn an American missionary some time ago 30 find and also 11 0 to chastise the numer numerous numerous ous Persian and Kurdish es established established in ii that vicinity While en encamped camped at nt Tull rull the tho Persian re received an un ultimatum from the Turkish who advanced Into Inlo Persian territory with four our battalions of ot regu regulars lars jars Severn several guns mounted Kurdish h Irregulars Irregular ordering him hint to evacuate his camp within three hours MI s Saltana la naked asked for tal an un extension l of ot tulle time In III order that he might con suit Milt with his 1318 government but 1111 nt at tho the expiration of ot the three hours tile the Turk Turkish TurkIsh ish lIl troops bombarded the forc forcing forcIn forcing ing In th thi Persians to retire I their thelt the time latter re 10 refrained from returning the tIre lire UreThe The dispute which threatens to as ns assume sumo sume grin grave proportions owing to the embittered relations between the tho th Stint Sunland and sects IB Is occupying the seri serious sen senous ous tt II of the tile porte porto anti aid diplo diplomatic matte matic circles The Tho Persian ambassador dor dol and amI nm had repented repeated Interviews with the Turkish foreign and both hoth M the tho ambassador and Sir Nicholas OConnor the British r addressed verbal venial to the tho porte urging tho the of tIlt the Ih troops from tram Persian territory Advices Teheran arO nr that the Turkish troops have havo not advanced tar far farther tarther ther tiler Into inic Persian territory The Time Kurds occupy Ol UP the of M Urmia so that the tho town IS cut off art from rain supplies and they tho have destroyed several more vII III ts sacking houses and killing the tile The Imperial ottoman embassy com corn communicates communicates the following SoniC papers In have recent recently ly h reported on the strength of ot tele telegrams I grams received receive from Teheran Im ha Imperial troops had trespassed cd on Persian territory near ilear Urmia and attacked tho Persian n army arm By being presented In III IIII I that hl the facts of ot this Incident are i wrongly exposed fr for knows that the tue Imperial government Is IH not j prompted by any nn attn aim nt at territorial extension and an It declares that tho the Im tin Imperial penal troops have not been teen the ns ng The sole object they have hn e In III vi viol vla w Is the th maintenance of order and 4 peace pae which bands from tram Persia are arc to Ui disturb The Incursions III ur of at such bands among mOn which tt a cois id number of or Ar Armenian tor 1 are arc to he be found 1 urn are repeatedly lo without the tile Per Perm Perin Peran m in taking any nn steps to 10 prevent them notwithstanding the tho most toast pressing representations of the tile government which lies has there thoro therefore I tore fore been heult compelled to put a stop to Incursions by military action This Is the which was rep I I by b the tho Persian government n nin nil as in 11 attack by b the thu Ih imperial troops while I these 1 hN merely do their duty dul by liy b watch watchIng log lag over th safeguard of the tile frontier I Mild the territory of It the empire |
