| Show ROM lUOM I l TO Tn COMEDY CO The denouement In the Magelssen case shows that what might have havo been Joen beena n a great tragedy Is hi nothing but a come comedy comedy dy d And happy the change Through an nn error In translating the cipher die dis dispatch patch telling of ot an nn attempt upon the tho life ot of the American vice consul at Beirut It was las made to 10 read that ho had been licen assassinated Had not the tho error In the tho translation been discovered to so sosoon soon It would hove have h e been found out In time to avert any nil serious consequences for tor upon the arrival of at a 1 squadron at nt Beirut the tho fact tact that Consul Magelssen IM and unharmed Would toon soon have been bren Suede made known While o a most grave Incident his has Ink tak taken en on a very ory happy turn turns thus l serious differences tence With a n friendly pow power power er or still tl tim tho tact fact remains that an nn at Qt attempt attempt tempt was Willi made madu fJ upon tho tio vice vleo consuls life lite That H It lIll not succeed Is 19 no 00 fault of ot tho the assaSsin hl Had his aim been equal actual to his lila Intentions tho the consul would now be a n dead doot man mait manIt It shows Il a s r state of ot affairs and because It tt Is III i 06 SO I serious the President will not hot depart d part from the plans platis that have hava been lc n formed Cormell The Tho European l squadron n will proceed to Beirut This Is and nd cannot tall fall to havo have u n salu salutary salutary tary tory effect t on all tho the Porte It will demon lemon demonstrate strate to It U that American consuls and also 10 must havo have every protection protection tion afforded them The Magelssen Incident may be a n blessing In disguise In averting n a great disaster ler Heretofore Beirut has not been con alderd tJ as IS within tho tue sphere ot of Insurrectionary banco But It has haM hn been beell proven to be bo and ani must bo be treat treated treated ed accordingly Tho The fact should be bo recognized that Turkey Is U honey honeycombed honeycombed combed with Insurrection In anti and revolution tim lion and ond if It It Is 18 not nol tho the consequences con may be serious lint Hut what ot of the legation clerk cleric who rondo made the tho monumental blun blunder blunder der In transmitting the cipher dispatch ills His error already has hall been boa very ery ex cx expensive pensive and had It not been discovered d dearly early might hare havo resulted re In most serious consequences As a translator hits his occupation should be bo gono gone and nil probably will be beTho beThe beThe The Tho moral of the tho case seems to tD bo be beTo boTo boTo To avoid errors In translation tho the translation repeated |
