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Show SULTAN WARNED TO APOLQGIZEOR FIGHT ULTIMATUM GIVEN TO TURKEY, DEMANDING EXPLANATION OF RECENT LOOTING. Two Previous Messages to Turkish Government Have Been Ignored, But Third One Must Be Answered or War Will Result. Washington. A virtual ultimatum was sent by the United States government govern-ment to Turkey, on June 25 demanding demand-ing an immediate and satisfactory explanation ex-planation of the Tabriz incident. There is strong reason to believe that failure on the part of Turkey to give favorable response will be followed follow-ed by a declaration of war on the part of this nation. The demand the third sent to the authorities in Constantinople since the I incident occurred was forwarded by ! Secretary of State Lansing through J the Swedish government. Sweden was bearer of one of the two previous com- j munications and Spain of the other. To neither of these previous messages has the Ottoman government paid the slightest attention. Message Is Urgent. "This message," declared an official j of the department, referring to the de- I niand, "means business." I The offense, for which an explana- I tion is demanded, is the action of the Turks at Tabriz in sacking the United States hospital. The United States j demands to know whether it was the outcome of irresponsible mobbing, fol- i lowed by the capture of Tabriz by the Turks. Officials made no effort to conceal ! their impatience over the failure of the Constantinople foreign office to pay I attention to the inquiries of this government's gov-ernment's demand, and it is admitted I that the relations between the two ' governments have never been more I strained than they are at the present moment. |