Ogden Daily Standard | 1914-11-20 | Page 12 | No Thought of War with Turk

NO THOUGHT OF WAR WITH TURK Washington, Nov 19. President Wilson conferred tonight with Secretary Sec-retary Daniels of the navy department nnd Acting Secretary Lansing of the state department on the situation produced pro-duced by the firing of Turkish land forces on the launch of the American cruiser Tennessee at Smyrna, Asia Minor The president summoned the two secretaries to learn if there had been any word from Turkey shedding light on the reasons for the. firing but found that neither the cables nor the wireless wire-less had yielded a syllable of information. infor-mation. The European war has practically prac-tically paralyzed cable communication to Asia Minor and such messages as are received come by roundabout routes about five days late. j If there is continued delay it is probable that the American government govern-ment will ask the British admiralty i for the courtesy of its wireless in the Mediterranean to reach the American ships. The president and his cabinet are assuming that the shots fired at the American launch were merely a friendly warning giving the customary custom-ary notice that the port was mined. Even if the shots were fired with hostile hos-tile intent the Washington government govern-ment believes the Ottoman government govern-ment would render apology promptly for unauthorized acts of subordinate officials. In no quarter here is the incident or Its cnnsnojiencf s regnrded as seri-ou8, seri-ou8, for the United States has no quarrel quar-rel with Turkey. The American government is caring for Turkish subjects sub-jects and interests In France and then-' has been every evidence of friendliness in the relations between Washington and Constantinople. In the absence of definite information informa-tion the president is anxious to have the incident cleared up and is awaiting await-ing with much interest the arrival of messages explaining in detail Just what occurred. When tonight's conference ended both Secretary Daniels and Mr Lansing said no further inquiries had been directed to the American cruisers crui-sers or the American embassador it Constantinople, the talk being larp.y a detailed review of previous messages messa-ges covering the general situation in Turkey and Asia Minor.