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Show FRENCH HALT NEW DRIVE United States May Declare War at Once On the Ottoman Empire TURKISH OUTRAGE Oil I). . American Hospital Sacked and Two Consulates Con-sulates Seized. ACTS OF WAR 'it Prompt Action by United States If Report Confirmed. WASHINGTON, June 19 Sackins? ! of the American hospital at Tabriz, Persia, and seizure of the American and British consulates thcieby invad-I invad-I in ; Turkish troops was reported to the state department today by the American minister at Teheran. If the report as it reached the minister min-ister is officially confirmed, the outrages out-rages may be considered an act of war and settle the long pending qucstlca of whether the Ottoman allies of Oer-mary Oer-mary should be formally listed among America r enemies. Accoidlng to today's dispatch, the Turks sacked the 1 ospltal over r.he I protest of the Spanish consul, in j charge as representative of Amen-can Amen-can interests and In defiance of tho Spanish flag flying over the building. The hospital at Tabriz is a Presbyterian Presby-terian missionary institution established estab-lished several years ago. Many Am-, Am-, erican doctors and nurses have been stationed thre. but for several months the niuarion bas been so serious that the force has been grea'.ly reduced and l a few days ago it was reported to thy stat9 department that the last American Ameri-can had gene. There have been vigorous demands in congress from time to time for lec-larations lec-larations of a state of war bc'ween the United States and Turkey and Bulgaria. Bul-garia. President Wilson and the state department, however, have n it re-I re-I guided tbis step a? necessary or desirable. desir-able. oo i |