TURKEY'S PRETENSIONS IN EGYPT.
A GERMAN ATTACHES MISSION
United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph— Copyright. CAIRO, April 13. Riron Oppenlwim, an attache of the Gorman Diplomatic Agency ot Cairo, hAS gone to Syria on a so-called teientiiic mission. It is generally supposed ut Cairo, however, that hi , * mission is connected with tho Akbar i:. J dent. It is understood that Egypt firmly rejects Turkey's pretensions to territory. LONDON, April 13. Jt is believed in Germany that 'I'urkey is trying to re-open tho whole Egyptian question. [Tiie Porte bases its claim in regard to Tabah being in tho Akbar District, «nd therefore in Ottonwm teritory, on the cont-onto of tho Grand Vizier's telegram on tho occasion of tho Khedive s acoeission in 1892, but Groat Britain has in 1 ready refused to accept that view of tho position. In tho House of Commons recently, Sir Edward Grey, Secretary of State for Foreign Affaire, said that the Sinai Peninsula had for generations been recognised as under Egypt's admin istna(ion. Tho Turkish trespass at TabaJi could not be allowed to continue.]
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Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 12479, 16 April 1906, Page 7
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