SECOND EDITION. CABLE NEWS.

Evening Post, Volume LXII, Issue 79, 30 September 1901, Page 6

SECO ND EDITION. CABLE NEWS.

[Br KLEOTBIO TELKOR.VPH. — COrTHIQHT.j * BRITISH INTERESTS IN THE PERBIAN GULF. THREATENED RUPTURE WITH TURKEY. A WARSHIP CLEARED FOR ACTION[rttESS ASSOCIATION.] LONDON, 28th September. The Bombay correspondent of Tho Times wires that Commandor Pears, of tho cruiser Perseus, enquired tho object of a Turkish vessel's visit to Koweyt, a port at tho head of tho Persian Gulf. Ho was informed that tho vessel had been instructed to land 500 troops there. Commander Pears udvisod the Turkish commander to return to Basra, but the vessel weighed anchor, entered the harbour, and prepared to land the troops. The Perseus was immediately cleared for action, and her searchlights were kept playing on the Turkish vessel's decks. In tho morning tho Turkish commander announced that he was returning to the pork of Fiu), near the Mnouth of the Euphrates (here called Shatl-el-Arab), in order to communicate with Constantinople. The vessel remains afc Fao. Meanwhile Edhom Pasha- i 9 massing troops at Basra, which is on the western alraro of the Shatt-el-Arab, fifty-aix miles from its mouth. Sheikh Maraboukh, who was concerned in the recent sanguimuy lighting in the intorior, recently declined tho request of tho Vali of Basra to discourage calls of British, warships and steamers. The Times says the Sheikh may count on British support.