TURKEY AND THE INDIAN TROOPS.

Evening Post, Volume LXXXVIII, Issue 82, 3 October 1914, Page 8

TURKEY AND THE INDIAN TROOPS.

Again it is cabled that Turkey will, 1 flout, and even fight, the Entente. For Britain and France, with their Mohammedan peoples, such a war would be an embarrassment, but for Turkey it would be a disaster. Even the Young Turks i should be able to see this in time, and [ avert it, • Quite some time ago it was cabled from London that the white and coloured troops from India, had arrived, A long silence on the subject followed. Now ] Paris announces that "the first contin- , gent of Indian troops have landed ab 1 Marseilles." This information, at any fate, should be true. The tired Germans J north of the Aisne will presently have ' no doubts on the subject. Perhaps the i arrival of the Mohammedan Indians will ' ccKvince Turkey that she has nothing to I gain by joining the wrong side. ! At sea, another British ship has been

sunk by one of the German cruisers formerly based on Kiao-chau. This time the destroyer is the Leipzig, , which is operating in the Pacific, and landed the crew in tha South wort of Callao. > r The Austrian mines that sunk an Italian ship in the Adriatic gave rise to a protest by Rome to Vienna. Vienna expresses regret and promises to remove the menace. What would happen if Denmark or Holland made a similar protest to Germany? The only difference is that Austria fears Italy, and Germany (at present) does not fear Denmark or Holland. But a hostile Denmark might, all the same, be bad business for Germany. A British army landed in the Danish peninsula could strike at" the heart of the Kaiser's Empire.