A BLUFF THAT DID NOT COME OFF
BRITISH CRUISER OFF ALEXANDRETTA. ENGLISH AT DAMASCUS TPxREATENED WITH DEATH. (TIMES AND SYDNEY SON SERVICES.) (Received January 27, 8 a.m.) LONDON, 26th January. ,When news reached Damascus that a British cruiser was threatening the railway at Alexandetta, all the British residents in Damascus were imprisoned and compelled to sign telegrams to the captain of the cruiser stating that the British would be shot if anjr Moslems were killed by bombardment. *" The captain retorted th«it he would hold Djimel Pasha personally responsible for any harm to the Britishers, who were thereupon released. fAlexandretta is the port of Aleppo, on the Gulf of Scanderoon, in the northeast angle of the Levant. It is the terminus of a branch of the Bagdad railway.] »i
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Evening Post, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 22, 27 January 1915, Page 7
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128A BLUFF THAT DID NOT COME OFF Evening Post, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 22, 27 January 1915, Page 7
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