THE PROCLAMATIONS CONTRASTED.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XVIII, Issue XVIII, 22 October 1912, Page 8

THE PROCLAMATIONS CONTRASTED.

SULTAN'S MESSAGE TO HIS

TROOPS

KING PETER'S MANIFESTO

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(Received Oct. 22, 11 a.m.) I CONSTANTINOPLE, Oct. 21. Turkish opinion deprecates the proclamations of the Czar of Bulgaria and the King of Servia as emphasising a struggle of the Cross against the Crescent, and contrasts these proclamations with the Sultan's proclamation, wherem .the latter states that the motive of the war is political and not religious, and exhorts the Ottoman soldiers to remember that their opponents are men deluded by vainglorious, ambitions. VIENNA,1 Oct. 21. The journal Die Zeit describes King Peter's manifesto as grave and significant, and says that it indicates that not merely Turkish misrule but also European diplomacy shoud be held blameable for the war, firstly for want of timely intervention, and secondly for indilence in dealing with Turkey. Every effort, it urges, must be made to coerce Turkey into treating non-Turkish races ai> human beings.