BRITAIN AND TURKEY.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXV, Issue 14060, 15 May 1906, Page 7

BRITAIN AND TURKEY.

THE TABAH INCIDENT. TURKEY’S UNCONDITIONAL SUB- , MISSION. United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON, May 13. Turkey apparently yielded unconditionally on Saturday afternoon, otherwise Lemnos and Mytilene would have been seized. Izzot Bey, a Pan-Islamite, and author of the Mecca Railway, was the instigator of the Tabah policy. Advices from Constantinople state that the undisguised satisfaction there that a rupture has been averted proves that the Tabah policy had few supporters. The Tabah garrison has been withdrawn, by order of the Sultan. , THE LESSONS OF THE INCIDENT. LONDON, May 14. The “Times” assumes that the Porte will hasten to recall Mukhtar Pasha. “The incident,” it says, “ should convince the Sultan that our determination to preserve the safety of the Canal and Egypt is immutable. The incident should bo useful to ourselves, revealing the true objects of the railway policy instigated by German military advisers and prosecuted according to German plans with German assistance, financial and otherwise. It will be our fault if we allow the execution of strategic designs against us under the cloak of the promotion of Moslemism.” THE SULTAN’S EQUIVOCATION. . BRITISH FLEET? READY FOR IMMEDIATE ACTION. (Received May 15, 1.16 aim.) LONDON, May 14. The Sultan, in agreeing to -withdraw freon Tabah, declared that the status quo ante had been restored. This was regarded as insufficient, and an explanation followed which, according to .the “Morning Post,” is satisfactory. The “Daily Mail” states that the Sultan tried to secure demarcation by Turks and Egyptians. The “ Daily Telegraph’s ” Constantinople correspondent states that the Sultan was practically alone in resisting delimitation by an Anglc-Turkish Commission. He considered Egypt a vassal State, and that there could be no frontier. He argued that originally he confided Sinai to the Khedive’s personal administration. The “ Daily Mail ” states that Britain intended to shell the forts at the .entrance to the Dardanelles. Information from other, sources makes it still uncertain whether the Porte’s submission is unequivocal. The Athens correspondent of the “Times” says that at best dilatory tactics have been renewed. The fleet remains under steam at Phalerum, ready for immediate action if necessary.