MOTIVE OF THE WAR.
RELIGIOUS OR POLITICAL ?
THE TURKISH VIEW
Constantinople, October 21. Turkish .opinion deprecates King Ferdinand's and King Peter's proclamations in which they state that the struggle in the Balkans is between the Cross and the Crescent. The Turks contrast these manifestos with the Sultan's proclamation wherein lie states that the motive of the war is political and not religious, and exhorts Ottoman soldiers to remember that their opponents are men deluded by vainglorious and . ambitious rulers.
Ferdinand 1., King of Bulgaria, in his manifesto to his subject,?, declared that the war had been begun in order to protect the human right of Christians in Turkey. He added :—" In the. struggle of the Cross against the Crescent, of liberty against tyranny, we are assured of the sympathies of all lovers of justice and progress"
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 15131, 23 October 1912, Page 7
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