TURKISH AFFAIRS.
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BERLIN, August 28. Tho "National ' Zeitung )P declares that the Young Turkey movement has' increased King Edward's anxieties, and the English are beginning to realise that the efforts to hem Germany in have failed, also that French support is insufficient to reduce Germany to impotence. The paper warns .Russia against becoming England's catspaw. - This outburst of a leading .official organ occasions surprise, coming after the fine speeches on the occasion of Mr Lloyd Georee's visit.
CONSTANTINOPLE, August 28. The impression is gaining; ground that the fire at Stamboul is" the work of incendiaries.
The Armenian Patriarch of Ismirlian exiled in 1896 for protesting against massacres has returned to Constantinople. Fifty thousand people welcomed him back, including thousands of Moslems.
When Sir Gerard Lowther a - -\-irs in the streets the crowds cheer for England and Turkey.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume L, Issue 12145, 31 August 1908, Page 5
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