THE UNSPEAKABLE TURK AGAIN.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume LXIX, Issue 14285, 15 May 1915, Page 5

THE UNSPEAKABLE TURK AGAIN.

(High Commissioner's Cable.) LONDON, Friday

The Foreign Office has issued the following: The American Ambassador sent to the Foreign Secretary the following telegram from the Secretary of State at Washington:— .. . "The following cablegram has been received from the American representative at Constantinople: 'Minister of War told me that fleet and aeroplanes of Allies are bombarding and killing non-combatants at Gallipoli, and other unfortified places on the Peninsula. He has decided to send to those places French and British subjects from Constantinople, exposing them to the same danger; but he will delay taking this step until May 6th, to give time for the receipt of assurances and orders to discontinue such bombardment.'"

Sir Edward Grey requested the American Ambassador to inform the Ottoman Government that, if non-combatants were transported to those places, the British Government would hold Enver Pasha and the Ottoman Ministers personally responsible for any lives lost. The Turkish Minister of War replied that he had already given the order, and could not now countermand it without serious injury to army discipline. . , Twenty-six British and twenty-four French have now been shipped on a transport for Gallipoli, in accordance with' the threat.