Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 August 1909 — TURKEYAND GREECE TO FIGHT [ARTICLE]

TURKEYAND GREECE TO FIGHT

Seems to Be Only Possible Solution Over Cretan Trouble. London, Aug. 13.—The Daily Telegraph’s Constantinople correspondent says it is difficult to discover the influences under which the Turkish government is acting, but that In military quarters the talk is wholly of war with Greece. It is asserted that the ministers of war and marine insist that war is the only possible solution of the difficulty and that Mahmoud Schefket Pasha, the commander of the troops, has told the grand vizier that if the present situation is prolonged he will resign because it will be Impossible to calm the spirits of officers and men.