Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 October 1901 — ANGLO-TURKISH CRISIS. [ARTICLE]

ANGLO-TURKISH CRISIS.

Troops Under General Edhem Pasha Are Missing at Basra. A dispatch to the London Times from Bombay gives the following additional details regarding an alleged Anglo-Turkish crisis in southern Asia. According to these latest dispatches the Turks again attempted to land troops at Koweit. The British cruiser Perseus, noticing the movements of a Turkish vessel, steamed up and demanded the object of the visit The reply was that the vessel had been instructed to land 500 men. The commander of the Perseus advised the Turkish commander to return to Busra. The Turkish vessel instead of doing this, entered the haroor and prepared to land the troops. The Perseus cleared decks for action and played her searchlight on the Turk all night In the morning the Turkish commander visited the Perseus and intimated his intention of returning to Fao and telegraphing to Constantinople for instructions. The vessel went to Fao and is still there. Meantime Turkish troops are massing at Busra and are reported to be under command of Edhem Pasha. • The Sheikh Mabourkh reports that the vali of Busra has asked him to discourage the calls of British warships and mail steamers. He has refused to do so. A British protectorate has not yet been established. A British naval force is concentrating in the Persian gulf. Three warships are already on the spot and they will be augmented by the gunboat Assaye, which has already left Kurrachee, and the flagship, the secondclass cruiser Highflyer. The thirdclass cruiser Pomone will also sail for the Persian gulf so soon as she has coaled at Bombay. It is believed that fresh trouble is Impending at Koweyt. According to a report, Turkey has 30,000 troops at Basra (on the Shat-El-Arab, seventy miles from its mouth in the Persian gulf), commanded by Edhem Pasha, with the object of seizing Koweyt though the Turks assert that the troops are intended to traverse Arabia with the object of suppressing disaffection in Yemen.