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MOSLEMS THREATENING WAR ON
CHRISTIANS
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Demonstrations at Damascus
Invasion of Egypt Is Feared
October 31, 1914
By Marcony Transatlantic Wirless Telegraph to The New York
Times.
CONSTANTINOPLE, Oct.30,-- Sir Louis Mallet , the British Ambassador,
has called the attention of the Grand Vizier to reports of an intended Bedouin
raid into Egyptian territory. He warned the Vizier that such a raid would be
regarded as a hostile act on the part of Turkey by the British Government.
LONDON, Saturday, Oct, 31.-- There have been great manifestation at Damascus,
Asiatic Turkey in favor of a war against Christians, and especially against
Great Britain, according to a dispatch to the Exchange Telegraph Company from
Athens. The massing of Bedouins along the Egyptian frontier, the dispatch adds,
is being continued. Strong Turkish cavalry divisions are said to have arrived in
the neighborhood of the gulf of Akabah on the Red sea about 200 miles south of
the Suez Canal. This news contained in a Cairo dispatch received in Vienna, and
forwarded to London by the correspondent at Amsterdam of the Central News
Agency.
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