36087-1914-Statement-concerning-relations-with-Turkey — Page 1

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Vol. LX.

The Hongkong Government Gazette

Extraordinary.

Published by Authority.

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1914.

The following Notification is published,

By command,

CLAUD SEVERN,

Colonial Secretary.

NOTICES.

COLONIAL SECRETARY'S DEpartment,

No. 422. The following statement concerning relations with Turkey is published by direction of His Majesty's Government.

CLAUD SEVERN,

Colonial Secretary.

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2nd November, 1914.

The attitude adopted by the Turkish Government in regard to the German Men-of-War Goeben and Breslau aroused great misgiving in London, Paris and St. Petersburg. These ships were flying from the French and British Fleets in the Mediterranean and took refuge in the Dardanelles where by the rules of international law and under Turkish treaties they should have been laid up by the Turkish Government and their crews detained until the close of the war, or made to leave for the open sea at the end of twenty-four hours.