The Literary digest history of the world war, compiled from original and contemporary sources: American, British, French, German, and others . tantinople, where they passedinto the hands of the Turkish Government, and began thatdisturbance in the diplomaticrelations of the Porte whichended in war. The reason Turkey gave forher attack at Odessa was thatthe Russians had been layingmines in the Bosporus.^^ Inthe attack the Russian mine-layer Pri^f, carrying 700 mines,was sunk by a Turkish , the strongholdwhich in the Crimean Warmore than a half century ago,had held out for nearl
The Literary digest history of the world war, compiled from original and contemporary sources: American, British, French, German, and others . tantinople, where they passedinto the hands of the Turkish Government, and began thatdisturbance in the diplomaticrelations of the Porte whichended in war. The reason Turkey gave forher attack at Odessa was thatthe Russians had been layingmines in the Bosporus.^^ Inthe attack the Russian mine-layer Pri^f, carrying 700 mines,was sunk by a Turkish , the strongholdwhich in the Crimean Warmore than a half century ago,had held out for nearly a yearagainst French, Turkish, andEnglish forces, was thenshelled by one of the Turkishvessels, and the Breslau ap-peared before Theodosie, aCrimean seaport, and threwshells into the town, damagingihe cathedral, bank, and railroad station. On the same daythe Turkish cruiser Hamidie appeared before the port ofNovorossisk, on the northeast coast of the Black Sea, andbombarded it for three hours. It was thought that a land campaign by the Turks would 1^ Frequently misspelled Bosphorus. The word is from the Greek ious, ox,and poros, Enveu Pasha The Turkish Minister of War, who has been held chiefly responsible for the Armenian massacres 199 OUTBREAK AND CAUSES now be directed toward Egypt, which was still nominallyunder the suzerainty of the Sultan, altho actually a partof the British Empire. Turkish cavalry were said to beconcentrated at the head of the Gulf of Akabah, which isseparated from the Gulf of Suez by the Sinai thousand Bedouins were said to have crossed theEgyptian boundary. Turkey was known to be able to putinto the field from 500,000 to 800,000 troops, but they wereindifferently trained and imperfectly equipped. GreatBritain and France several weeks afterward, on November5, declared war on Turkey. The British proclamation wasas follows: ^^ Owing to hostile acts committed by Turkish forces underGerman officers a state of war exists between Grea
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