The Archive · 1911

The Turkish Chamber

London, Oct. 20.

Telegrams from Constantinople state that the Chamber of Deputies, by 125 to 60, passed a vote of confidence in the Government's safeguarding Ottoman sovereignty in Tripoli and the integrity of the: Empire, after a speech by the Grand Vizi Pasha, in which] he claimed that the results of the Government's appeal to Europe were favourable, as would be seen later.

The Government had been reproached with not taking reprisals upon Italians in Tarkey, but he recalled how France had had to pay a heavy indemnity for her treatment of Germans in France.

He said that the Government would continue its policy of passive resistance, while persisting in diplomatic efforts to reach a settlement. He did not our the idea of ceding Tripoli in return for monetary compensation.—Reuter.

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