Well, October 1 is the time limit and nothing has been done yet from bigs Inside, there seems to be a spirit of cock-sureness, a sort of bravado,—which breaks out every once in & while, On September 92, the Vali sent round & notice to the foreign post-offices to take down their boxes and Prepare to shut up and hand over their affairs to the Turkish Post Office on October 1. Two days later, the Marittima Italiana came in with a big mail, mostly for the British and French Post - Offices. The men in charge of the bags were met at the Port by officers, who insisted on the mail all being sent to the Turkish office for distribution. The men refused and carried all the mail back to the steamer, and it was not until the afternoon that the Italian Consul was able to have the bags of mail sent to their respective
at What do you make of Foreigners Leaving.
Last week Mr, Cumberbatch (the British Coneul-General at Beirut) reosived word from England that he would have to use extreme caution in dealing with Turkey, and he, acting on the information, has been advising all the married ladies, who are doing mission work in this country, to leave, All the British Syrian Mission have gone, and the Church Missionary Society as well. Mr. Marshall P. Fox, formerly in work in China, is sending his ladies from the Quaker Mission.
Dr. Torrenos, of Tiberias, has gone to Ecotland with his family. Dr. Scrimgeour, of Nazareth, will go as 800n as his two little boys can be moved. They have typhoid. Drs. Scrimgeour and Torrence are probably known by many in a China who have visited the Holy Evidently Mr" Camberbateh expects war. If there is really any truth in the report that Turkey means to strike Egypt first, it makes one believe more than ever in the old proverb, "Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad." And we can only hope that when retribution does set in it will be complete.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.