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(Untitled), 08 Sep 1914

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 13/45/148-152

Scope and Contents

Letter from Admiral Arthur Limpus [Naval Adviser to the Turkish Government] to WSC [First Lord of the Admiralty], on the political and military situation in Turkey, stating that Constantinople [later Istanbul] was almost completely in German hands, listing new Turkish warships and commenting that ill-feeling against German control was rising. Limpus encloses a letter from a Lieutenant Hallifax, reporting a conversation with a Turkish officer on considerable resentment in the Turkish Navy against interference from German officers, and on the status of the [German cruiser] Goeben.

Dates

  • Creation: 08 Sep 1914

Conditions Governing Access

Open

Conditions Governing Use

Copyright: Copyright: not known

Extent

5 folio(s)

Language of Materials

English

External Documents

Bibliography

Published: Winston S Churchill : Companion Volume III, Part 1, pp.102-103

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