5 AUGUST 1911, Page 2

The Special Correspondent of the Times, who is writing articles

on "British Interests in the Persian Gulf," describes in Tuesday's paper serious and ominous aggressions by Turkey. Certain territory of the Sheikh of Koweyt has been occupied by Turkish troops in spite of the Treaty of /898, by which the Sheikh put himself under British protection. There is talk, moreover, of a Turkish expedition to reduce the Sheikh to submission to the Porte. This may be no more than talk, bat the same thing cannot be said of Turkish action against the Sheikh of Mubammerah. Vague charges were brought against this Sheikh, and before he had had an oppor- tunity to answer them the undefended village of Zain was shelled by a Turkish gunboat. The Sheikh's wife, who was in the village, died of fright.