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I WAR Y ARS IN 1 I t Linked With German intellectual Dominated by Clique Intellectual Turl Turkey er Though Don a l ton Realizes It Is Paying the tie P Piper Iner and Foresees the Unbridgeable T r t- t Prussian Gulf Being ry at Heart Pro t B BY DR HARRY S IER Copyright 1918 1916 CHAPTER Continued VIII-Continued Continued from yesterday table in that fateful arue o of To Beor Beor Be Bo threw nil all their cards on the panic male Talaat and md when the Sl days were Here the Balkan war a n T recovered from the bloodshed of Not Kot to Be and ana brou brought iu brou-iu ht on their country scarcely yet or fronts The I he whole extending over o four and later Inter five fire sacrifice of her manhood lu in a war terrible and andrani t more new near US JHC ictor for Germany and md that was becoming d dt daily more result rani of this struggle gle for existence depended on final victory becoming Galicia Calicia doub doubtful ful in fact Ottoman troops troop had a at t last to be dispatched b by German orders to the Balkans and Turkey had lJ too to submit to the Ignominy of ot making friends with her hervery hervet and preventing imminent Imminent Imminent Im Im- vet cr very recent enem enemy pr m military III tan catastrophic catastrophe h by handing hand hand- handIn In ing over o the country countr along the Maritza right up to the gates of oC tho the sacred ell city of at to tho Bulgarians Sho had to look on while Armenia was conquered b by the thc Russians while Mesopotamia Mes Mes- and Syria In spite of Initial successes were threatened b by En English lish troops while the Hol Holy war came to toan toan toan an untimely end the thc most consecrated o of all Islam's hol holy places s Mecca fell away from Turkey the Arabs rab revolted and ld the tho Caliphate was shattered while her population In the ulterior Interior endured the most terrible sufferings and economic economic economic eco eco- and financial life tended slow slowly I and ami surel surely towards complete and hopeless hopeless hope hope- less Jess collapse the Piper Not even en yet et Indeed now no less than over ever I Is there an any general acceptance amon among the people o of the views held b by I En Enver er and Talaat and their acolytes Not ot yet ct do intelligent Independent men believe the fine phrases Phrases es of oC those thos minIons minions min mm- ions of oC the committee who are held heid In leading strings by these dictators partly through h gifts of or mone money office or the opportunity opportunity to enrich themselves es at the ex expense ex- ex pense of oC the people partly through fear of or the consequences should they revolt rc or of or those thos domestic servants themselves es deputies and sena sen sen- a tors On the contrary It Is Ig no exaggeration exaggeration to sa say that three quarters I of or orthe the lie Intelli Intelligent out-and-out out Turkish male population quite population quite apart from re Greeks an and Armenians Armenians- and practically the entire female population population pop pop- who are more sensitive about the war and whose hearts heart are arc touched more deeply b by Its Immeasurable suffering suffering suf suf- fering havo o either remained perfectly perfect perfect- ly ly- friendly to England and France or have become so again as-aln through terrible want and suffering The consciousness that Turk Turkey has committed an unbounded foIl folly ha has lona long lon a ago o been borne In upon wide circles of or Turks Turk In spite of ot falsified reports and anda a stringent ent censorship There would be beno beno beno no risk at all In taking on a wager that in private ate conversation con with ten separate Turks In no way no-way way wa- connected with tho Committee nine of them will ill admit as soon Boon as the they know there is ie no chance of ot betrayal that the they do not believe Turkey will win and that with the exception of the much feared Russia the they still stUl feel as friendly as ever towards their present present present pres pres- ent enemies Quoi quil arrive cst la Ia qui va payer le Ie pot casse Whatever er happens its it's f always s poor Turkey that'll have ha to pa pay the tho piper and ous avons fait alt une grando rando gaffe We Ye have hn put our foot root in It were the kind of or remarks made In er e every single le political discussion sion I 1 ever had In Constantinople even Constantinople even with Turks Turk Germany In n ham t. t So much for the men who judge with their thell reason What hat of or the tho women The one sigh of cultured Turkish women up to the hl highest hest In the land land land- who should have a golden book bool written written written writ writ- ten In their honor for COr their readiness to help their sympathy and humanity In this thle war Is war Is When shall shan we get s-et rid of or the Boches noches when whoa will 1111 our good old friends the En English lish and the French come back to us Nice Nico results result these of ot German propaganda German culture culture culture cul cul- ture Gt German brotherhood of ot arms arms' arms What hat a sad and shameful sha stor story for tor a aGerman aGerman aGerman German to have to tell ten Naturally the drastic system of or the tWe military dictatorship dictatorship dictator dictator- I ship precludes the public expression of or such feelings but one needs only to I have seen with ones one's own eyes es the looks so often oCten cast by even en re real l Turkish Turkish Turkish Turk Turk- ish cultured society at the German who often orten marched In close formation through the streets of ot Constantinople for Constantinople Cor for a time lime the they used to sing German Gelman soldiers soldiers' songs until that was prohibited at the express wish of or the Turkish government gO to see ho how the land lies There Thereas was as a marked and Ill con contrast in the coldness shown to Imperial German officers and the lavish affection showered on the Austrians Austrians Austrians Aus- Aus and Hungarians who nho used for Cor a time often orten to pass through h Constantinople Constantinople Constantinople Constanti Constanti- nople on their wa way to the Dardanelles or Anatolia with their hea heavy artillery They were a great deal more sociable than their German comrades an and one ono could not fail to note the significance I of ot such freely treel voiced comments as I Nest co pas Us lIs sont les Jes I The Tire Austrians are delightful de de- arent aren't the they The Tho sight atIS of at ofus I I us IS Germans e especially the theer er very considerable considerable con con- German garrison stationed for or a time In the capital awakened In Inthe Inthe inthe the Turks however er much thc they recognize recognize rec rec- the military necessity for Cor their presence remarkable ideas about the future German of or Turkey and everyone c blamed Enver Pasha as the man re responsible for Germanys Germany's penetrating penetrating- thus far In Heart A Turk in a a. high official position i j i whose name I shall naturally not dl- dl j I even even went ent so far tar as to say to tome tome t I I me mc In nn an intimate personal discussion I we were having haYing one da day between friend and friend Wo YB Turks are and will ahva always g remain In spite of or the tho war ar pro-English pro and md pro-French pro so far as social and intellectual life lIe Is concerned and It would need twenty years of ot hard propaganda work vork on Germanys Germany's part quite different from her present m methods to change chang this point of or Ie view I i j I t I I I if It it ever er could be changed He lIe went wenton on to recall the time of ot the pro pro Eng English Eng Eng- lish Ush era and the enthusiastic that had taken place at the station when tho the horses were taken out of ot the English ambassadors ambassador's carriage e I was th there re myself he ho said and believe belle me me apart from tho tiro war heaps of oC us are arc at bottom still of ot the l' l same ame mind And nd rowing growing heated heated heated heat heat- ed he added What hat Is your embassy tell me me Is it really an embassy No o representation no Intimate in intercourse in- in o with us us or at best only with your our political a agents no personal charm nothing but brusque demands and a most humiliating economic economic economic eco eco- neglect of or the Turkish tion The English and the the French and even e the Russians would treat treal us quite differently This man Is no exception In his ideas He lie is a thorough h Young Youn Turk who through holds with the Committee thick and thin and has to thank th them m for a ver very pleasant billet but he lie is Is besides a n youngish sh man with modern French ideas and even cn the war cannot alter that It only onh needs the final collapse collapse col col- lapse e of ot the Central Power and then the breakdown of or the whole political system under the direction of or these Jingoistic jingoistic jingoistic jin Jin- who think the they can get set on without Europe and the Turks lurks will all ever every one of ot them be beas beas beas as thoroughly pro-English pro and pro- pro French as the they ever er were wre and will hate hat German with German Germany and everything fanatical hatred Gulf Loom TO Towards ards Hungary their blood relation relation relation rela rela- tion tle they will probably retain some friendliness in memory of or their alliance in the great war and the cause of oC Tu- Tu thc they will be quite indifferent to Bulgaria the they will lose their fear of Russia and come to an agreement with her but after alter the war there will be no bridging the gulf between Turkey and antI Germany German and if ir Germany German on the conI conclusion con con- elusion of or peace is allotted an any part partI of ot smaller Turkey b by the rest of or the European powers she he will have o to reckon for Cor man many a n long Jong year car with the theer er very chill chilly relations that will exist between between between be be- tween G Germans and anti Turks Even those who went heart an and soul into the war as a war of oC defense against Turkeys Turkey's powerful northern neighbor foresee that when peace is declared Turkey will so far Car as her enormous Indebtedness Indebted indebted- ness to Germany German permits rather throw her herself elf on the merc mercy of England and andi France and America and beg from them themI for reconstruct the capital necessary tion and for freeing them from the hated hated German Influence Influence Influence-an an aversion erslon which is already evident in hundreds of ot different ways Even en Germany I Is beginning to recognize the existence of this tendency which hand In hand with the jingoistic attempt to turkIC commercial commercial commercial com com- mercial 11 life e. e bodes ill III for tor German ac activity activity ac- ac tI lt In Turkey after aCter ie e war Continued Tomorrow |