| Show I TWO WAR YEARS IN I CONSTANTINOPLE I. I 1 By Dr Harry HarTY i Copyright 1918 I J t I MERCILESS FATE ell CHAPTER APTER IX Continued Irom y 0 one of course would ever think of N NO setting It down dO as a black mark rk against Talaat zor lor example that ho had to work work his way 1 up to his present supreme position Mom the theer er very modest occupation of or postman and postal coach conductor on the A road via telegraph assistant and other branches of or the postoffice on the contrary such Intelligence ence and energy y arc aro worth worthy of oC the highest praise But case Is a comparatively good bood one and It Is social origin not hot so 80 mu h Ii their low that Is a to these political I leaders of ot Turkey lurler as their complete lack of oC education In statesmanship and history which unfits them for tor the high role thc they are called upon to fill Naturally It Is not exactly pleasant when a man like Herr Paul Weitz th the I correspondent of the Frankfurter Zel- Zel tun tung and a political agent can boast with a certain amount of ot justification I I that he has given tips of or mone money to toman members of or th the tho man many of or the present I In Committee in the tho real sense of or the tha word not In the political meaning of ot It is no wonder then that German Influence won its wa Va way through so easily casU Senses Sense HI II Ov Own n Guilt lowly origin In Is a Even en yet cl origin drawback to him socially and In spite of his Jovial manner and his complete confidence in his own powers he sometimes sometimes sometimes some some- times feels himself so unsure that he no rather avoids social duties Probably one of oC the tue reasons of or his long delay In vizier hc vizier he accepting the post of or grand was already definitely marked out for lor forit forit lorit it in the summer of or 1915 Was InS was his own Inner consciousness that his whole past life unfitted him socially for the duties of such uch an office That he has now decided to accept It is only the logical log sequence of or th the system of or absolute which with its plan or of I muzzling and supplanting all non- non Turkish elements had of or course to get rid of or the Egyptian element clement clementIn In tho the government represented b by Prince Frince Hallm Said the late Grand Izar and his brother the late lat minister of public works There are arc far tar more outstanding cases of oC incompatibility between so social so o ocia cial cia I upbringing and antI present activity among the committee I will simp simply take the single example of or the director director director tor general of or the tho press Be Boy Bey l Pera still gives sl him hini the nickname of ot milkman be because Je be- cause cause although although It is no reproach to him any Ul more than in case CaSe CaSe- he still kept his fathers father's milk shop In Inthe Inthe Inthe the Rue Bashi in Pera before he managed to get himself launched on a apolitical apolitical apolitical political career b by close adherence to the committee Sometimes of oC course courle one inherits from a a. low social origin f far r worse things than social inferior inferior- It ity Perhaps Pa Pashas Pasha's has murderous murder murder- ous instincts are to bo be traced to the fact that his grandfather wa was wag the of official official ot- ot hangman in the service of Sultan Sultan Sultan Sul Sul Sul- tan Mahmud and that his father tathel still retained the tho nickname of ot hangman n namon amon among the people Vile Rule nule One on only needs to cast a I. I glanco glance at l atthe atthe the Youn Young Turks who are aro the leaders of or fashion In the Club de Constantinople Constanti Constanti- nople nople after the English and French members are absent with absent with German of officers officers of- of who have been heen admitted as temporary temporary tem tem- members at a reduced subscription tion and one will find there as in the themore themore themore more exclusive c Cercle and andIn andIn andi i In the Yachting club In i GRIPS TURKEY In tho summer Bummer time individuals belonging belonging be be- longing to the committee whose lowI lowly lowly low low- I ly origin and bad ball manners are arc evident evi 1 dent at the first glance Talaat who is himself president of or the tho club chub knows s exact exactly how to get bet his adherents elected elect ed as members without one of or them thorn being lIed blackballed People who u used d not notto notto notto to know what an International club was and who perhaps In accordance with their former social status got gotas gotas ot otas as far tar as tho the vestibule to speak spank I Ito to the the have e Concierge e with the mone money they and h tho the amas amassed In iii clique trade by I famous system of ot requisitions to play poker pol e cr every evening e for stakes of or hundreds hundreds hun bun of or Turkish pounds One single kaleidoscopic glance into the tho perpetual whirl of an any one of oC these clubs which used to be places of or friendly social In InI Intercourse Intercourse In- In for tor the bc best t European cirdes cir cir- I des cles Is quite sufficient to see the class of degenerate greedy greed parvenus that rule poor bleeding helpless Tur Tur- ke key One cannot but be filled with a adeep adeep l deep sympathy for tor this unfortunate landI land I cli Turks Turk 1 1 u tel The Tho Turks of or decent birth are ale disgusted disgusted dis dis- gusted at these parvenus I have o had conversations con with man many an ln old Pasha antI and senator true representatives of ot the refined and kindly Old Turkish aristocracy and heard man many a word of or stern disapproval of oC the tho committee quite apart from their er dl divergent ent political poli opinions There Is a whole distinguished dis dis- Turkish world in Constantinople Constan Constan- who completely boycott Enver er and his consorts socially although they thep have to put up with their caprIces caprices caprices cap cap- rices politically I r dont don't know Enver at all or Jo Jc ne pas ces gens la I dont don't know people are phrases phrase that one very cry often oCten hears henrs repeated with infinite disdain In all these cases It Is tho the purely pUrel personal side side birth birth and manners that manners that repels them Socially the cleft between the two camps Is far tal deeper than It Is politically politically cally for man many of or these same people accommodate themselves though with reluctance in their heart to sharing at t least formally as ag senators In the re responsibility Ie for tor the time present Young Turkish policy They have havo to do so gO for tor otherwise otherwise- the they would simply be flung mercilessly b by Enver's clique onto on onto onto to time the streets to beg beJ for tor bread blead This I la ho how It comes come about today toda that with ver very few exceptions the se senators who to tell the truth have as little practical praCtical cal say ay a as the members of tho the lower lowerhouse lowerhouse house are arc nil all outwardly complaisant followers of or the committee The Thc Themore more doctrinal but at an any rate coura courageous courageous cour cour- a ageous and honorable opposition to Ahmed Itiza Is likewise of ot ver very little tittle significance Once about the tho middle of or December 1916 Enver even went so far tal as to hurl the thc epithet shameless dog at Ahmed JUza In the senate without without without with with- out being called to order b by the president dent The deputies are arc also with even en fewer exceptions than titan the senators only one or two are arc reasonable m men men men- n- n all slaves pure and simple of or Enver and Talaat The Thc lower house Is nothing nothing noth noth- In ing but a set of ot paid by Jy the clique In other countries now at warthe warthe war warthe the lower house ma may have havo sunk to the level lC of or a Inu stock laughing in Turkey It has become becom the instrument of or crime And it is these same toadies and parasites para pnra- sites who dall dally daily carry out this military dictators dictator's will in parliament that he dally daily treats with scarcely veiled yelled Iron Irony and open and complete disdain These are arc the representatives of the time peo people le leIn In Turkey in wartime X We Ye have come to the end of or our sketches The question before beCore u us s now Is Is- Is What will become of or Turkey The entente has formal sentence sentence sen sen- tence tene of oC death on the empire of or th the sultan and azal neither the slowly fading military power of Turkey nor nor the tho hem help hell of or Germany German who ho Is herself already alread virtually conquered will win be able to arret arret ar- ar lC ret t h her r fate On the high frost bound uplands of oC Armenia the Russians hold a strate strategic lc position from which It Is Impossible to dislodge them and which will probably probably abl ably very soon extend to the thc Gulf GuU of or In InIe Mesopotamia Ie after that enormously important political event the fall of or n Bagdad the union was sas effected between the British troops I and the Rus Russians lans advancing advancing- steadily from Persia The Thc Suez canal Is no now no longer threatened and the time British troops have been removed remo from there for tor a offensive counter In southern Palestine and probably when the thc ps psychological al moment arrives arrles es an of otense ot- ot ens e against Syria po pow so 10 sadly shattered politically it is quite within the bounds of or possibility too that dUrIn during dur dUr- In ing this war ar a big new front ma may be formed In western Anatolia ma may be completely broken up b by the Pan- Pan Hellenic and the Turks will be hard put to It to find troops to meet the ne new offensive e Arabia i 10 li finally and absolutely lost and Eng Iland land b by establishing an nn Arabian Caliphate has already alread won the war against ag Turkey Meantime l on the far battlefields of ot Galicia and the thc Balkans whole hole Ottoman divisions are arc pouring out their life blood rl fighting for or that elusive German victory Ictor that never comes an any nearer while white In every en nook and corner of ot their own land there thero I Is Isa isa a l terrible lack of troops Enver Pa Pasha ha at length th grown rown anxious has attempted attempt attempt- ed to recall them but In vain That Is a short hort resume of or the mili mill- tar tary situation This Is how the Turkey Tur Tur- ke key of or Enver and Talaat Is atoning for the e trust she has placed l Im In r G-r- In many any n Continued Tomorrow |
