Show WILL GERMANY BACK TURKEY It is said that Germany will sustain the sultan in his demands on Greece The impprtance ot this announcement if true will depend Very largely on What the sultans demands are If they are merely nominal more of a formal than a substantial nature Germanys support will not amount to anything that is it will have no great significance or Influence on affairs in the eastOn east-On the ether hand if the demands of I the sultan are for a cession of territory and the payment of a considerable I war indemnity or either then Germanys Ger-manys support means very much and is by far the most important fact developed de-veloped by the GrecoTurkish war It would be almost tantamount to a declaration dec-laration that Emperor William intends to be the dominant factor in the determination de-termination of the course of affairs in the east It would almost as certaInly mean that Germany was hostile to England and this might not be a bad thing as it would free England from restraint In acting in the east But what would it mean so far as Russia is concerned Russia will never I abandon the hope of possessing Constantinople Con-stantinople until that city comes under the domination of some other power than the Turkish a European power equal to herself It really begins to look as though something of real importance im-portance might result from the Greco Turkish war after all There has been no such prospect since the first few days of the war I |