Salt Lake Tribune | 1917-03-18 | Page 13 | Fears of Teutons Realized in East

FEARS OF TEUTONS " REALIZED Ifl EAST Fall of Bagdad Attributed to the Use of Silver by the English. By WILLIAM BAYAKD HALE, Staff Correspondent of the International News Service. BERLIN, March IT. "What informed persons have long feared has com to yass in Mesopotamia." This was said to me today by Councillor Coun-cillor Krause. son-in-law of the late Field Marshal von der Goltz and himself a resident res-ident lor twenty years of Turkey and an adviser of the Turkish government and observer durinsc the Boer war. It was out of the extraordinary experiences of Krause that he continued: "From what we learn from Turkish sources, coupled with the knowledge of affairs in the east, it must be concluded that the unreliable Arab tribes, which were employed principally in harassing the flanks and rear of the enemy and y-pra.nevr completely trustworthy, have .jMTpersuaded to abandon the Turks. Ti. is a fact that the Turkish officiajs are unable to deal with those tribes of Arabs subject to their rule who are not Mussulmans. Mussul-mans. This race conflict accounts for the ceaseless unrest in the Turkish empire, the latest evidence of which was the rising ris-ing at Mecca two months ago, a movement move-ment whose results are still unknown. How far English silver bullets played a practical part in this recent history is not definitely known. "Regarding the significance of the fall of Bagdad, the ancient seat of the caliphate, it would be useless to attempt to conceal the moral effect, but It must be remembered the Turks are fighting on many fronts and the practical results of the abandonment of Bagdad are small."