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Show NO TURKEY FOR POWERS' THANKSGIVING FEAST. Turkey has just escaped being the piece de resistance of the Thanksgiving feast of the powers by the reluctant acquiescence of the Sultan to the demands of the combined nations. It was a poor bluff the Sick Man of Europe put up, when he threatened a Mussulman Mussul-man uprising if the powers persisted; and he has gradually been forced to take the course which the indignant eiyilizednations re-cuired. re-cuired. At first replying in a veiled threat that a demonstration against. Turkey would precipitate a holy warfare, he later changed his tactics and decided to temporize by offering the officers of the hostile fleet presents of fruit, cigarettes, rugs and other dainties dear to the Oriental heart. But when the combined fleet on Sunday took Mitylene, the Sultan deemed it time to submit. The absence of Germany from the coercing force is significant and is the subject of much speculation throughout Europe. The f-iendship of the Kaiser for the Sultan is well known. William has on several previous .occasions managed to prevent drastic treatment , (jui Hamid. In this instance he did not succeed, if, indeed, he eeriously tried to check the joint movement for Macedonian reforms Waa the Kaiser willing that the Torte should, be reduced to a state of helplessness without sharing in the responsibility, or was he willine to have a war on the Christians precipitated? These ques-: ques-: tions are justified by the past performances of the German Emperor in all dealings with Turkey. He has placed himself in a suspicious position by refusing to join in the internationaloercive movement - 0 ' t . . r and must endure the suspicions and innuendoes that his conduct has caused. But the Sultan has been shown once and for all that he must observe ob-serve the practices of civilized nations in his conduct of the government, govern-ment, and that he cannot ignore the. requirements of interuational Ijw. The outcome was inevitable; it was only a question of how long the Sultan could delay the final step. Armed resistance would be ridiculous, ri-diculous, as Turkey has no navy to speak of, and it was not to be supposed sup-posed that the nations would permit a successful opposition to their demands by warlike methods. The events of the past week seem to have solved the Turkish problem, 4 |