Show sick SICK MAN Of EUROPE KEPT AliVE IN FOUR For seventy years Turkey ha has borne bomB the tho name of oC tho tick sick roan man of or Europe In InIS IS Nicholas I L I. czar of Russia visited England and consulted with British statesmen about what hat ho he believed to be beth bethe bethe th the Im Impending fall faU of oC the tho Ottoman em em- pire Wo have vc a n. Ick man a a. dying man on our said fald tue czar We Vo Yo must keep him alivo 0 so Ion long as is possible possible pos pos- pos pos- sible but we e must fr frankly take Into view all contingencies The Tho demise did not nol take tako place as aa ex expected ex- ex J b bv by Nicholas an and l since that time Turkey has hag engaged In four wars ara and h. has undergone a revolution re in its internal inter Inter- nal nat administration It fought Russia in the tho Crimea in 55 and again in the tho Balkans Balkan In 1877 losing several fC t rov- rov Ince Incas inces It rondo mado a vain aln resistance against Ital Italy's 8 seizure of ot Tripoli In and arid In tho the Balkan war ar of ur la last t year It lost its remaining European territory save Move a Q strip extending about miles front from Constantinople Con Con- Just far tar enough h to include Tho The present sultan Mohammed d V Y gained mIned the In after tho the Young Turks had gained control of or tho the government govern overn ment men exiling Sultan Abdul Hamid The Tho revolution rc of oC which much was hoped did not stop the persecution of at Turkeys Turkey's Christian population nor change Turkeys Turkey's habit of oC fishing in muddy mudd- waters Q of di di- di After the outbreak of or the present war Turkey gave e a n. haven ha to tho the German cruisers and Br Breslau lau and ostensibly osten- osten sibly purchased them a n. transaction against which England protested It al also o abrogated the tho treaties which had bad limited Turkish lIO erol sovereignty nt over natives of or other European c countries within her borders and did a away W with all extra territorial government go h by ly foreign consuls and with nth foreign ces in 1st Turkey Tho The London Telegraph In what was WU believed to b be 00 an officially In inspired utterance ut ut- terance October or 1 I. I declared that If Jf Turkey Turkey Tur Tur- key chooses war It will in mean the ocd end not merely mere of Turkey In Europe but of or Turkey in Asia and the allied powers will exact tho the fullest retribution The Tho Turkish ambassador to tho the United States A. A Rustem Boy Bey recently rc left Washington after having been rebuked b by President Wilson for tor expressions which ho nado In an authorized interview con- con corning the United States |