| Show TURKS BLAME E HUNS FOR tHEIR DEfEAT y PLEDGE OF AID IN PALESTINE NOT KEPT KEPT AND BREAK MAY RS RESULT UL j Reported That Turkish Government I Is R Ready ady for Open Rupture With May Desert Kaiser at Any Moment No Washington No official advices s regardIng regarding re re- re- re garding the tile reported break between Turkey Turley and Germany have reached Washington but the government would not be surprised If Turkey has been driven to an open rupture as th thereIsa reis reisa a well founded bac background ground for the Uie report re re- port I i j Reports ts U that at a Turl l l recently recently re re- re- re had been trying trying- in Switzerland to cultivate with SOlle of 01 of the th allied governments have been r received re received re- re here It would be natural officials of of- said saltI for tile the Turkish government government government govern govern- ment to endeavor to-endeavor to find some new friends among the powers before breaking with Its old associates When the tiie present sultan came to the throne In Constantinople a a few weeks ago some very strong antl anti Ger Germans Ger- Ger mans came Into power Many Turkish officials blame the Germ Germans ns for the lack of food and other supplies In Turkey Turkey Tur Tur- key as well as the tile reverses sustained by the Turkish arms i Germany promised assistance t to the Turks In the Palestine and Mesopotamia Ie opo tamia campaigns where here the British forces have been consistently defeating lefe ting the Turks In neither case case has the German pledge of aid been fulfilled and the Turks are Indignant as a result The strained relations s between Turkey and Bulgaria which recently resulted In armed conflict have caused a strong German anti feeling In both countries The Turks are satisfied that they did not receive fair fall treatment In territory when the peace with Rumania was signed and the have much the same feeling es are said to realize that tuey ar are being Impoverished hi b by bt t the e Germans In the I effort to provide food for the Teutonic soldiers and nd civilian cl civilian population KIng Ferdinand of Bulgaria Is rep rep represented resented as fearing the dismemberment dismember dismember- ment of his kingdom aft after r the war war and andas andas as having difficulty in keeping In con control tr l the very strong German eler G antl-G antl el el- el ment with which he lu had d to dea deal when he decided to cast cast- his lot with Ger Ger- many many This This' element has lost no p of Its Ei strength since Bulgaria's entrance Into the war |
