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Show CHOICE EXAMPLES OF TURKISH SLEUTH- I ING 5jr Ono of the reasons for Turkoy'a1 Pi decay to the point of Its present Im- I potenco may be found In the Turks disposition to regard himself among i his subjects to the army a castle of superior beings. This Is a conclusion conclu-sion reached by Melville Chater writing writ-ing In the July New lied Cross Magazine Mag-azine on "Turkey's Wages of Sin." Tlio result ho finds Is that beyond an army now decimated and n government, gov-ernment, tlio Turk owns nothing; commerce, shipping, finances and even ev-en the very shops nnd hotols of his capital nro almost exclusively In tlio hands of subject races developed into in-to ctynpetltlve peoples. iJ"lB situation Inevitably led tlio Turk Into difficulties, somo of them profoundly ludicrous. "It is obvious," wrlten Mr. Chat-revolutionary Chat-revolutionary army and doletod a state, based on a casta system and headed by drones could only bo made to cohere by consummate guile or Machlevellan policy whorounder an enormous spy system dovelopod and suspicion stalked exorywhere. It Is still related how his officials confiscated confis-cated a box of toy soldiers suppoa-U suppoa-U ed to be equipment models of Gome I reovlutlonary army and deleted from an Importation of chemistry - , .-ii. books each ropttlon of H20 which the chief of the lntelllgence(?) bureau bur-eau ingeniously Interpreted as meaning mean-ing Hamld the .Second equals Zero, Ab for tlio British machinery firm 'which shipped over several largo I packing cases it Is no wonder that .their consignment was returned unopened un-opened when the accompanying advertising ad-vertising matter was found to contain con-tain tho damning phraso capable of creating two hundred revolutions re-volutions per minuted' |