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Show TURKEY HAS BUT LITTLE LEFT No one would have predicted, when the Balkan war opened, that Turkey would come out of the struggle a nation na-tion almost destroyed, and yet the treaty of London, signed on last Friday, Fri-day, left the Ottoman empire a wreck, without influence In world affairs. af-fairs. The Turks at one time threatened to overrun Europe and they did push back the Christians well into the boundaries of tho Roman empire. They had Greece in their possession, the Balkan states and all the islands of the eastern Mediterranean. The Christian powers forced Turkey to grant Independence to Greece, later they closed the Dardanelles, and then gave the Ionian island to Greece. A few years ago the Greeks attempted at-tempted to force Turkey to terms over Crete, but the Turks were sweeping over the northern part of Greece, lriing the enemy before them when the powers once more interfered to hold the Turks In check. The Balkan war was ended by the powers intervening to present the victorious allies from entering Con stantinople and writing their own treaty of peace which might have sent the Turk back to Asia from whence he came. As it is, Turkey has been forced to cede to the Balkan warriors and Albania 60,000 of its 65,000 square miles of European territory. Turkey in Europe is now only a narrow strip of land on the peninsula on which Constantinople is situated. The Turks have been a body of cutthroats and no regrets would have been expressed if they had been destroyed de-stroyed as a nation. oo |