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Show uu GERMANS MAY AID THE TURKS FIGHT London, July 1, 3 '30 a, m. An interesting in-teresting discussion of the German policy is reproduced by the Times this morning from German newspapers. newspa-pers. Dr. Ernest Jaeckh, a well-known writer, maintains that if the English statesmen had to choose they would rather lose Calais than Suez, and contends con-tends that England's main desire is to protect Egypt Count Von Reventlow, military writer writ-er for the Tages Zeitung, agrees with Dr. Jaeckh in the latter respect He says that the attempted Invasion of Egypt in January was only an experiment ex-periment and that German engineers are now building a Syrian railway and a Sinai railway, which will convey con-vey the necessary heavy artillery and open tho way from Constantinople to Suez. He adds that the way from Berlin to Constantinople must bo opened by a decisive victory in Gall-cia; Gall-cia; then England can be struck a mortal blow in Egypt. "England's main Interest In the Dardanelles," he says, "is the protection protec-tion of Egypt, and that is the explanation explana-tion of all the efforts to range the Balkan countries against the Teutonic allies." Count Von Reventlow disagrees with Dr. Jaeckh in thinking Calais less Important to England than Suez, and says that the question of Calais is more complicated, but equally important. |