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Show ' FIRING ON THE TURK I When will the last shot of the great world war be fired? . )ffi- tially the war ended on the ratification of the treaty of Versailles and was virtually over on armistice day, November 11, lf)S. that H. flay of three elevens eleventh hour, eleventh daj eleventh month I Tint echoes of the big mis which shelled Liege early in August, 1914, continue to be heard. The bombarding by British warships of the I Turkish forces on the shores of the Sea of Marmora, ten miles from Constantinople is the reverberation of the mighty conflict which changed the georgrapby of the world, wiped out monarchies and perplexed humanity everywhere. ; The fighting which is proceeding m the territory north of. 1 where Christianity had its birth is nothng more than the protest of the irreconcilable Turks to the uew order of things that depris jj them of the power to persecute those not of their religions belief. A The Turk after centuries of sway over subject races, refuses to yield to the domination of others. He was a cruel master and he dreads the thought of having a master perhaps quite as cruel. |