Show m IF JL L I 1 T gex xi 1 HEIR women bring flowers ars e L i band j and sweets to wo wounded enemy in hospitals nation 44 A hash has conducted warfare in a very clean handed manner A r sew A jk 4 A t 4 77 W dyolf 4 ads 0 THE average american the turk Is a swarthy cutthroat waving a U scimitar bellowing allah and wallowing walloping in the blood of infidel gia gla ours history Is responsible for the epithets terrible and unspeakable which have clung so tenaciously to the popular conception of the ottoman that it cornea comes as a rude shock to find the average turk a human being and furthermore decidedly thus writes theodore N Pac packman lu in the new york tribune during the recent british campaign in mesopotamia a band of arabs retaining all their ancient notions of warfare proved a thorn in the flesh of both the english and turkish forces hovering about the flanks of both armies they raided first one side elds and then the other choosing opportunities ties for securing the most plunder with the least risk ilsk to themselves those tactics naturally proved so annoying to both sides that one commander sent hla his opponent the following message 1 I am thoroughly tired of these bedouin robbers and their treachery you must be aso let us therefore rn make alce a truce with one another for two or three days and mete out to these arabs such punishment ns as will put an end td their tricks the author of this unusual request was not the british 40 commander but the unspeakable turk i the turk who writes of this incident does not add what answer VZ was given but it Is safe to say a sporting proposition could not be turned down don by a true prom from the very enar entrance ance of turkey into this world war a step repulsive to a people already heartily sick of being drafted into the ranks the english press has taken a different attitude toward their turkish foes than it has toward the Teu tons A gleaning of the leading periodicals reveals countless incidents of tho the turks chivalry as fighters and aboveboard above board methods when not under the direct observation of their german officers 1 I have such admiration for the turks wrote a british officer serving in mesopotamia to the london morning post february 7 tile the pukka apukka turks I 1 menn not the kurdish savages who butcher armenians Armen ians or tho the bagdad turco arabs that I 1 wonder more and more how they ever came into the war at all they did a thing after that commands recognition A of of our wounded stuck in the mud and with some medical personnel on board had to he abandoned the turks towed the barge downstream and under cover of them the white flag sent the whole lot including the medical personnel back to the british camp unharmed in any way 1 I know of two wounded british officers left out the night after the battle who were found by the turks in both cases the turks took away all their equipment haversack belt revolver papers and field glas glasses seq but both men tay feay they were not harmed in any way in the case of one man they gave him water to drink loosened his cont coat arid and made him film more comfortable they left both for our people to collect the next bornt morning ng it Is the arabs elio maltreat our wounded and commit all sorts of atrocities recent dispatches from that tar far distant front so brief as to escape general notice have disclosed the tha same attitude between the lines of the meager official reports aft after er the fall of kut el amaan the Turkish commander gave general townshend bock back his sword later reports announced the exchange of disabled prisoners suggested b by y the th turks I 1 from another theater of the war where the turks have been lighting fighting comes the story of an incident ot of the common sold soldiers lers attitude in n 0 letter published in the london times or of february 8 a british officer wrote from imagine this oils wart war I 1 some of our people went out on a in front of the line where were a number of turks the latter were na as courteous as po possible isible and showed them the best beat places for geese and helped to stalk them I 1 from uw tho gallipoli peninsula however ho weier hoto have come coma the most tales of tho the individual and c all 4 moo HT I 1 r 4 ZY courtesy of the turk ns as a fighting man A dozen instances could be mentioned truces cruces were suggested hv by the turks to allow both sides to bury their dead ii a dozen doyen more of occasions where red cross flags a and nd flags of truce were carefully respected spec ted when the turks were plunged into the war by the germans english business men of fighting age in constantinople immediately offered their services to the king although on amicable relations with the turks in one instance one of these englishmen who was assigned to the fleet at the dardanelles Darda nelles ns as interpreter with the rank of lieutenant was sent forward to meet a turkish officer advancing under a flag of truce imagine the lieutenants surprise to find fand the turkish officer one of his respected friends of constantinople the truce quickly arranged they chatted for a few moments and while the lieutenant was returning to his lines a stray sh shrapnel rap burst near him the next day a profuse apology for tile the accident reached him from the unspeakable turk the new zealand and australian forces themselves no amateurs nm at the game of fighting from natural cover found much to learn from the turks who as individuals showed great ingenuity and sportsmanship in their ruses auses often a turk completely disguised as a bush or a small tree tree by tying greens about him picked off many a tommy before the game was discovered at one point in the anzac region a turkish 11 sniper was giving the english some some trouble and an irishman who was a good shot was told off to deal with him film for the next few minutes the two at no great distance took turns in arv trying ing to account for fo reach each other at last the turk wounded tho the irishman then those who were watching the marksmanship contest saw the turk creep cautiously from his shelter leaving his rifle behind him he crossed the space apace to ills his enemy and assisted him ln In unbinding binding up his wounds from tho tha emergency kit with which each british soldier la Is supplied then the two men shared a drink of water and some smokes arid and the turl turk crept back to his trench it taa Is a long long way from the turk set in authority tho thorl rity ty and entering into pacts with germany to the simpleminded simple minded individual sitting cross cass legged in a coffeehouse coffe eliouse smoking a narelle reclining by ills his sweet waters making or even lighting fighting it a war in the trenches tor for a cause in which he himself isi sure sun to lose od nd matter which side wins I 1 the turkish government withal la Is vile amer lean residents ta in constantinople during th the conflict have found the native newspapers full ot of ofIl dally inspired f designed Signed Je to stir UD 00 VOD pw w dewy ap ular feeling against the british when the underlying ivin g sentiment has tended j dangerously against j i G 1 ermanas erm e r m anys a n ys aspirations I 1 f news one preposterous story r related elated in great detail how during the turkish feast of balram the turkish troops th threw r e w cigarettes over into the british tr trenches enches and how tile the british retaliated by throwing back smokes es which blitch would cap explode lode and injure the faces t f the moslem troops the writer rement remembers bers the startling dispatches in th the P turk to to the press ish capi capital till during the first balkan war in the week that the bulgarians Bulga rians pushed phed the turks turk s back to tile the t total tal num ber of kilometers turkish news dispatches would have placed the array army somewhere in scandinavia no nation could ably have conducted warfare on a more above aboveboard boar d and cle clean n handed manner than the turks said norman wilkinson the visit to gallipoli A thousand english artist after a pities that the turks should have been guilty of such fiendish acts as the armenian massacres for had it not been for this the turk would have emerged from this trial with a character from which the stain of lust aud and cruelty had been effectively removed visitors to the hospitals of constantinople have been almost mobbed by slightly wounded rounded soldiers in their eagerness to share the wild flowers brought in from the banks of the when the flowers are distributed the inevitable cigarettes come next nest if no other incident could be cited to banish the adjective unspeakable in connection with the turk the following related by an american who served in a turkish hospital would suffice A aung australian kustra llan of twenty with a nasty shrapnel wound worine in the thigh chanced to be the only placed in it turkish hospital at Beyl erbey on tile the asiatic shore of the As the news of this lone english speaking boy filtered through the native village the old hanoumis the elder women outdid themselves in visiting the lad ind and bearing him lowers flowers and sweets perhaps lie he ha has S a mother in england who Is waiting for him wits was the remark of one ot of them so much attention was given the australian that the other wounded in the hospital took to groaning tremendously whenever visitors would enter in the hope of 0 attracting part of the attention of course their motive was evident for the wounded turk Is tile the last hist man in the world to give way to his feelings under the turkish doctor in charge was actually to too 0 kind to the lade lad tor for in ills his solicitude to remove every fragment of the shrapnel lie he kept opening the wound every few days until tho the boy co could uld stand it no longer and succumbed he was burled with full military honors and after the turkish custom the coffin was borne upon the shoulders of a squad for fully five miles from Beyl erbey to the E english cemetery at hal dar bechn there beneath the cy presses that shelter tile the english troops killed in the crimean war men inen whom florence nightingale could n not ot save th they er laid the australian away rev robert frew the english pastor beloved alike by the turks and british rend read tho the burial service the lad had a christian funeral with a compeaux ot of moslem troops us nil a guard burd of honor 1 |