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The War Office (as I observed dur nga visit I paid to the commander of the First Army Corps there a couple f months ago) is now by far the busiest
most efficient of the Government departments Filled with alle Generals hard-working chiefs of staff and staff fier it would do credit to the headarters of a German army crops. More ney is spent on it then on any other. deputment. Even the ludicrously inadeaste Budget of the Minister of Education was recently cut down in order. that the army uight have been more Eoney to spend
In the Chamber the army has the control and means to keep it. Itecently a motion was made to the effect that off
s on active service could not sit as leputies without forfeiting their pay as officers. A civilian member pointed ut that the popularity of the army and attraction of double pay will lead to the Chamber being filled exclusively with officers but military members protested against the motion and it failed to pass
The tone of all the Turks is, I deepI regret to say, not that of a constitutional people. It is as a rule that of an army. The "Yeni Gazette" recently drew a parallel between Japan and the extremely Tarkey, but it failed important role which Japan's attention commerce industry and finance has played in the uplifting of Dai-Nippon
at saw was first that Japan devoted ll her energies to building up her litary and naval forces and second, that having done this she turned her attention to the contraction of an alli
Ever Bey, the Turkish military atta he" in Berlin, speaks in a warlike one about Turkey stationing an army. ps on the Busso-Turkish frontier in Va Minor; and Hussein Hilliyi Bey, the paratively peaceful Grand Vizier, says, in speaking of Turkey's future: -
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"We must try to make of Turkey a military Power of the first order, to have a well-organised and instructed army, a powerful fleet," etc., etc., afterwards, going on to speak of secondary things, such as railways, industry, and commerce, and-last of all-chools.
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To a certain extent this military spirit is natural and excusable in the Turks, but I am afraid that it will make them too proud, too (hauvinistie, and, at the same time (for, after all, they are a simple people), ton likely to become the tool of European Powers which may seek to excite them on the subject of Egypt, ludia or Mahomedanism Persia, Crete, generally.
The
The "Seman" of Salonica recently pub lished, aprops of the murder of Sir Curzon Wyllie, a ferocious article, entitled "Peoples of Asin, to arms" in which it preached the solidarity of all the Asiatic Peoples in the face of Europe's mania for expansion at their expense, and painted the wrongs of Asin in glaring colors, In the same way a leading and very able Turkish deputy, who edits a paper called "Le Courier D'Orient," said (July 23rd), that Turkey also must have her "point of view on the Polish, s Scandinavian, and
even on the Irish question."
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of course, goes t even further The army martial pride. When the
than this its
Cretan question was acute, Mahmud Sheiket spoke of a march on Athens, and the 4th Army Corps wired to Constanti the nople, offering its services against Greece "in case the 2nd and 3rd Army Corps are to tired after their exertions of April on a Turkish 24th." On the same occasion a paper, a addressing itself menacingly to t
Cabinet must MUNE Government. said that "the not think that the sceptre of power is a stick to lean on idly," meaning that the sceptre is in its opinion a "big stick" wherewith a Government should be for ever laying about it and which is in fact intended for no other pup
This is the naive and martial temper of the Tuk how different, by the way,
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to the restrained and diplomatic Japanese temper, how similar in some tespects to the tone of the foolish young Chinese who talked so loudly, ime ago of abolishing extra-territoriality and who have now under the reactionary "regime" of Prince Ching, subsided s suddenly and so completely.
Russian Publicists are already express ing apprehensions that Germany may make a cat's-paw of the Ottomans. Constantinopolitan Russian, writing int
Than
Novos Vremya" of August 5th, points to the extraordinary reception given to von der Goltz Pasha on his return to Turkey (a reception which would never be given by the Turks to Tolstoy or to the greatest leaders of European thought), when the railway station all the officers of higher rank than Generals publicly kissed von der tilty hand. This German instructor was son after made Vice-President of the Higher Military Council, and, at his instance, seventeen more German officers are to Reven come to Turkey to teach, while twentynine Turkish officers are to go to tiermany to learn. Moreover, at the instance of General von der Giolt, the Higher Mili tary Council has decided, in in spite Turkey's serious financial weakness soon to re-arm the whole army with Mausers and to order 400 quick-firing batteries. All these things, as well as vast quan tities of ammunition, will be bought in Germany.
The Russian writer whom I quote somewhat afraid of a Turkey which is the Turkey could be used to bring pressure puppet of Germany, for such a In 1877-1878 the ou St. Petersburg. Russians found it very hard to overcome the resistance of 350,000 Turks "badis armed, half naked, and hungry, command infinitesimal number of edu by an rated officers nine per cent. of the whole." At present the Turkish any numbers about one million. On Caucasian frontier we would have now against us, not M40,000 bayonets, 124 114~
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