One of the most striking features of the preparation was
the fact that the Germans never fraternized with the Turks. The German soldiers were well fed, clothed and supplied with plenty of medical stores and doctors. But the Turks were always short of stores, drugs and dressings, and the Germans did nothing to help them, even out of their own superfluity. Again, though their rifles were good, many of the Ottoman soldiers were in rags and without boots; and some lacked even headgear. In fine, the German and Turkish camps might have been at opposite ends of the earth, so far as any communication between the two was concerned. In this context we may note the recent utterance of the notorious Dr. Carl Peters to the effect that Germany cannot expect to win without invading Egypt or India. When all allow- ance is made for the speaker's peculiar virus, the fact remains that be may still be reflecting the views of saner German critics.
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