27 NOVEMBER 1909, Page 14

TURKISH DISTRUST OF EUROPE.

[To THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—The controversy between the Foreign 1st-misters at Vienna and St. Petersburg is especially interesting to Turkish subjects, for we now see how some "friends " of the Ottoman Empire at the very moment of their verbal protestations of goodwill at Constantinople were partitioning on paper .the whole of the European provinces of Turkey. Surely 'we cannot be expected to view these proceedings with equanimity, or to accept the advice of wolves in the garments of sheep !