All doubt as to the extent of Turkey's complicity in
the German war-plans has been removed by the publieation in Berlin of the text of the secret Turco-German Treaty signed at Constantinople on August 2nd, 1914. Turkey agreed to make war on Russia if she intervened on behalf of Serbia. Turkey promised to give the German Military • Mission " an effective influence upon the general conduct " of the Turkish Army. The Treaty was to take effect at once but was to be, kept secret. Thus the treacherous-Turks, more, than two months before they attacked Russia, were our enemies, and had put themselves willingly under German direction. • We do not; suppose that the• few remaining Turoophiles in this country will be shocked by this revelation, as they are impervious to, rgument. , But it is a ;final proof of the impossibility of trusting the Turks.
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