4 DECEMBER 1915, Page 13

Remember, further, that the Turks take a very different view

of their position from that held in Europe. They fully believe that they are now coming to their own again, and that they have laid Germany and Austria under such heavy obligations that when the final settlement comes Turkey will be reinstated in almost all the possessions in Europe which she held before the first Balkan War. The restoration of Albania they look on as certain, and they regard as equally certain the cession of a strip of territory in Thrace and Macedonia which will connect Turkey and the Turkish possessions on the Adriatic. If Bulgaria is saved by Turkey, she may find the salvage claim so exorbitant that she will wish that she had never asked to be defended from Russia.