NEWS OF THE WEEK.
TN foreign affairs the most important event of the week has been the resignation of Mahmud Shevket Pasha, the. Turkish Minister of War. The events which led up to his fall are at present obscure, but there seems little doubt that the position of the Committee has of late been greatly shaken and that the Turkish Army is full of unrest and indeed of the spirit of mutiny. Reports from Albania show that considerable portions of the troops cannot be trusted to obey their officers, and that it is becoming more and more difficult to get the soldiers to act against the Albanian insurgents. It may be that the Committee will be able to keep its hold on the Government and the Army, but it is also by no means impossible that some sudden accident may overturn the present regime, and that, in the words of an Austrian newspaper quoted in the Times of Friday, Mahmud Shevket's fall will prove to have removed " the corner-stone of the tottering edifice," and will thus break up the Committee. It is not a little amusing to note that many of the Turks who not long ago professed to regard Britain as a "back number" in Turkish affairs, and Germany as Turkey's natural protector, are now beginning to discover that we are Turkey's only true friends I
