GERMANY, BRITAIN, AND TURKEY. [To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR."]
SIR, I've read with great satisfaction the news that Turkey has declined to conclude an ignominious and cowardly peace with Italy, and hand over two unconquered provinces to the Italian pirates and their cowardly army. Bravo Turkey ! In hoc signo vines ! It will be amusing to watch your obvious discomfiture and chagrin at this result. Of course, a Turkish victory in Tripoli is not wished for by English statesmen, who fear the effects such event would have upon Mohammedan feeling in Egypt. But how is it possible for you to believe that a proud and warlike nation would ever acquiesce in the shameful cowardice of such surrender P You write like a civilian Englishman, who can neither understand military honour nor the strategical hopelessness of the Italian position. Surrender to the coward is the greatest military disgrace, and the Italian is a coward crouching behind earthworks and not daring to come out into the open. They've been shirking hard fighting and hard losses persistently. Do you think they want to risk disastrous defeats in Asia Minor or Thrace, where their dead would be numbered by thousands P I'm sorry to see that all your sage counsels have been contemptuously rejected. Where's your "inevitable" now P We've been waiting for it more than twelve months.—I am, Sir, &c., GERMAN AND PRO-TURK. [If, as our German correspondent declares, the Italian army is worthless, how is it that Germany is so anxious to keep Italy within the Triple Alliance P—En. Spectator.]
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