The news, or rather the rumours, that there has been
a considerable amount of fighting among the troops at Tchatalja owing to the fact that a large number of them sympathized with Kiamil's Government and distrust the Committee, con- firms us in the view that it will be impossible for the Committee Government to abandon the attempt to improve tber position by a renewal of the war. It is said that so divided is opinion in the army outside Constantinople that no fewer than forty officers were killed and a great many wounded in some sort of emeute raised by the supporters of Nazim Pasha when the news of his murder reached the lines. Surely if this story is true, and if it is an indication of the feeling of the army, men in the position of the Committee would be almost certain to feel that their only chance to prevent a counter-revolution organized in the army was to launch it against the national foe. When men begin to fire upon a foreign enemy there is always a chance of their forgetting their internal differences, however acute. The Committee Government are essentially political gamblers, and must therefore be expected to carry out the gamblers' game and not play for safety. It is, of course, just possible that even they may come to think that the throw they contemplate is too desperate, but we find it difficult to believe that this will be the case.
