MUSTAPHA KEMAL PASHA.
[To rue EDITOR OF THE " SPECTAT0132] Sus,—When I learnt about a month ago that Mustapha Kemal Pasha was a Macedonian, whose mother till lately had been living quietly in Salonica—a year ago she left that city—I felt greatly surprised I had not known it sooner. It was, however,
a further surprise when the first German waiter I conversed with on a recent journey on the Rhine said at once : "Yes; Kemal is a Macedonian, but all his generals are Germans." The two facts may account for his continuous successes. An English officer who had been fighting in Syria during the great War said : "Why should his officers not be Germans? I should think it is very likely. When we were in Turkish Syria fighting every officer we killed or captured wounded was a German." Thus it seems that Germany's tentacles stretch over Asia Minor, Syria, Russia, and, I suppose, Ireland, too. But it would be interesting to know whether Kemal Pasha is just a Turk or of the race of Alexander of Macedon, for whose con- quest of Greece the Greeks of to-day can never enough punish the Macedonians.—I am, Sir, &c., A. E. N. Lime.
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