THE NEW ERA IN TURKEY.
[To THE EDITOR Or THE '4 Spacrwros."3 SIR,—I venture to beg a little space in your columns for the purpose of enlisting the sympathy and aid of your readers in a work which is of national importance, and quite outside the narrow sphere of party politics. For thirteen years the members of the Eastern Question Association have been in confidential relations with the leaders of the Turkish reform movement, and are still rendering them such assistance as it is possible to give them in the United Kingdom. Mr. Frederic Harrison has succeeded the Right Hon. James Bryce in the presidency of the Association.
The magnificent and deserved success of the Turkish reformers has; however, increased their responsibility, and it is to strengthen their hands in the great work before them, to help them without interfering in the internal concerns of the Ottoman Empire, and to secure for them the unstinted and constant moral support of the British nation that this Association desires to gain new adherents from all ranks of society. Our executive is strictly non-sectarian. Moslems, Jews, and Christians work side by side in supporting the Constitutional movement and in helping the leaders of that glorious campaign for the regeneration of the Ottoman Empire. There is neither entrance-fee nor subscription, the whole cost of the organisation being met by voluntary offerings at our group meetings and from private sources. I shall be glad to hear from any one wishing to join the Association.—I am, Sir, &c.,
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