Turkey's entry into the Great War can only be the
end of the Turkish Empire. The Ottoman Empire has committed suicide, or rather has been assassinated by Enver Bey and the group of desperados who now form the Young Turk Com- mittee. Whether the act has been merely that of men drunk with ambition, or whether the bravos, or a large portion of them, have taken German gold, remains to be seen. If the Germans and Austrians win, the destruction of Turkey will be as certain as, perhaps even more certain than, it will be if the Allies are victorious. Germany and Austria will divide Turkey between them, and hard masters they will prove, whether in Asia Minor, in Syria, or in Egypt. The Germans have no experience of dealing with the Oriental, and think that to" hit him briskly on the head" is the only true method. Already the German officers who are running not only the Turkish Navy, but the Turkish Army and the Turkish bureaucracy, are acting on this principle. The Turk, who is a proud man, will not like it.
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