Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-07-28
UNREST IN TURKEY
Power of Committee of Union
and Progress Threatened.
EUR0PE'S RULERS REST
Political Complications Are Not
Likely for Some Time.
SPAIN TO BUILD WARSHIPS
Recovery From Effects Of Clash
With United States Has Taken
Fourteen Years.
SPAIN TO BUILD WARsHIPS

! BERLIN, July 27.-The kaiser is II
Norway. the car is enjoying salt sea
breezes on board his yacht and every
| European monarch Of Importance, as
we'll as all the leading diplomats, are
taking it easy. SO one Is entitled to con
clude that no political complications arr
apt to disturb the peace of Europe al
| least for some weeks, and but for the
everlasting Turko-Italian war. few
skirmishes on the frontier of Portuga
and the general unrest in Turkey, al
Europe would be one great Arcadia with
wolves and lambs resting peacefully to-
gether.
| OF the minor clouds that are floating
| in the political summer Sky the most
serious is the unrest in Turkey, where
many things seem to indicate that the
| military movement which originated al
Monastir. Is seriously threatening the
| continuation In power of the committee
| of union and progress.
/ make this assertion on the strength
of statement made to me by the Al
bantam leader Ismail Renal Bey, former
governor of Tripol, who, during the last
few years, has strongly opposed the new
regime because Of It's tendency toward
JacObinism.
Cause Of the Trouble.
1.-THE cause Of the whole trouble" he
said. sis to be found in the political con-
ceptions of the committee. Up to the
present time Turkey has been a confed-
Grafton of communities and groups. each
Of them having a strong individuality OF
itself, either ethically. nationally or re-
| ligiously, and being at liberty to develop
its particular character under the su-
premacy and leading of Gilman sue
cessors. Brought up in the tradition of
western radicaiism. the men of the new
regime have started with the idea OF
absorbing into a highly centralized state
all those particularisms. They have only
succeeded in breaking up the empire,
since they are severing the bond OF ira
dition and common interest that holds
together the different pieces Of the fan
ricS.
Among the groups within Turkey none
is more fond of its ancient privileges
than the Albanian. With Abdul Hamid.
who, as a rule was very careful not to
interfere with the interests of the nation
al and religious bodies in his dominions,
they were real favorites. The change
has been all the more unbearab.e for
them. since from Constantinople so-called
reforms have been pressed upon them
the taking of census, the imposition
of new taxes. the establishment of a sort
of compulsory service. as consequence
of which they have been sent at times to
far distant Arabia: the destruction of the
kuiehs. or fortified houses. and SO forth.
Victims of Expeditions.
Having opposed the new policy. they
have been made the victims Of three
punitive expeditions during the last three
years.
To-day. with view of retaining Euro
pean sympathies while changing nothing
in their drastic methods. the Turkish
ministers are taking steps to secure the
appointment Of an English Official as in
spector general in Macedonia. The sig
nificance of this will be clear to all who
remember that the present regime owes
Its very existence to the prOtestation
that arose in Turkey when the Anglo
Russian program. including with other
items, the appointment of foreigner as
inspector general, was made known. 1t
amounts to a plain avowal of faisare. !
THE only way left open is the way of
battle The Albanians, up till now d.
vided between themselves and separated
in rival clans, have united In face Of the
common foe. They viii. not disarm be-
fore a measure of large provincial au-
tonOmy allowing Of their development on
national lines has been conceded to
them
Spain Receivers From War.
1t has taken Spain nearly fourteen
years to recover from the blow OF the
war with Uncle Sam. but now at last
she intends to make a serious effort to
replace the vessels lost at Santiago and
Cavite.
The first Spanish dreadnought the Es-
pana, will be commissioned in Novem-
Der, and will be quickly followed by two
-k.r k,A
3O5 centimeter guns. mounted in pairs
In barbettes.
Great sums have been spent in putting
the government arsenal at FL FerrOi in
fit state to turn out vessels of this type
and thus establish afresh a nationa. in
dustry which had been allowed to decay.
It now becomes obvious that on the COM
pletion Of this initial program fresh work
must be given to the arsenal or the work
men will have to be disbanded land in
evitably they will emigrate). and the fruit
OF the nations sacrifice will be lost. Thus
fresh constructions become inevita BILE.
and the government has In principle de-
cided upon the enlargement OF the naval
program by the addition OF three more
dreadnoughts OF 5000 tons, against the
| 15 TOO tons Of the Espana and her sisters.
Meanwhile, no provision has been made
| for the manning Of the ships of the 1910
program, much less has provision been
taken for the three bigger ships to be
shortly laid down.
German Food Supply.
| DR.. Felix Somary. an economist. dis
cusses Germany's food supply In war
time In a suggestive article in Prof.
Schmoller's Jahrucher. He foresees grave
peril from the ''encircling' of the father
land by hostile armies and fleets, and ad-
vocates the novel project Of building
forthwith gigantic warehouses for the
storing Of at least 100000 tons of wheat
He estimates that the cost of purchasing
and outstanding of wheat, including the
construction Of steel and cement storage
vaults, would be in the neighborhood of
500, $4,000, which he thinks would be a
cheap investment. viewed from the stand
| point of the vital emergency ii Is sought
to meet. The $6.OO0.0OO a year interes,
which the project involves if carried out
with borrowed capital. is dismissed by DR..
| Somary as a bagate lie. He thinks Ger
mans are concentrating their attention
too exclusively on the purely military
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