Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1914-11-30
NEW ASPECT OF
TURK s OUTLOOK
IN PRESENT WAR
Russia Is Nearing Realization
of Age-long Dream of Ac-
quiring Access to the Open
Sea.

/ A writer in the Philadelphia Publ,
Ledger gives the following very In.
tcresting estimate of the position Ol
| Turkey In the present war:
Has the hour of doom for the Turk.
ish empire I'm Europe, perhaps ever
| in Asia, struck al last i? Can II survive
the shock of this last war into which
the Young Turk party, instigated by
/ Germany, has hurled 1t? 1--WE have on
our hands, said the first Car Nicho-
j las. when he visited the English court
after the Anglo Russian entente OF
1874, "a very sick man. But the sick
man has been, like Charles H. long
time dying All the resources of in
ternational medicine have been em-
ployed TO prolong his life. One power
or another has felt obliged to keep
the Turk at Constantinople. Last of
all, the German emperor has con-
vinced him that Codlin's the friend,
not Short. SO he strikes blindly at
his old enemy, Russia, and her new
allies, regardless of the possibly fatal
consequences.
Doom Is Sealed.
For century and % half, indeed,
ever since the treaty OF Kuchuk Kahn
jari was signed between Russia and
Turkey In 1774. the doom OF the en-
pirc OF Suleiman the Magnificent has
been freely predicted. Probably the
prediction might have been more
quickly fulfilled but for the number
OF the claimants to the spoil. Europe
was no longer threatened by the Turk
as 1t was in the fatefu years follow
ing the victories of Mahomet II, but
his lighting power made him still
C...s IL
ousies altogether responsible for the
tcnacity with which he clung to the
remnant of his conquests. Racial and
religious conditions in the Balkans
have had no small share in the per-
petuation of Turkish rule The his
tory of Bnlgar Serb, Greek and Al
banian Is complicated and obscure
but the present situation cannot be
well understood without some knowl-
edge of 1t. When the Turk first ar
rived in the Balkan peninsula he
found II divided by strong antagon-
isms among four races and three
churches. Long before that the Slav
had been overwhelmed by the Bull
gars. The conquered absorbed the con-
queror, Just as the Saxon absorbed
the Norman but while England be-
came one nation. there has never been
perhaps there never can be, unity
among the people of the Balkans.
The Germans do not now hate the
English worse than the Abanians
hate the Serbs. or the Serbs the Bul- !
gars One after another has tried to
establish a settled rule. but 1t has al !
ways been eventually overthrown. |
Hatreds that have survived the men
ace of the Turk may well be called |
BnIgaria's Attitude.
There Is nothing surprising. there I
fore. In the fact that Bulgaria might
have Joined with Turkey for the de-
struction of Servia. or Greece with |
servla for the destruction of Bull
gara. Nor, although Russia Is reckon
ed as Slav power, Is II difficult to
why the Balkan countries
might as lief see the Sultan as the /
Car at Constantinople. They are
still essentially Byzantine, and their
position cannot be understood unless
this fact Is kept in mind. Ii union
among them were possible. that
would be the best solution of the I
Eastern question. 1t should not be
forgotten that Bulgaria, Servia and
Greece have all made remarkable
progress since the treaty of Berlin,
and that Albania might have done
But even such a great
nan as Stambulov could not work
! miracle in the face OF common
langeT. There was every reason for
harmonious action after the first Bal !!