New Britain herald., 1914-11-20
CALL ENVER PASHA
 TURKISH NAPOLEON"
Commander Has Full War Plan for
 Russian Campaign.
By Philip R. Mackenzie.

forces are divided into three armies
 the first, under the command of Tur-
 gut Pasla, to operate in Caucasia
 against Russia; the second, under Iz- get Pasha, to attack Egypt, and the
 third, under Enver himself to oper- ate in Europe. As Russia is fully pre- pared against an attempted Turkish ] invasion of the Caucasus the success of the first army is, to say the least, highly problcmatical The plan to in- wade Egypt presupposes the obstruc- tion of the Suez canal, which the Eng fish are guarding against and which if successful would immediately pro- yoke Italy's intervention as England's
 ally, contingency which both Ger
 many and Turkey wish to avert. With the Italian fleet in the Aegean and an Italian eXpeditonary force aiding the English in Egypt and along
 the Red sea the prospect of Turkeys success is certainly not great. As for
 the third army, an alliance with Bull
 garia is indispensable. Were. Bull
 garia to allow the Turks to cross her
 territory and march against Greece
 tt is not likely that after the war is
 over the Turks will evacuate Bull
 sarian territory. The risk is so great that Bulgaria hastened to announce that she will remain neutral and is determined to resort to arms in order to prevent the Turks from invading the country. The strained relations between Italy and Greece relating to the Albanian question no longer exist since Italy oc- cupied Vallona and Greece the Epirus
 a first step toward the repartition
 of Albania. Greece, like Italy, has
 islands in the Aegean to defend against Turkey. Rumania is ready to follow in Italy's wake The Balkan
 conflagration expected by Turkey is bound to follow, but certainly not in Turkeys favor.
 England Avcrts Trouble.
 When Italy abandons neutrality and declares war against her nominal all les Germany and Austria, the merit of this diplomatic achievement will be due exclusively to England. The weakening bonds of the triple al- liance were strengthened owing to the conflict between Italy and France in consequence of the arrest and search by Italian warships of the two French steamers Carthage and Manouba, sus- pected of carrying Turkish officers and contra band to Tripoli toward the end of November, 1912. Although this incident was eventually referred to arbitration it led to such violent Outburst of anti-Italian hysteria in France that the memory of it still ranked in Italian minds three months ago, when Germany declared war on France and all but dragged Italy with her.
 Fortunately England stood by nd fn 14I xyt,1, the Italians traditional hatred of Austria and the hope of winning Trent and Trieste, persuaded Italy to remain neutral Since the beginning of the war England has been silently and cleverly working to draw Italy over, and this work has proved so successful that Italian statesmen now l openly admit that Italy's intervention | will be on England's side. The rela- | tions between Italy and England have | recently been clearly explained in a | cleverly worded interview which ap- peared in the Idea Nazionale, the of- | ficial organ of the Italian National ists. It is an open secret that this in- terview came from an official Brit ish source, and it's significance and importance are so obvious that com ment is unnecessary The interview
  viz: Italy and Albania, Italy's inter- vention, contraband of war and An glo- Italian joint action against Fur key, as follows:
 With regard to Albania, the al- most simultaneous Italian occupation of Vallano and the Greek occupation of the Epirus has been wrongly attri- buted to British diplomatic pressure in Rome and at Athens. This of course is mistake. England has no particular interests in Albania and hence has never followed a Balkan policy. Her efforts since the Balkan war have been limited in trying to conciliate the different standpoints, often widely divergent, of the great and small powers in regard to Albania in order to diminish causes of friction. helped to conciliate Italian and Greek interests in southern AL bania, which recently suffered from a prevailing state of anarchy. English interests were purely Humanitarian. The provisional solution of the ques- ton of the Epirus, now occupied by Greece, removed a cause of friction with Italy and when the war is over and the question of Albania re-ex- amined neither Italian nor Greek in ,erests will be sacrificed.
 Advantages to Italy.
 "The British government does not oppose Italy's Adriatic policy. Tho question of Albania is merely one of $ he many problems of such a policy. There are of course others whose sol ltion may be imminent. England does 1ot influence Italy's policy in order I o change the attitude of the govern z nent in the present European con lict There are many people who { hink that Italy's intervention would C shorten the war; but of V .ourse this question has to be decid-