The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-11-18
Loss of Mecca Is Price
Sultan May Haze to Pay
Arabs Return to Supremacy i'm World of Islam Result
of Turkeys Entrance in War Is More
Than Possible
PROPHETS SWORD EXCHANGED FOR KRrPp GUNS

~ IN generation ago the proclama-
ton OF tho holy war at Constantnople
would have had meaning far more
terrible 20 Pctrograd. London and Paris
han to-day. Then the whole Moslem
world would have been stirred initial
libly. From the Atlantic to the Pacific,
from Morocco to Mindanao. there would
have been immediate and considerable
rerercussion. India, Slam. Egypt. Trip
oil. Tunis and Algeria would have borue
testimony to the vitality OF the Prophets
creed
Ii to-day the jchad carries less in
slant menace the explanation is to be
found IN the Young Turkish revolution.
Futile as that amazing outbreak was
in the forwarding of It's purpose, to
bring the West to the Near East, CON
Stitutional government and religious
liberation to the Ottoman Empire. 1t did
IN fact shattcr the most vital of all the
forces within the Turkish Empire, the
fanaticism of the army.
For in its prosperous hour. when the
Commute of Union and Progress marched
from Salonica to STEAMBOAT. jew GENTLE
and Moslem. Greek, Albanian, Bulgar and
Osmanli fraternized. christian soldiers
We're admitted to the Turkish armies still
unCouvCrtcd
with all his weaknesses and faults
Abdul iamid has managed to preserve
in his army something of tho tradition
Of his great predecessors. who at the
head OF hosts carrying tn. green ban
ner and fortified by the magnificent
promises Of the Koran had penetrated
to the walls of Vienna and conquered
nearly half Of the lands of European
Russia.
The Young TURKS. en- the contrary,
put aside all this ancient religious IA
naticism. Their exile had been spent
in Paris. Generals cnmmar ding their
armies had been trained in Germany or
In France. The cvncsm of the West
had destroyed all but the s.mblance of
respect for the gospel Of Nohammcd. and
even the outward Respect was frequently
lacking.
/ The effect of the liberal ideas upon
the Turkish army was shown at Lule
! BurgaS and kumanuvo. No longer were
the armies Of the sultan driven forward
to battle 10y the tremendous impulse OF
faith; rather. like mere common soldiers
brave. tenacious. uni.nching, they al
vancrd. suffered and retired. while the
Christian coutingents introduced by the
; Young Turks fed to tho enemy at the
first opportunity
After Lule Burras tho jchad was pro.
J claimed, hut how could II Influence sol.
diegs whose officers We're still In par
, German, whose ancient fire had cooled
/ with the invasion of those destructiv.
doctrines which w.r- the first platform
Of the Committee of Union and Progress
Nrupp Gum for "Prophct's sword
To-day the situation IS hardly different
| Not against all Christians, not against al
I races and tribes against whom IN,
Prophet preached the holy war are Mo-
hammeddn troops to advance. ON tn. con
r. md 4 !.
I excluded from the slaughter In fact
while Turkish troops charge to the ol,
cry OF "Allah-il-Allah, the orders vii
be given by Prussisu officers and tn,
sword o: the Prophet" has been cN
changed for the artill ~ 81" Krupp.
IN Turkey the efrrc, %: AL ms must b,
considerable. bu: outside tremendous |
IL conceivable that the Moslems OF Indl.
might rise to the can OF the Turks
"command,r Of the faithful rejected a
a spiritual primate by most of them, L
! fire." the MohAmmedan world from tn
tyranny, the lntolerahle and humiliatln
E yoke of the Chrietian-hut why shou.
! they desire 30 De to exchange British ~
, German masters
70 II Is crcdih', tina: Arabs and kiby L.
alike throughout IN" great French Mort
, African colonies might arm 10 restore IN
I ancient glories of the Caliphatr. to brin
back 70 F,Z. 10 Hcquine2, 20 Tlomceu. IN
{ spl"ndor Of the past. To restore 10 Kairua
4 the spirit long fled But why should tll
= Arab. the kabyle. the Tuareg of the t;rea
Desert be fred TO earlier frenzy by ca
. which in the voice OF the Sultan Is
, truth only tho trumpet Of the Hoh"nzo
;. lrru and Hapsburg klisrrSH
/, Taken at is maximum there ~ no ~
aggeratinE the peril to France. 70 EnI
, land. even to Russia with millions