The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-01-08

interests, and American contracting
and engineering firms in alliance there
with, had their eyes upon Asia Minor |
and the possibility of its development |
by American railroad enterprise. I was
. astonished to learn that some people |
at Constantinople had authority for |
! the use of the name of J. z. Morgan
& Co. Indeed railroad concession In
Asia Minor, the details of which it is
not now necessary to 90 into, had been
arranged l was told, and lacked onlyl
signatures. The American people felt
that the Germans We're the little devils
under the table who stayed the hand
of the Sultan, and kept his pen off the
parchment. Never would the signature
come down on that paper, although de-
clared to have been many times prom
ised.
The English Oil Concession.
The English were, of course, vitality
interested i'll any railroad concessions
, i'll Asia Minor as opening the route to
, the Persian gulf and India. Money
! talks with Turkey as nowhere else. The
Germans had made a great impression
upon the BosphOrus. Nobody at that
, point in the geography of the world
could fail to see the wonderful CONNER
cial progress of the Germans and the
military power that stood behind ready
= to back it up.
= A concession for a railroad from the
f Bosphorus to Bagdad and through
= Mesopotamia to the Persian gulf, finally
: went to Germany, and the signature
g of the Sultan was at the bottom of
Y the paper. There was, of course, the
Y usual Oriental compromise and the con
/ cession for the oil fields OF AIesopota-
r mia went to the English, hut the sigma
k ture of the Sultan is still lacking to
d that piece of paper.
t English statesmen announced that
n the Bagdad railroad was a purely pri
;, waite enterprise, financed in Germany
: by people associated with the Deutscht
, bank. They bad later to confess that
h error. Germany laughed and later
d openly announced that the BagdaC
railroad was q Prussian enterprise OF
o state. In fact, this concession, which
is likely to be famous in history wheI
: the allies win, was handed over to tn,
German Emperor personally by the Sui
tan.
Already a thousand miles of thi
Z road have been constructed through
n Asia Minor to Mosul. The concession
l. carries the mineral rights for 10 mile
on either side of the railroad, excep
III through the oil fields of Mesopotamia
t said to be among the greatest of tn
A oil fields of the world. They are reall
= part of the famous Russian oil terri
tory between Batum and Baku, or tn
Caspian and Black seas, which extend
lie not only south into Mesopotamia, bu
S, is now being developed far to tn
Is north in the Ural mountains of Grea
-. Russia.
20 The German Alliance with Turkey.
9e Steadily the influence of German
progressed with Turkey, now throug
> one channel, then through anothe
81 When the Bulgarian war broke out
G. was German guns and German officer
lo and German money that upheld ii
r Turks. The French put their none
- on Bulgaria by bank loans to her trea
- ury. The Russians backed Servia. I'll
X, French laughed and so did all EuroI
lie when the Turkish troops manned b
ne German officers were beaten back
~ Constantinople and the Bosphorus.
The Second Bulgarian War
Austria extended the hand of frien,
tn ship to Bulgaria and induced her I
~ attack her allies, Seryia and Greco
ne thus making the second Balkan wa
eS with the result of losing to Bulgar
IS part of the territory she had acquire
or and still further augmenting the il
~ portancp of Servia. Bulgaria has he
ld er forgiven either Servia or Austr
10. for this defeat. She has now no 10y
of for either for, be it known, Servial
al are the pure blooded Slavs, while II
u Bulgarians have Turkish admixtur
~ whence their great fighting qualitie
The Roumanians Just north of Bulgar
IL are Italians and the defeat of Turkt
Mt in Africa by Italy did not lessen Il
NJ Importance of this enterprising matte
on the Danube fronting Austria HUI
DIS gary and Russia. Both Austria al
'er Germany were losers in all three wal
or The treaty ending the second Balk;
70 war magnifed Servia of the Slav ra
- of Russia.
in Austria the Hand of Germany.
Austria, as the hand of German
..,, still demanded a union of all the
= Balkan states with Turkey and und
ny the aegis of Austria which meant,
d1- course, Germany.
Ia The aim of Germany in alliance wi
al Turkey was, through Austria in qua
- sovereignty over the Balkan states,
ne carry German influence by the Bagd
lld railroad right through Asia Minor
lev the Persian gulf. Germany would tn
nat be, when the work was finished,
-ba mighty military empire with rail co,
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