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

munlcations cleaying the center of Eu-
rope and extending right through to
eastern waters. With her growing
steamship lines she would touch her
colonies in the Pacific and her mighty
naval base at Kiao-Chau in the Far
East.
Now, while Germany is besieged on
all sides and Italy and Roumania are
preparing to go into the war with the
allies that they may have their part Il
and parcel in the settlements. it is rec
ognized that it is none too early for
the allies to consider the map of the
entire eastern hemisphere and tackle
| that most difficult problem, the Bagdad
railroad, from which Turkey, Asia
| Minor, Mesopotamia and Palestine, the |
great historic countries of the world,
must be parcelled out or dominated and |
developed.
The Decay of Turkey.
The followers of Mohammed are no
longer a unit They number 175,000,- |
900 people in the aggregate, but India
and Egypt have gradually receded IN
sentiment from decadent Turkey, now
numbering only about 20,000,000 PEG
pie, and defended by an army OF about
1 100000 vet no longer an army OF
united, fighting Mohammedan Turks,
but mixed army lacking in unity, dis
eipline, efficiency and financial base.
Indeed such are the financial straits
of Turkey that u 10 per cent tax has
been levied upon the property of the
: people. If you hold property in Turk
=, ey and cannot pay 10 per cent of the
value the authorities have assessed
. against it, it may be sold or confiscated
: for the tax.
t Germany Paid.
i Where the money goes nobody knows.
German influence with Turkey has
t financial base Five million pounds
sterling or 10O,0O0,000 marks went
from Germany to Constantinople Just
!, before the war, according to reports !
Il have from people in the international
exchange markets. From diplomatic
Z sources I learn that this was Just one
half of the payment made by Germany
. TO Turkey. The other 100, 000,0 600 marks
was probably paid in war supplies, in
Guiding the two famous German war
ships that the English allowed to
. escape from the Mediterranean into
Turkish waters.
u The little English boy was right who
/ returned from school the other day and
J said: g Murray! I don I have to study
,,t any more geography; the old maps are
:, to be torn up and the new map has not
= yet been made
If The New Map.
n It is because of the making of this
N new map that European diplomacy is
he rolling on underneath the surface faster
IL than ever before. Bulgaria has de
manded as the price of her neutrality
Is that she shall have what Sha lost in tbs
IN second Balkan war. The allies have
on responded: What YOU get must de
es pend upon what Servia gets from Aus
pit tria and in the carving up of Alba
a, MIA Austria-Hungary may lose Bos
ne MIA, Herzegovina, Dalmatia and somt
ly more. So far as Servia acquires terri
RI tory here Bulgaria may push furthe
he south, recovering Adrianople and NOR
DIS sea coast on the Aegean.
ut Roumania wants Transatlantic Jus
he north in Hungary, occupied by two am
at q half million people, the majority Rou
manians-this viii make her 100000
people-and Italy wants territory fror
Austria and naval ports on the Adriati
ny sea.
7r, When Other Nations Join In.
it Neither Italy nor Roumania hay
rs their full war supplies and equipment:
he Servia, however, has been terribl
ey pounded by Austria and but for he
as good fortune in pushing Austria bac
he out of Servia in December, the Rot
pc manians with their 10000 well organ
by lied troops might have had to come t
to her assistance earlier than was pre-
pared for Indeed it is now eXpecte
that Italy and Roumania Will NOV
- against Austria i'll February. Russi
~ ~ and the allies are making their agree
40 ments for this intervention.
w. And what does America know abot
a.; these movements on the Europea
40 40 chessboard and upon what basis shoul
, nu she aspire to be arbiter or peace advi
- eric. w. Barron in Boston News 81