Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1915-01-01
N ENGLAND IN 1912, wAs

II key 10 the circumventuous political
D life and the government Of Constan-
Il tinople. Il took me fun month
> Of night work to become familiar with
& the innumerable domi- mondaines. They
= were Of French, Russian and Circas-
q sion birth and extraction, and were
r identified with The Grand yisier down
z 10 an officer ia the Janizaries. This
preliminary work il always exhaust
ms Dut it is 20 necessary on mis-
sion 81 this kind. One blunder. one
step in the dark, and you are gone.
, one spends months without any tam
, gible results, often going on the wrong
track. one has 10 be excruciadngly
circumspeet In ones inquiries. To
use a hunters expression. there is no
quarry so wary, sharp-sishted and
keen at smelling the wind as a polti-
cal demi-mondaine
In this work Kim was Of inestin-
able value to me In fact, without him
! would not have succeeded at all All
the households kept by the Turkish !
officials and their favorites. swarm !
with negroes of the various types. A |
white man has not the slightest chance
of finding a way into their condolences.
The universal golden key does not
Gnloose tongues in such cases in the
Orient. But Kim as member of the
once mighty Zulu nation Che was
really a descendant of prince of the
house of Dingaan) was able. through
a mysterious freemasonry still exist
ing among colored races the world
over, to obtain most valuable infor-
nation.
My method of campaigning was to
ascertain the name of one of the ia
vorites of the Turkish officials, to
locate her residence and then put Kim ,
to work. Finally locating one of these s
women, l would manage to learn her
name and where she lived. Then it 6
was time for Kim.
Kim" / said. 81 want you to find c
out who comes to see her, whether s
1t is always the same official and il /
so, how frequently. l want you to y
learn everything you can about any
letters she may receive. I want to a
know just where she gets her money I
from, If she has any outside resources Il
Of revenue other than in Constanti- 7
nople want every scrap of any I
kind of information about her" n
And Kim would go his way. seek p
out the servants in that household and s.
he would generally come back with d
al this information. p
A Certain Mile. Balniaux. Il
Now l noticed that a certain Mile.
was very much in the COM
,any of Abdulla. who was at that time
he influential advisor of the Grand =
vizier. 1t was known in Berlin that .
he Grand Vizier had lately become :.
'ery deaf and antagonstic to German
influence. The Wilhelmstrasse knew w
hat France and Russia We're at work, -
,ut were in the dark as to the chan
lels. Therefore l sent Kim to ascer-
ain If Mile Balniaux was visited by =
>bdulla Mt her private residence
old him to learn the exact hour of
rival in each instance and the length -
+ the visits. ;,
The bare fact that Abdulla might be :.
cen in her company in public bore no
articular significance. These women 7,
re always accompanied by a whole =
eAinue of officers and officials at a.
ach them to their person, make them 90
pend huge sums of money and then -.
lay their card. | noticed that the 9,
honey Turkish officers squandered on 49,,
nese women compared to their pay ro
nd income was tremendous. They a,
mink nothing of going ahead blindly
nd buying the most expensive jewels. To
have seen them even buy motorcars. -,
he result is not difficult to forecast
The young officer soon finds himself ~,
cad over heels in debt Two coures
70 open TO him. Either he must pay "a
he debt or be transferred to some IN
rcary interior post and a Turk who ,
IS been in the say life Of CONSTANT =.
nple would rather commit sutside -
ian go TO an inland garrison Those ,,s
omen then pay the debts. exacting i,
ate secrets as the price OF their time on,
assistance raa
Abduila. therefore might only be one 4
these hangers-on. Kim established no,
injections with Mile Balniauxs
,usehold and soon l had the re-
tired information. He brought me
tiers and scraps OF paper that Mile
llniaux' dark skinned servants had ish