The Cordova daily times., 1916-06-21
TURKISH ARMY |S INDEPENDENT
 IF BERLIN

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 circles the view is held that much
 nonsense is being circulated about the
 relations of Turkey and Germany. The
 many official reports issued on the
 subject have had no result, it is said
 so that now the government offices
 at Stamboul care no longer as to what
 degree German suzeTainty over the Ot- tomau empire is alleged
 The facts of the case are declared to be as follows: Enyer Pasha, min ister of war and vice-generalissimo of the Ottoman army. and the former German ambassador to Turkey. Baron Hans von Wangenheim,- were the men who first brought the Turkish and 1 German governments together on the war issue Both of them took the stand that Turkey would be sacrificed by the entente unless her government adopted a radical measure of joining the central powers. This view was also taken by the next strongest man in Constantinople Talaat Bey, minis ter of the interior. To the group were soon added the grand vizier and the leaders of the Progress and Union party, official title of the Young Turks.
 This was the only connection be- tween Germany and Turkey at the time war was declared upon the en- tente It was discovered soon that things did not always work we'll when left entirely to official channels. The presence in Constantinople of Liman von Sanders Pasha. head of the Ger man military mission, caused consid- eraMe friction. Sanders Pasha was none too we'll liked at the German em- bassy It was said Sanders Pasha con sidered himself entirely an Ottoman officer, and resented even the slight est suggestion from the embassy. In this he was supported by Enyer Pasha, whose loyalty to the field marshal was Iunshakable, even when Berlin sug- gested that he be removed because the operations on Gallipoli were not swift enough.
 The resulting friction never went beyond the bounds of disagreements among friends, but to eliminate it be- came the duty of man in somewhat obscure position in Constantinople, Corvette Captain Humann, command CT of the German naval base here. Captain Humann is in the German i'm perial naval service. though born in Smyrna as son of the Archaeologist Humann, excavator of the ruins of Pergammon. Captain Humann knew Enver Pasha when the latter was a telegraph operator and today the two address one another in the German familiar "du" or thou.
 It fell to the lot of Captain Humann to straighten out all tangles. It is said that he never failed. Born in Smyrna, he seemed to have imbibed with the. air a good deal of the psy- cholOgy of the Oriental. He knows the Turk, his temperament, language and methods of thought, and when Baron von Wagenheim and his aides had failed to persuade the officials in Stamboul they would ask Captain Human to try. But the captain nevel had to go further than the office of Enver Pasha. There would be an ex- Iplanation of what was wanted, and then Enver Pasha would make tele- phone call with satisfaction all around
 That the Germans had ever been able to impose their will upon the Turkish government in despotic manner is an absurd claim. The As eociated Prass correspondent has seen from a number of incidents that the Turkish government officials look upon themselves as full equals in all affairs they have in common with the Germans.
 It is a fact that no officer from Germany ever served in any capacity in the Ottoman army or government as a German officer. Before he could occupy himself with matters distinct Iy Turkish, or before he could issue single order in the Ottoman army the German officer had to enter for mally the service of the Sultan and