Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-06-11
SALONIKI And CONSTANTIN0PLE


Dispatches from Petrograd announce
a Russian ADVANCE along the entire
rroc, Tho
... .. th.
Rumanian frontier; from
Advance. ~. C.,,,,. front that
."e 60
the Russians mad occupied Saki1 anu
Ran. The latter dispatch discioses
... ~. ,-r,,., NJ tho
'iie ooJec'ises VI eho
Russian Grand Duke Nicnoias' thae
is a movement by the Persian flank
q. p.~a,a uh,,. otber
from Dan 10 Dasu~u' ""e 90,
armies from Erzerum move TO siVas
and Angora and to Dtarpekir TO Mosul'
vi '"e ,,,.s.
vast enveioplng movement ~"oSe
grand detectives are at once Alexan-
dretta. on the Mediterranean, and Con-
.,,, r.. -. ,,d;cat,ons ~
co-opeTdeNo oo'nSo A
r,- ..-,.or, a,a
So 'an sa.,...,,, =, Mental
sE,S,,-. ~. .orr,.nder ~
ro.;.a 80 constantinonle
the direct route is along the llttOrdi OF
the Black sea- paraNei Io"se runs
, ,rS.n I, nnnn.ct. with a railroad ter
minus from Constantinople (Scutaril.
The Black seasnore rou.e na tnr III.
sasv nrovis;on;nr of the army, but the
route is steep and difficult. me CEN
trai columns Dy lne on 20 ok miles,
The route is practicable, and. besides.
necessary for the protection OF .ne sra
route coiunin, o,,,a N. nromntiy estab-
,ished from Angera with Sinop on the
sea. in direct communication with Sc
niles for the Russian armies moving
west to Constantinople and to Alexan-
dretta.
When the political divisions were
quite different from the actual combi-
nations when England was nostiIe 10
both Russia and France. Gen. Niox,
then USS2) professor of military geog-
raphy at the military school, wrote:
THE route from Erzerum 10 Aie~Ah-
dretta is the shortest line by which the
pussians NAV attain the
- u...., ,,d
Strategic Meoiterraheah h''oi al aAu
consequently the principal
Routes, ah;sot;v. ~ their enter
III, s.an,,sb
prises one gay 'hes WIN
themselves militarily on that line anu
.hey mill Inherent all the commerce
r,o En.1;sb watch
OF India oy iano. Inc ENG i'H
with attention Russian progress and
hIocL ~ NV all possible means. The
H., 81. p,s-
conquest OF AieHahor W INV
SLAMS, in giving them an outlet on the
| 60. frao, tha S,,a1
=, ,,,ort.noe creator
canal VIII nave al iihpoi '"
still perhaps than the conquest OF Con-
stantinople. England fastened to ne
gotiate with the porte the occupation
| of the Island of Cyprus and to occupy
herself with questions of the interior
organization of the provinces OF ASIA
Minor"
Parallel to the situation defined by
Gen. Niox in 1882 it should be recalled
| that in that year a German military
commission was sent to Constantinople
| to reorganize the Turkish army. In
! 1889 the Deutsche Bank obtained the
concession of railroad from Constan-
tinople to Konia and subsequently to
! Bagdad. In 1889 the kaiser went to
Damascus to proclaim himself the best
friend and protector of the Moslem. In
1902 the Bagdad railway. mining and
other concessions to Germany an
ment IN tneir plaee =. .se re. ni;. ~ ~
| "Sranv mach osten" which precipitated
| the actu.l war.
Every political fault must be PAID
,or anu ~ tn,,'t nnnmittea IN Erynt
and Africa, for her occupation of Egypt
and persistence IN remaining mere
asspiar s Erancs were renSered