The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-10-05

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Office, Rahim selem, an
Egyptian regenade who had become a
convert to our cause, Hardyal, an In
dian patriot and scholar, Mahmud
Emid( Turkish clergyman from
Central Asia-Minor, and Baron Won |:
Budich, who had been at the head
of our Intelligence Department In
Turkey until the beginning OF the
war, and who had since acted as the
adviser of our Foreign office on Tur-
kish matters.
Baron Won Budich was truly Or1en-
tai, so much so that I could not dis
tinguish him from the other Orientals
in the room. He was so much imbued
with the spirit of the country in which
he had so long resided that he had
adopted their religion and sometime I
afterward I found out that he had I
taken ito himself four wives But that |
is nothing. AS true servant of the |
service has was acting his part we'll |
Only thus he could gain unquestioned |
confidence of the Ottoman people.
Coached frequently by the other |
Orientals as well as the other Ger
mans in the room, Baron Won Bud1eh |
talked for nearly two hours, instruct
ing me on how our diplomatic situa-
ton at Constantinople stood and what |
was expected of me on reaching that1
city. I did not like Baron Budich
from the very beginning. He had
adopted certain convenient set OF
customs and habits of the Orientals
and was acquiring their manners but
he had never acquired their virtues;
and he had lost all kultur of his faith
erland.s He was coarse. and spoke in
common vocabulary. But with all his
obvious shortcomings he was a thor
,oughly patriotic German. although,
like Baron Won Rautenfels, his ideas
of Secret service were those of
child. What he said, in short, was
this:
Americas entrance into the war
against us had extended the already
growing GOODNESS of the Turks toward
the Alliance. From the beginning it
had been a case of Strengthening the
Alliance through constant loans to
the Turkish government. We had al
ready loaned them more than 100,-l
100000 marks in gold, and 6his did
not include our munitions and other
help which amounted to hundreds of
million of marks. But those at the
head Of the government at CONSTANT
nople were constantly demanding gold
and no other currency would satisfy
them. This would be very well If
these rulers were not corrupt and
applied these sums we SO generously
loaned them to purchasing military
needs, but they were stealing our
money and their people were going
through terrible spfferings. The re-
suit was that serious riots, in which
thousands of Turks were taking part
were becoming more and more COM
mon every day. Consequently, our
Oriental ALLY was becoming weaker
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there were still more serious matters
to consider.
There was a strong feeling amongst
the Moslem clergy against our ku1tur.
At a conference held In an Asia-Min-
or province attended by over 500
i leading Moslem Sofas it was decid-
4 ed that the policy of the rulers Of
iConstantinop1e against these detest-
able Armenian subjects was unmos-
1 lemfc. That was a terrible blow for
our cause in Turkey. One very in
fluential Moslem Softah ad spoken in
1.-THE market place and had told the
1soldiers that Allah would punish both
Moslems and their Allies for the muir
der of all those Armenians. OF
lcourse everyone knew well that this
Sofia had the gold of the treacher-
GUS England. But it was bad policy
4 to say so in public. This softa's maine
was Acknowledgement Bey and he was
regarded as man of God throughout
Asia Minor.
He was no such person: he was a
man of England. He had become sc
, fanaticaI that he finally decided to
visit ConstantinopIe and he demanded
a conference with the Shelk-ul-Islam
! minister of Moslem Religion) and
: made the Sheik state publicly that hs
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the Holy War against the Christian,
!. and that his name was forged to tina
: instrument. Even the Sultan him
q tself had denied and denounced the is
4 Issuance of this decree. As a matter o.
y fact they had issued this order. blu
since Americas entrance into this wa
they became suspicious that our faith
). erland might not come out of the con
. }f1ict victorious. Things were goins
: livery much against in Turkey. Ou
10 Fhated enemies were spending million
i in gold through thousands of Ara,
: Softas all over Turkey to corrupt n
Turkish people and make them be
1ieve that our Kultur was dangerou
n to their religion.
, Now that Sofia who was making a,
| this trouble for us in Constantiopl
WAS a young man, about 35 wears O
age, and the Turkish government ha
admitted that they could not dec
A with him, neither could they punis
b him as he was looked upon as "a ma
y of God" But there was one person i
the world who could remove this enc
my of the fatherland from the estims
e ton in which he stood before the er
tire Moslem population of Turke-
1.-THE Gracious Countess" had rende1
ed many services to the fatherIan
land it was hardly fair to ask more r