Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1918-06-13
RYAN TELLS LIFE
AS MISSIONARY
(From Mondays daily.)

Arthur C. Ryan, Red Cross mar
from Turkey, spoke yesterday morning
in the Congregational church and las
evening at the union services held al
the Presbyterian church. The follow
ing tell something Of his life since he
was first sent to Turkey as a mission
ary:
81 went to Turkey on September
1911, as a missionary Of the American
board of Commissioners of Foreign
Missionaries, of Boston, Mass. Was
in Constantinople as the evangelistic
missionary of that station from Sep
tember, 1912, to March, 1916. (From
October, 1911, to September, 1912,
was at Talas, Turkey, studying the
Turkish language and acquainting my
self with the life and customs of the
people Of that country. Owing to the
disturbed conditions in Turkey and the
Near East, much Of my time between
1912 and 1916 was devoted to various
and about Constantinople. Since 1911
Turkey has spent nearly six years en-
gaging in three separate wars with
ten different nations Qtalian-Turk-
ish war, 1911-12; Balkan war, 1928;
present war, 1914. The Italian
war is significant because it started
the ball Of war to roll Italian declara-
ton of war against Turkey turned war
germs loose and they have been busily
at work injecting the whole wide
world The Italian war against Tur-
key encouraged the Balkan nations to
declare war against Turkey so that
they might secure their share OF the
spoils of this sick man Of Europe. The
Balkan nations might have settled the
question of Turkey in Europe if the
greater European nations had not in
terfered to prevent such a consumma-
tion Of this war.
''In these two wars Turkey lost the
last Of her territory in Africa, nearly
all of her territory in Europe, thou
sands of brave soldiers, and was left
practically bankrupt financially.
"Her entrance into the present
world war was a part of German in
trigue in international affairs in Con
stantinople. In January, 1913, the
imperial Ottoman cabinet was under
the influence of England and France,
and was working in sympathy with
these governments. Through a revo-
luton in Turkey en- January 26, 1918,
this pro-entente cabinet was deposed
by men who are now in power in Con-
stantinople by assassinating the min
lister of war and forcing the cabinet to
resign at the point of revOlvers. The
man who has been minister of war in
Turkey for more than four years and
the present prime minister were lead
two men were leaders in forcing Tur-
key. against the will of the sultan, the
royal family, a majority of the people
and five members of the imperial Otto
man cabinet in October, 1914, into
war on the side of Germany. Some of
us feel that the present world war be-
ban not in August, 1914, but in Janu-
airy, 1913, when German got control of
the Turkish government. He hoped to
gain complete control from Hamburg
to the Persian gulf by crushing out
Serbia and controlling Turkey to Buul-
garia.
Turkeys assistance to Germany
has been very great:
81 Being the leading Moslem gov
ernment and holding the califate, her
entrance into the war as Germany's
ally was calculated to be a call to all
the millions of Moslem under British,
French and Russian rule to rise in re-
volt against these enemies of Ger
many. While this failed, it at first
worried these three governments.
"2. The Turkish armies were con-
centrated in Syria and threatened Eng
land in Egypt, especially her control
of the Suez canal. To meet this dan
ger, England attacked at the Darda-
nelles so as to threaten the Turkish
capital and thus to draw the Turkish
away from Syria. In this respect-and
in it alone-the British attack at the
Dardenelles was a success.
"3. The final British failure at the
Dardanelles in August, 1915, encour-
aged Turkey in her morale, brought
Bulgaria into the war as an ally of
Germany, and left Russia so isolated
that her debacle followed in 1917.
81 At the present time Turkey is
marching victoriously over the terri
tory in the Caucasus region and is
threatening to involve Persia, Afgan-
stan and the Moslems of Turkestan in
the war against England at Bagdad.
have no fear of the Germans winning
on the western front, but 1 tremble
lest Germany, through her Moslem
ally, Turkey, may win on the eastern
front and in Mesopotamia. Such g
condition would be serious matter fol
England in Indian and Egypt
'"For generations we Americans
have felt secure with the seas be
tween us and Europe and especially
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