The sun., 1918-12-01

GeFnlany and her representatives IN
Turkey.
Mr.. Hugh Gibson, in his Journal from
Our Legation in Belgium, tells a story
that shows the character of the German at
war with dazzling fash of illumination.
Germans were looting a museum. Mr..
Gibson, camera in hand, asked an officer
if he might stake a picture" Surely"
the officer replied. "There is a wagon fun
of them. Help yourself" We are not
quite sure that the German idionl matches
the English perfectly enough TO Justify
the pun. Nor, if our German were COM
plete enough for certainty, would We
dare employ it openly for confirmation
or refutation of the tales inherent We
rseity. But 81 non e we're, and 50 on.
And Ambassador Aorgenfhau tells a
still better story, because its giveaway is
equally complete, depends on no play
upon words and carries a still more damn
ing implication. It goes like this:
At the first diplomatic dinner given by
Ambassador and Mrs. Morgenthau Gen.
Liman Won Sanders, German commander
of the Turkish army, sat through the
evening like a suIky child. At the end
of the dinner the German charge d'affaires,
greatly agitated, sought out his American
host and complained that the Field Mar
shal had been seated lower than the Turk
ISL Cabinet Ministers and the Ambassa-
dors-which was an affront to Che Kaiser,
as the General was the personal repre-
sentative of the Kaiserp
Mr.. Morgnthau had clear defence IN
the fact that the seating had been ar
ranged by the Austrian Ambassador and
dean Of the diplomatic corps. Wangen-
helm, the German Ambassador, called on
PallaVicini, the Austrian, and. made an
energetic complaint. PaIlayieini asked:
of Liman Won Sanders represents the
Kaiser, whom do you representa-" And
there was no escape from that dilemma
Of diplomatic precedence. But, as Mr..
Morgenthau says, "Von Sanders's per-
sonal vanity had led him to betray dip
lomatic secret; he was not merely dill
master who had been sent to instruct the
Turkish army, he was precisely what he
had claimed to be-the personal repre-
sentative Of the Kaiser" This incident
and others like it-still more deeply sig
nifeant, many of them-coming before
the beginning Of the war, serves to show
just how Germany was working.
Yoke Fellows.
All the devils in he'll must have split
their sides with laughter at the spectacle
Of these two powers, the German and the
Turk, jockeying for position: Germany
needing Turkey to cut Russia off from
her western allies and sources of supply,
yet striving, while Bullying her into sub
mission, to use her as a tool rather than
to make an ally of her and SO admit her
to claim to a share of the confidently
expected spoils; and Turkey, chilled to
the marrow with fear of the TeutOn ma
chine, trying to use Germany 10 develop
and train the Turkish army and navyAnd
to fix herself in q position where she
could demand a share of the booty if
Germany won, but escape assessment If
she were defeated
The first part of the record has to do
with the pre-war and early war days; the
second with Turkeys treatment of the
Armenians after she got into the war. All
through the first part stalks the forlni-
dable and repulsive figure of the German
Ambassador, the treacherous, unscrupu-
lOus Wangenheim- From him Mr.. Nor
genthau had, in conversation after con-
versation, cumulative proof to add to the
crushing weight Of utterly incontroverti-
BILE evidence from widely separated
sources of the black guilt of Germany.
AT Potsdam, July S, 1914.
Take for example the story of the Pots
dam conference of July 5, at which the
moment for the opening of the attack on