Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1918-07-30
LITTLE SURPRISE.

CAUSES LITTLE SURPRISE.
Washington July 29.-While no
official notice of the breach of rela-
tons between Turkey and Germany
or rather the central powers, for with
out doubt Austria is Involved with
Germany in the dispute with the OF
toman goveriment--has reached Wash
ington, officials expressed little sur !
prise tonight at the Copenhagen dis
patcn received from London saying
that Germany and Turkey had severed
relations. .I
Serving Two Masters.
In official circles here for some time
past it has been realized that in her
efforts to serve both Turkey and Bull
garia in the division OF spoils resulting
from the enforced treaty with Run1a-
mia, Germany had incurred the i'll
will of both her allies.
Following the conclusion of the
pact at Jassy, both Turkey and Bull
garia laid claim to much of the terri
tory which Rumania has been forced
to cede to her enemies.
Belief in Turkey that favoritism
was being shown Bulgaria by Ger
many in the negotiations, according
to recent dispatches received here.
caused a rapid growth of anti-Ger-
man feeling in Constantinople. A
shortage of food, WEAKNESS of the war
and dissatisfaction with the young
Turk party because Of its submission
to German control recently found ex-
preston in Constantinople in food
riots and mutinous uprisings, which
have been sternly suppressed by the
military authorities.
Turkey War Weary.
That Turkey has become more and
more weary of the war was indicated
in the failure of the latest Turkish
loan in June. According to Swiss dis
patches only f12,000.0O0 was OBJ
tanned out of G32,000,000 sought.
However, there was considerable
doubt in the minds of officials here
whether severance of relations, even
if actually brought about, would be
permanent.
1t was also pointed out that the
Turkish army is officered almost en-
tirely by Germans, and that while the
Turkish diplomatic authorities might
sever relations with Germany, the ar
my would remain thoroughly German.
Many Disputes.
Announcement was made in the
Reichstag June 8 that differences had
arisen between Bulgaria and Turkey
over the division of lands taken from
Roumania under the peace agreement
with the central powers. The an.
nouncement was made by DR., Won
kuehmann, the German foreign. sec
retary, who added that the question
was difference of opinion between
two of Germany's allies, to whom
Germany was bound by exactly equal
ties, and that everything must be
avoided which would cause the I'M
preston to prevail abroad that Ger
rnany's policy favored the claims of
the one ally at the expense of the
other.
Inc SoloSHC SdZctle carly IN June
asserted that the differences between
Turkey and Bulgaria involved a GER
tain danger that the work of har-
mony achieved by the central powers
at Bucharest may suffer" The news
paper added that both Bulgaria and
Turkey were claiming Germany's full
support in their respective interests.
Announcement was made some
time ago that Germany and Turkey
were in hot dispute over the dispo-
sition of Russia's Black sea fleet.
Pan-Turkey Move,
Turkeys ambitions in the Black sea
and in the Caucasus recently were
attacked by the Pan-German Berlin
newspaper Kreuz Zeitung
Turkeys idea." said the newspa-
per, seems to be to get in dominat-
ing position in the Black sea. making
the Pan-Turkish idea paramount
there and creating in the Caucasus a
strong rampant between Turkey and
Russia. Hence German policy is con.
fronted with difficult tasks"