Norwich bulletin., 1918-10-12

out letting it be known-a procedure which has not cased his relations with the committed his masters.
 And then there is the debt, multi
 piled during the war and aggravated by official inefficiency an1 corruption. The ministry of finance has to de- scend from balancing hudsets and dreaming of developing latene nation al resources in the future to meeting deficits from month to month. D1avid
 exploiting the vanity of the new
 Turkish capitalism" and Fartly, per- haps, suecumbing to the illusion him. self, proposed; to meet some 0f these
 deficits by an internal loan. The In- terest was to be paid in gold and the
 first coupon in advance-:i bribe, in- deed, to Turkish investors considering the ratio in which gold and paper stand. But, alas for Djavitl. less than ET14,900,e00 out of the GTS2,- 100000, asked for has been sub then a government which offers such dazzling conditions must be in ex- treme financial straits, and such brIbes act as deterrents when t;1ey surpass a certain degree.
 Lack of funds will not bring Tur- key to halt for. a. Djayifl was care | full to mention iH iiis announcement 4 of the loan, any margain left unsub- | sCribed was to be made good tv Ger | many. Already the war debt to Ger many dwarfs the modest commitments l of earlier date to creditors of Eng l fish, French, or neutral nationality. | The grip of Germany over Turkey $ | tightening, but the situation has its anxieties sar Germany. too. It is not arnuSing for real politicians" to sink their money in a rotten concern, and l Turkey IS so rotten that she is not l only imperiling GeFmany's invest Gents. but actually jeopardizing tAe l conduct of the war. Five million deaths may not throw the committee of union and progress from the sad dle, but they are bound to weaken
 Turkeys fighting power After try ing argument, cajolery,. and intrigues
 Germany has been driven to coercion and she was reported recently to have informed the Turkish food controller
 that Turkeys share of supplies iron
 the Ukraine would not be delivered
 unless he undertook to keep the profit l eers in order and to distribute tht
 food with some show of equity.
 But Turkish of1cialdom, must no l be eoerced too much, for it is fanatic
 ally convinced that the Ottoman Elm
 pire exists for it's profit, not for Ger 1 manX's, and droWns German com plaints in louder reeriminations of it
 own. Why are Bagtlad and Jerusa lem left in English hands whi;'
 Germany is making fabulous con
 quests in every other direction? It ha needed all the eloquenee of German < diplomaey to persuade Turkey tha
 her lost provinces will be recovere
 by a military decision on the westerl . front. That formula has had to t;d over a year of continual British ad
 vances on the Palestine and Meso potamian fronts, and the resuItan i tension in Turco- German relations
 plain to see. Tn some measure tn German staff has been forced to de ! part from its plan and comfort tn D Turks in Palestine with local Ger , man aid. But here, too, there wer f pitfalls When F'aI5enhavn cam down to Syria he found himself com
 1 pelied, in the interests of military ef
 | fciency, to take over the entire "a , tieniz:g of food. The local goFernor
 indignant at this curtdilment of thei I 1 hrescriptive peculations. complained
 Censtantinople, and when the Cen f tral Government upheld the foreigne c 1 revenged themselves by instigati tin
 the local population to evade the reg 2 ulations he had introduced.
 : The Germans are in a dilemma Il they send no help they offend in ar :. other way, Turkish exasperation ha y reached pitch at which further ol $ fense may bring disaster upon Ger ?. man policy.