The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1918-08-10
THE TROUBLES IN TURKEY


Turkey. under German tutelage, has so befouled its nest
not only in Europe, but in Armenia, in the far east of the Turk
ish dominions, that it has forfeited what little of human respect
was left that nomadic and barbaric race. The Turks are the
worst remnants of the Asiatic races, but they have been in
control of some of the best and most historic parts of that
continent and they have dominated the Mohammedan world.
That Turkey entered the maelstrom of this war as a free
acting agent is not true. 1t was the German influence, an in
fluence that had permeated all the activities of the empire
that forced that fatal entrance. The Germans set up one fac
ton against another and tricked the country into the dirty bar
gain. 1t took Adventures and made rulers out of them, being
careful to keep them in subsection to German dictation.
To begin with, the Germans, through trickery, violated the
world treaties that safeguarded the %Bosphorus as well as the
treaties that established the neutrality of Belgium. The two
German warships that were sneaked into the Dardanelles were
taken there and have been kept there in violation of all com
pacts with the nations. They have never been parts of the
Turkish navy. They are German warships, manned by Ger
man officers and the pretenses of sales to the Turkish govern
Iment have not always been maintained even by the Germans.
They are there as German pirates and they have been there TO
intimidate the Turkish officials as well as to overawe the alles
in this war. 1t was with those batueships that the Germans
have terrorized over Turkey.
But Turkey is not entitled to consideration or sympathy
because of this. 1t deserves to be punished, and that severely,
for permitting a gang of upstairs and mercenarles TO oeilVer 1t
ito the kaiser and to do his bidding in inflicting crueltles upon
all nom Mohammedan races within the empire. The Turks, act
ing under German directions, have butchered a million Armen-
ians and in Asia Minor they have visited similar wrath upon
hundreds of thousands of Greeks.
If Turkey should now break with Germany, which is one
of the probabilities of the near future, it probably means that
Turkey. stupid as it has been, sees no further hope of aid from
IGermanv. What can the kaiser now do for Turkey, the kaiser
who will not be able to defend his own lands in the near fu-
lture? What troops can he send to Turkey now to help drive
back the British on the Iigris and in Palentine, where Ghrlstiah
iarmies are freeing oppressed races?
And with the detection of Turkey there is associated I'M
rest in Bulgaria, the little bandit of the Balkans who for spolls
wreaked the worst vengeance on the innocent Serblans.
But if they are now forced to give up their reliance on
Germany, the master barbarian, neither Bulgaria nor Turkey
Loan oxnnct mucb consideration at the hands of the allies. The
allies are committed to Rumania, to Serbia and now also 10
Greece, They will see to it that those three suffering coun-
tries arc given a more secure place in the Balkan world and
it is upon them that civilization can place It's greatest fellahce
while none can be placed on Turkey or Bulgaria.