Iron County record. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1893-1982, 1919-12-26

to understand. Side by side with the
studied cruelty to prisoners of war Is
quite reasonable treatment of Brit.
ish residents within the empire. The
British embassy was inviolate--how
different to Berlin now the German
embassy has gone into retirement aud
the fine carved eagles on the roof are
mournfully wrapped round with sack
ing. Undoubtedly the Turks now want
to be friends with the British. but II Is
beyond the scope of this article to dis
cuss mandates and the like The Turk
knows he has been beaten, and Is try
Ing to prove that 1t was not his fault
BE this rs 1t may, II Is curious to note
that in conspicuous place In the ar
morv OF st. Irene, now opened to the
public at certain times without special
permission, Is large quiltlike sheet,
bearing the replicas Of the flags of all
the allies and serving as background
for four large and well-executed por.
traits of Mr.. Lloyd George. NJ. Clemen.
ceau, Marshal Foch and President vii.
son. Can anyone imagine even beat.
en- England displaying portraits OF
Hndenburg. Ludendorfr. Bethmann.
Hollweg. or Rantzau In the Tower of
London?
Racial Feuds Not Lessened.
With the Greeks and the Armenians
the age-long feud continues, embit
tered by the war, and in no way i'm.
proved by current rumors as to favors
10 be accorded to these countries at
the expense of Turkey. Only the pres.
ence of other allied troops and war
ships prevents recrudescence OF hor.
rors only too common during the war.
ed into San Sophia, Greek hardly
dare show himself in the neighborhood,
and Turkish troops are CHARTERED In.
side the mosque with the admitted In.
tentlon of keeping the Greeks out.
Life among the Turks themselves Is
little changed. The Yildz Kiosk still
matches plots, governments rise and
fall, the sultan himself lives in the
greatest seclusion. and no allied sub
iect Is allowed to be present at the
weekly passage to the Selamlik. When
In the middle of Ramazan he went TO
pay his annual vows in San Sophia.
his yacht surrounded by his household
In little motorboats, the procession was
headed by n pinnace bearing the White
Ensign. Otherwise Turks only were
present.
There are no striking changes In the
appearance of the town Fires have
taken larger toll than usual. and would
have taken more were II not for two
British motor fire engines, which, how
ever, have the disadvantage of ex.
hausting the available water supply
far sooner than n score of the anti
quated hand-pumps on which the safe
~ of the town previously depended.
Everywhere German interests and
influence are being eliminated. The
DeutSche bank.and Wienehanl, Vereln
have put up their skaters; the erst-
while German club Is now the British
officers resthouse. a gymkhana club
has been opened at Mashlak, and golf
and tennis are In full swing, while polo
is played regularly by British officers
at lAlA NNhNlt ullAl III NliN NAllNg - VIZ
Sweet Waters the hills around be
decked with all the paraphemalia of
British military camps,
Trying TO Enforce Sanitation.
The scavcnging dogs have diSap-
peared the horrors Of their end are
well known. Two English lady doctors
charged with the sanitation or the
town now force unwilling municipal
authorities 10 remove garbage from
the streets, and on the whole are fair
ly successful, though the task is far
from being an easy one.
The sounds most characteristic Of
E!ght I'm the Turkish capital are still
heard: the tap. tap tap, of the night
watchman's heavy STAFF, the cries Of
the flreguards. the muezzin's call. Out
wardly there Is little change, but deep
down are the mutterings of unrest and
uncertainty, and he is an unusually
bold man who attempts 10 predict what
win be the fate of the town which for
lG centuries at least has played so es-
sential a part in the history of man
Kind which has been In its time the
heart of n great empire.