The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-01-01


studied cruelty to prisoners of war is
q quite reasonable treatment of Brit
ish residents within the empire. The
British embassy was inviolate-how
different to Berlin nov the German
has gone into retirement and
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 it is
beyond the scope of this article TO dis |
cuss mandates and the like. The Turk /
knows he has been beaten, and is try I
ing 70 prove that it was not his fault /
Be this as it may, it is curious TO note I
that in a conspicuous place in the ar
mory of st. irene, now opened TO the !
public at certain times without special |
permission, is q 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 VIII
son. Can anyone imagine even beat
en- England displaying portraits of
Hindenburg. Ludendorn, Bethmann-
Uollweg. or Rantzau in the Tower of
London?
Racial Feuds Not Lessened.
With the Greeks aad 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
TO be accorded to these countries at
the expense of Turkey. Only the pres
ence of other allied troops and war
ships prevents q recrudescence of hor-
rors only too common during the war
Although a Britisher can go unmoleSt-
ed into San Sophia, a Greek hardly
dare show himself in the neighborhood,
and Turkish troops are Quartered in
side the mosque with the admitted IN
tcntion of keeping the Greeks out.
Life among the Turks themselves is
little changed. The Yildiz Kiosk still
hatches plots. governments rise and
FL, the sultan himself lives in the
greatest seclusion, and no allied sub
j It is allowed 70 be present at the
eekly passage to the Selamllk. When
Z - l3-t 1-ilNAAC Va 1AdlLtSA%sAAA i4S N[lA W
Ply his annual vows in San Sophia
his Yacht surrounded by his household
in little motorboatS, the procession was
h AIDED by a 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 it not for two
British motor fire engines. which. how
eyer, have the disadvantage of ex-
hausting the available water supply
| far sooner than score Of the anti
quated hand-pumps on which the safe
II of the town previously depended.
Everywhere German interests and
induence are being eliminated The
| Deutsche bank and Wienebanll Verein
have put up their shutters; 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 Biyukdere and in the Valley OF the
Sweet Waters, the hills around be
decked with all the paraphernalia OF
British military camps.
trying to Enforce Sanitation.
The scayenging dogs have diSap,
peared the horrors OF their END art
well known. Two English lady doctors
charged with the sanitation of thu
town now force unwilling municipal
authorities to remove garbage from
the streets, and on the whole are fair
ly successful though the task is fal
from being an easy one.
The sounds most Characteristic O
night in the Turkish capital are still
heard: the tap, tap, tap, of the nigh
watchman's heavy staff, the cries o
, the fireguards, the mue2zin's call. Out
: wardly there is little change, but deel
down are the mutterings Of unrest ant
> uncertainty, and he is an UNUSUAL,
: bold man who attempts to predict wha
: will be the fate Of the town which TO
: IS centuries at least has played so es
sential a part in the history of man
! kind, which has been in its time tn
t heart of a great empire ~
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