The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1920-08-11
David Street, Inside ,he yata Gate.

10 tho Jaffa Gate.
to understand. Side by side with the
studied cruelty To prisoners of war is
IL 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 and
the fine carved eagles on The roof are
mournfully wrapped round with sncli-
ing. Undoubtedly the Turks now want
to he friends With the British, hut 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 Ms 1t mny, II Is curious to note
that In n conspicuous place In the ar.
morv Of St Irene. now opened to the
public at certain times without special
permission, is Il large quiltlikc sheet,
bearing the replicas OF the flags Of all
the allies. and serving as background
for four large and well-cxecuted nor-
traits Of Mr. Lloyd George. NJ. Clcmcn-
ceau, Marshal Foch and President vii
son. Can anyone imuglne even beat
On England displaying portraits OF
lIindcnburg, Ludendorfr, Rethmann-
Hollweg. or RAntzau In the Tower Of
London?
Racial Feuds Not Lessened
With the Greeks and the Armcnians
the age-long feud continues. embit
tered by the war. and In no way I'm
proved by current rumOrs rs to fnvors
TO be accorded to these countries nj
the expense Of Turkey. Only the pres.
encc Of other allied troops and war
ships prevents rccrudesccncc OF hor
rors only too common during the war.
Although a Brtishcr can go unmolcst-
ed into San Sophia, Greek hardly
dare show himself in the neghhorhood.
and Turkish troops nrc quartcrcd in
side the mosque with the admitted In.
tention of keeping the Greeks out
Life among the Turks themselves IS
little changed. The Yildlz Kiosk still
matches plots. governments rise and
fall, the sultan himself lives in the
greatest seclusion. and no allied sub.
feet Is allowed 10 he present nj the
weekly passage 10 the Selamlik. When
In the middle of Ramnznn he went to
pay his annual vows in San Sophia,
his yacht surrounded by his household
in little motorbonts, the procession was
headed by plnnace hearing 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 We're II no, for two
British motor fire engines, which. how
ever, have the disadvantage Of ex-
hnusting the available water supply
fur 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 Wienchank Vrre;n
have put up their shutters; the crst-
while German club is now the British
officers res:house. A gymkhnna club
has been opened at Mashlak. and golf
and tennis are In full swing. while polo
Is played regularly by British officers
at Biyukdere AMI In the Valley OF the
Sweet Waters the hills around he
decked with all the paraphernalin OF
British military camps.
Trying TO Enforce Sanitation.
The scaveng!ng dogs have dlsap-
peared; the horrors of their end are
well known. Two English Indy doctors
charged with the sanitation OF the
town now force unwilling municipal
authorities to remove garbage from
the streets. and on the whole are fair
iy successful. though the task Is far
from being an easy one.
The sounds most characteristic Of
night In the Turkish capital IRE still
heard: the tap. tap, tap, OF the night
watchman's heavy stan, the cries of
the Greguards. the muczzln's call. Out
wardly there IL little change, but dcep
down are the mutterlngs OF unrest and
uncertainty. and he is an unusually
bold man who attempts TO predict what
will be the fate OF the town which for
| 10 centuries at least has played so Is.
sentlal part In the history of man
! kind, which has been In It's time The