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REVIEW OF REVIEWS. 



THE FUTURE OF THE TURK. 



General Cherif Pasha contributes to 

 La Revue an article on Turkey and the 

 Committee of Union and Progress, 

 with special reference to Asia Minor 

 and the dangers to which this part of 

 the Turkish Empire is now exposed. 

 Much of his lugubrious anticipation of 

 trouble has already been discounted by 

 the success of the intervention bv the 

 Powers. 



THE MISCHIEVOUS COMMITTEE. 



For four years, he reminds us, he has 

 been waging a campaign against the 

 Committee, and he considers that the 

 gravity of the present situation is suffi- 

 cient to justify his attitude. Turkey is 

 already sadly dismembered in Europe, 

 and she is threatened with further dis- 

 memberment in Asia Minor, while 

 Europe, rightly anxious about the 

 future, is feverishly preparing for a 

 most atrocious war ; and the responsi- 

 bility for this desolating state of things 

 falls directly or indirectly on the Com- 

 mittee. The writer refers to the mis- 

 deeds of the Committee as this "occult 

 association," whose sole object is to re- 

 main in power, no matter what happens. 

 The result of the war in Tripoli must, 

 he thinks, have encouraged the hopes of 

 the Balkan States. Hitherto disunited, 

 they united secretly for common action, 

 and while Turkey's enemies were organ- 

 ising against her, the Committee was 

 doing everything possible to disorganise 

 Turkey. It worked, and it continues 

 to work, to extend complications and 

 diffuse the germs of war. 



THE QUESTION OF THE ,£GEAN ISLANDS. 



The Greek occupation of Samos, he 

 says, is undoubtedly the prelude to the 

 pretensions of Greece to the other islands 

 on the coast of Asia Minor. Should 

 these pretensions be realised, as the 

 coasts of Asia Minor are largely in- 

 habited by Greeks, it will easily be seen 

 what an inexhaustible source of strife is 

 here, in which Turkey has nothing to 

 gain, but everything to lose. Thus the 

 question of Asia Minor is opened. 

 Turkey counts on the mediation of 



Europe. Admitting that Europe under- 

 takes to decide the fate of the islands, 

 and does not recognise the Greek occu- 

 pation, whose business wnll it be to dis- 

 lodge the Greek troops from the islands 

 already occupied? In all probability 

 the task would be left to Turkey, and, 

 in the present condition of the Turkish 

 Navy, Turkey is not able to do it. But 

 the writer believes that the European 

 Powers will ultimately settle the affair 

 of the islands to Turkey's detriment. 

 As to Adrianople, it is no exaggeration 

 to say that the Committee ardently de- 

 sired its fall. The success of the Bul- 

 garians at Adrianople, like that of the 

 Greeks at Janina, has opened up another 

 point in connection with Asia Minor. 

 For if the Bulgarians do not accept the 

 new conditions of peace, they would 

 be aided by their allies to concentrate 

 all effort on Chatalja, and, this last 

 rampart lost, Constantinople would be 

 taken, and the consequences would be 

 incalculable. 



EUROPEAN INTERVENTION CERTAIN. 



Suppose the Allies do not heed Sir 

 Edward Grey's warning. Will the terri- 

 tory they have already conquered be 

 taken from them ? More probably the 

 Great Powers will intervene and take 

 more territory from Turkey. It is also 

 evident that if Turkey does not apoly 

 herself to consolidate her Empire in 

 Asia, a hostile intervention of the 

 Powers will follow. Europe will act, 

 whether it be to the advantage or other- 

 wise of Turkey. If occasion arises, the 

 Great Powers, like the Balkan States, 

 might, in view of a determined enter- 

 prise, unite and sink for the time being 

 their other differences. It is for Tur- 

 key to take care not to offer the least 

 temptation. As to " good government." 

 of w^hich Sir Edward Grey speaks, it is 

 certain that the Committee will not con- 

 stitute it. Nor will the Committee fail 

 to make the financial bankruptcy of 

 Turkey inevitable. At the present time 

 the Committee is busy expelling, with- 

 out rhyme or reason, the Greek Ottoman 

 subjects. Greece will certainly demand 



