in his heart, is the man who counts. The lumpish peasant 

 conscripts of Anatolia are his tools. His dream is to 

 reassert once more the pristine authority of the Turanian 

 races, and to exterminate or Turanize everything within 

 reach. , 



The Arabs are to be robbed of tongue and leading; the 

 Armenians are to be exterminated; Christianity is to be 

 abolished in Turkey ; Islam is to be overthrown and Sha- 

 manism and Fetishism revived ; the British are to be kicked 

 out of India and Egypt ; and Russia is to be paralysed by 

 a Turanian revival in Central Asia. Between the dream 

 and its realization nothing is to stand. 



Turkish national solidarity is maintained within by a 

 terrorist secret society, the knife, the bullet, the bribe, and 

 the massacre ; on the battle front the Turkish peasantry is 

 sacrificed without stint or hesitation; in Afghanistan, 

 Persia, India, and Egypt the Young Turk has endeavoured 

 to cast his spells by fomenting sedition, espionage, assassi- 

 nation, and fanaticism; in Europe, where he has survived 

 by intrigue and corruption through two long centuries, he 

 does not yet despair of the efficacy of these weapons. In 

 England the Young Turk still hopes to maintain a certain 

 sentimental hold on public opinion, which interested poli- 

 ticians and romantic travellers have secured for him in the 

 past. His spurious reputation as a clean fighter he is glad 

 enough to keep as a war asset. In defeat he knows the 

 noble pose, just as in massacre he knows how to shuffle 

 responsibility ; when it is worth while he can assume the 

 airs of a good fellow. He will give a truce to bury the dead 

 just as readily as he will set fire to an Armenian prison, 

 and spare a bandage for a wounded English prisoner left 

 behind in a retreat just as deliberately as he will stick a 

 knife into a pregnant Christian woman. Any little act of 

 kindness which costs nothing, will mitigate his difficulties, 

 and further his war aims, he will perform with the same sub- 

 conscious purpose as he will commit the vilest atrocities. 



His success we must acknowledge ; he has massacred, 

 pillaged, outraged ; for two years and a half he has broken 

 every convention, maltreated our prisoners, killed our 

 wounded, held our women hostages, but he remains the 

 " clean fighting Turk.*' 



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