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golden bridge may have been found. Italy 

 is evidently prepared to modify her attirudc 

 considcrably.and in any case to leave the re- 

 ligious suzerainty with the Caliph. In place 

 of an indemnity to Turkey it is probable that 

 the majorirv at least of the islands which Italy 

 has been '-collecting" will be handed back — 

 possibly to the sore discomfort of their Chris- 

 tian population. There will be a great sigh 

 of relief wlien this stalemate war is ended, 

 and the Young Turks can at any rate plume 

 themselves on having well gained their point 

 ao-ainst a Great Power. Let the satisfaction 

 urge them to efficient internal organisation 

 and reform. In Italy universal male suffrage 

 has been introduced, the illiteracy of the 

 majority of the new electors being some- 

 what counterbalanced by the effects of 

 military service and the new patriotism. 

 Because that is, as we have held before, the 

 great result of the war — it has wiped out 

 tlie diflerence between the Whites and the 

 Blacks in Italy. 



Of all the news from Con- 

 Turkey -11 

 to stantinoplc there is none 



Follow of better omen than that 



Japan's Example. ^^^ j^j^^ ^f making USe of 



the services of foreign advisers is gaining 

 ground. 'i "his would indicate a serious 

 endeavour t(j grap|)le witli the many and 

 urgent questions which now confront rlie 

 Young lurks. Much sympathy has been 

 losr in foreign countries because of an 

 ap|)arent delay and hesitation in setting the 

 1 iirkisii house in order. Sufficient allow- 

 ance has, we tiiink, not been made for the 

 lack of comj)etcnt and properly trained 

 officials to carry out or initiate the obvious 

 reforms in Macedonia, in Albania, and in 

 Armenia. Hut the Young Turks must now 

 sec that it i^ to imperil the whole of their 

 work if immediate steps arc not taken to 

 set matters right. An announcement that 



compreliensive reforms were to be at once 

 introduced into the vi/ai/ctx, backed by the 

 enpasement of a considerable number of 

 foreign advisers and officials, would do 

 much to avert possible trouble in the very 

 near future. Therefore we are glad to find 

 the Tallin whole-heartedly advocating this 

 policy : — 



II (it says) we complete that which is wanting, if we imitate 

 the Japanese in having recourse for a time to the experience of 

 specialists, we shall reap the benefits ; but if we allow ourselves 

 to be carried away by harmful pride, to undertake things which 

 we are unable to carry out, it is we who will have to support all 

 the consequences. The want of European specialists in all 

 branches of the .Vdministration is just as urgent to-day as at the 

 beginning of the Constitutional era, especially in the affairs of 

 the Roumelian provinces. We should no longer hesitate or lose 

 time. It is our object to attract European public opinion to our 

 side, to convince it that we want to ensure justice in Macedonia, 

 and to persuade it that if the situation in Roumelia is not normal, 

 the fault is not ours, but that of foreign instigators. 



This is sound good sense, and no time 



should be lost. Surely Japan demonstrated 



once and for all that if a nation be sure of 



itself, good and not harm comes from the 



utilisation of foreign advisers. 



Japan was able to seek her 



Englishmen experts and her foreign 



„ ^ , advisers from all the world 



Save Turkey. 



at will, but so wide a 

 choice is not for Turkey. It has become 

 too much the fashion for great nations to 

 regard 'these experts, who should be 

 volunteers of international friendship, as 

 so many agoils /jronxatciii-.s, or excuses for 

 increasing material, if not territorial, hold 

 upon tiie country which i-. being helped, 

 'i'lius Turkey must avoid the enlistment 

 in iier regenerative service of those who 

 come from countries who ma\' or who 

 hope to benefit tVoni Turkish partition. 

 It is not for Russians or (iermans or 

 Austrians to undertake the work, if onlv 

 because it would be resented by all the 

 neighbouring small States who have so 

 much to say in the peace or unrest of 

 Macedonia and Albania. Americans might 



