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Photo by Frederick Moon 

 TURKISH RKCRUrrS ARRIVIN'G IX SALOXIKI l-ROM ANATOLIA 



the intolerable conditions under which 

 their fellow-Christians were oppressed. 



The Turkish people clamored for war, 

 and the wiser heads amon,^ them under- 

 stood that war was inevitable. Tiiose 

 wiser heads had come to realize that they 

 were unable as a race to rule subject 

 jieoples except by the sword. They 

 knew. too. that each of the Balkan 

 States — and this was perhaps the most 

 important factor — was ambitious to an- 

 nex territory. 



Underlying these motives of the Allies 

 was a deep desire for vengeance on the 

 Turk, There was not a Christian family 



in European Turkey whose property and 

 hard-earned money had not at some time 

 been taken by some IMohammedan ; not 

 a family without a record of parents 

 slaughtered in massacre; not one which 

 had not mourned a daughter enticed or 

 taken forcefully to the harem of some 

 lustful Turk. And what recourse was 

 there for the Christians in a Turkish 

 court of justice? 



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The situation was one that only war 

 could .settle. The Turks saw that to ac- 

 cede to the demands of the Allies would 



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