Photo by Frederick Moore 



TH12 TURK GOES OUT OF EUROPE AS HE CAME 



Long lines of these arabas pass daily over the bridges of the Golden Horn and are conveyed 



to the Asiatic shores bv boat 



Servians and the Montenegrins, who are 

 likewise Slavs, the}^ are most practical. 



WHAT THE SLAV QUESTION MEANS 



\Mien we take up the Slav question 

 we enter at once into the politics of Eu- 

 rope. Why have the European Powers 

 the right to interfere in Balkan affairs? 



It is in the first instance the right of 

 might ; but most of the Powers have also 

 very definite reason or excuse. 



England, the supporter of the Turks 

 in former years, aided them then be- 

 cause the alternative of their occupation 

 of Constantinople seemed to be an occu- 

 pation by the Russians : and England, in 

 spite of the present entente with France 

 and Russia, has never ceased to guard 

 against the Russians achieving their am- 

 bition to acquire ati outlet to a southern 

 sea. 



As is well known, England's perma- 

 nent policy in European affairs is to 

 maintain a divided continent in order 

 that she may remain supreme. She is 

 always to be found balancing the rival 

 European camps, thereby keeping the 

 peace by placing her navy on the side of 



the weaker group. Hostile to Russia 

 prior to the Japanese war, she now forms 

 the Triple Entente by supporting the 

 Franco-Russian Alliance, the Triple Al- 

 liance of Germany, Austria-Hungary, 

 and Italy being, she believes, the present 

 danger to European peace. Hostile to 

 Russia when Russia's ambition was to 

 possess Constantinople, England is now 

 hostile to Austria-Hungary and her sup- 

 porter, Germany, who together appar- 

 entlv covet the possession of Saloniki 

 and hope for the extension of a German 

 shaft of territory from the Baltic Sea to 

 the .Egean. 



England is well satisfied that the Bal- 

 kan States are victorious in the present 

 war. tliough she opposed them when she 

 feared that they, being Slavs like the 

 Russians, would eventually be annexed 

 bv Russia. P.ut the three Slav States of 

 Southeastern Europe liave given very 

 clear proof to the contrary, and as long 

 as thev desire their own liberty of action 

 and it'idependence Great Britain will al- 

 low her Christian sympathies to support 

 those minor States against the Turks. 



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