TURKEY FROM WITHIN

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2997, 7 February 1917, Page 5

TURKEY FROM WITHIN

GLOOM, MISERY, DISEASE" AND STARVATION ■ " ' GRAND VIZIER RESIGNS • (Rcc. February' 6, 10 p.m.) London, February 5. A wireless message received by the Admiralty states that tho German Government has received news that the Grand Vizier of Turkey has resigned, for reasons of health, and that. Talaat Pasha is forming a Cabinet, with Edver Pasha as War Minister, Djemal Pasha Minister'for Marine, and Nes6im Bey Foreigu Minister. The "Daily Chronicle's" Amsterdam correspondent says: "A ' well-known commercial financial magnate from Constantinople has arrived hero. Ha paints a gloomy picture of the condition of tho people of Constantinople. It is a starving city. Dozens perish every day from typhus, cholera, and plague. At' present the' terrifying spectro of famine tlireatens European. Turkey. Tho city is in a condition of repulsive dirtiness. A well-to-do man, passing through the streets,' is assailed by an insistent mob of beggars, many of whom aro, maimed soldiers, who whine their various miseries. Thcro are many suicides daily. The Germanised Army. 5 ."Envcr Pasha has swept into tho military net all able-bodied men, and has forced many thousands of women and children to work in factories. Good judges estimate that Turkey has already lost 1 \ million men. Germans aro filling all tho higher commands, and the Turkish soldiery is only kept in order by tho vicious and constant corporal punishment. Even during the actual fighting Turkish soldiers . rvb - hauled from the ranks and severely f chastised. Tho Germans make nn--3 ceasing demands for Turkish Tfiin--3 forcements to fill the gaps in the Bal--3 kan armies, and these demands always - ? r . cato .. resentment and anger in Turks ish military circles, which strongly hold .3 that Turkey is 'primarily concerned ) with Asia. Work is unceasing in the - Government munition factories, under 1 foremen from ICrupps. Many new fac- - tones liavo been erccted. • "Tho financial position is- anarchic. The bettor class Turks feel, that Turkey will lose, ■ whatever happens, and should have kept friendly with: Britain, but they point out that Enver Pasha, Talaat Pasha, and Djemal lasha each (leceivo enormous suras in German money. There is no possibility or a rebellion. The German police keep order with aii iron despotism."—Aus.- : N.Z. Cable Assn. 1 c _____