GERMANS HATED IN TURKEY.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 1724, 12 June 1917, Page 1

GERMANS HATED IN TURKEY.

An American, who has lived and travelled in Turkey, writes to the New York Outlook, expressing a firm conviction that the Gorman and Turkish natures are incompatible*. He says:—During my residence of three and a-haif years in Turkey the opportunity lias come to me to visit most of her big cities, to gel into intimate relationship with her people, and at the same time to make numerous acquaintances among the Germans within her borders. Since the outbreak of (he war 1 have visited one of the Kaisers t - boats in the Mediterranean, have spent several months in a hospital with German soldiers, and have made a 10 days’ land journey over the Bagdad railway route from Syria to Constantinople. Numerous instances of the incompatibility of the German and the Turkish natures have come under my notice. The Germans seem to have no capacity whatever’ for seeing things from any viewpoint other than their own. The Turks, on the other hand, while respecting the ability of their Teutonic allies, and even realising to a certain extent their own inferiority, arc not willing to be bullied into conformity to a German system of life and conduct. Then pride clashes with pride. The result is wrangling and strife. The Germans, because of their intluential position in military circles, generally get the upper hand. But deep down in the hearts of their “comrades in arms” there rankles a feeling of resentment which is fast growing into hatred.