INTERNATIONAL COMMUNICATION.

Maoriland Worker, Volume 3, Issue 45, 19 January 1912, Page 17

INTERNATIONAL COMMUNICATION.

Turkey's Protest

Constantinople, October IC, 1011 Chamber of Deputies, Presidential Cabinet. My Dear Mr. Yandervclde.

In. tho recent events, Italy is not the solo culprit. Tho other Powers are her accomplices, as tho blow that was struck had been prepared by thorn. Their repiv.seiiuthi.is take, us by the throat, and say to us:

'•First, accept tho. occupation, as an accomplished fact, then we will help you to arrange- the matter."

This incone-eivabk' attitudo on the part of Europe afieets us just as much a,s the loss of Tripoli, if we should lose it, for it will w gender mistrust, despair and disgust in the East. Ie will not add to faith in civilisation, in promises, in treaties signed by Europe. This contradiction between word and deed constitute? a. breach of morals.

The Young Turk Tarty, which has been so loyally engaged in making the people love Europe, adopt its ways of progress, and in endeavouring to bridge to West and Islam world, will fail in its duty through Europe's own fault At tho present moment, after the. brutal raid of Italy with the knowledge of the Powers, our internal adversaries complain that wo haw flattered European civilisation and that we have boasted of the benefits that wero to accrue to ua from it. They even go so far as to declare that the real progress lies in the increase of bayonets a.iul cruisers and that real patriotism consists in sacrificing everything to the budget of war. This is what Europe, and prtir.ifc.rlv France and England, have im.ught us to, thanks to their secret treaty with Italy. What think you of the trc.-iti-M ct Paris and Berlin, which formally guaranteed the integrity of the Ottoman Empire? And the people's lights, justice, humanity, moral principles, what signification do you attach to them henceforth?

And see in what manner Turk'y u>sponds to the unworthy spoliation i.l Italy? With a moral sense wliich will hardly be understood in Europe, it cloes iiot banish from its tcrnc-irici, as. it has evrrv rinbt to do, 111' , ■UU-α) Italian laborers,' who. dying of hunger at home, buvc come to us for hospitality and are finding means of oxistence with us. What would become of them, their ivivt?s and their chillrw), if we retaliated on them? This fact, among many others, deserves thought on the part of Europeans, and especially of Socialsits. It is with a. very heavy heart that I remain, sir, yuurs, The President of the Chamber of Deputies, AHMED PASHA.