THE FATE OF TURKEY.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIV, Issue 36, 5 October 1912, Page 4

THE FATE OF TURKEY.

“A feeling of alarm is creeping over political Europe,” wrote the St. Petersburg correspondent of the Loudon “Daily Telegraph” on August 13. “The general conviction that a set of most awkward problems will suddenly be, rendered actual by the events in Turkey is become the most potent fac-; tor in the calculations of the Foreign Secretaries. Complete readiness for these contingencies is the absorbing care of every Government, and there is not tiro faintest doubt that if the Great Powers were quite prepared nothing could now save the Ottoman Empire from political death. Even as things stand to-day, little hope is entertained that Turkey will survive the ordeal she is undergoing. These are the views of the most influential European statesmen, with several of whom I have recently discussed the matter. Of these, two would fain rescue the Turks, and render their country prosperous, but others desire to see them ousted from Europe altogether. One and all, however, believe that Sick Man’s agony has begun. Parliament is dissolved by the j Sultan, but prorogued by itself. The Cabinet has been called on to resign by the Legislative Assembly, but received an assurance of the monarch’s confidence. Between the Committee and the G overnment a duel to the’.death is apparently- beginning, . and diplomatists are convinced that the -Committee is incomparably better equipped for the combat than its adversary.: The Committee possesses the sole political organisation, in the besides, a numerous following, i, ,in the Army and the Administration.) Endless wars within and without are draining the Resources of the nation, and ■under'-, mining the authority of the Government, and now further international eomplications render the confusion worse confounded. The border quarrel with Montenegro may perhaps be settled peacefully, but the Macedonian Revolutionists appear determined to bring about a general But whatever may be the outcome of this particular conflict, it will not modify the belief of European statesmen that, for the Ottoman Empire the blast of doom has sounded.”