The Stratford Evening Post. WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE EGMONT SETTLER. TUESDAY, JANUARY 14, 1913. THE STORM-CENTRE.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 13, 14 January 1913, Page 4

The Stratford Evening Post. WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE EGMONT SETTLER. TUESDAY, JANUARY 14, 1913. THE STORM-CENTRE.

A writer in the ‘Fortnightly Review’ discusses the Balkan situation under tho heading “The Real Storm-centre.” Ho refers particularly to Russian policy in Asia Minor, and declares that the day is not far 'distant when a Iprge slice of territory around Mount Ararat and Erzeroura will pass into Russian hands. But, he says, Groat Britain is bound by the Cyprus Convention to resist any attempt at territorial aggrandisement by Russia in Asia Minor, just as she is bound by the Anglo-Russian Convention to rcspecat tho integrity of Persia. The whole question, the writer considers, is whether Turkey is to remain the bulwark State, or whether Great Britain prefers to open up the endless possibilities of an entirely new situation, and bo a party, willing or unwilling, to the eventual partition of Turkey, with all the fresh problems it will entail. He writes of “Turkey well governed and intact in the Balkans” as a desideratum for Britain, and openly urges that Britain should support Turkey and assist her to reform her Government. 'This idea is pretty well exploded, and very few people nowadays still look upon Turkey as “tho right horse to back.”