The Stratford Evening Post WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE EGMONT SETTLER TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1915. THE DOOM OF TURKEY.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIII, Issue 7, 7 September 1915, Page 4

The Stratford Evening Post WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE EGMONT SETTLER TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1915. THE DOOM OF TURKEY.

Despite ihe most strenuous Efforts p Enver Pasha aiiif Hie German shrift ■ makers 1 , it seems impossible to Jurthe stiffen ii]) the TuTßrelf troop's nf'face 0 what they now know of the foemei they have had ttfYnev'tV 01' course till' Gallipoli campaign is a long and cost ly : affair. It lias taken heavy tribute in valuable lives, many of them brav< men from our own firesides. But, as those who are directing affairs, aiu who know the exact object aimed at tell us, the people who are inclined t< pessimism when they hear of a great battle resulting in only a gain of a thousand yards, are ignoring important facts. The drain upon us of this enterprise is no doubt severe; the conditions under which the Allies' troops are fighting are as heavy as any troops have ever been called upon to face; hut if,this is so, what is to lie said of the drain upon Turkey and of th.fl conditions under which the unhappy Turkish armies are maintaining their desperate defence? It has been well said that Turkey is bleeding to death. Her soldiers have bravely faced, the battle, but ill-equipped in some regards, they are despondent and dissatisfied! They remember that they have behind them a half-starved capital with which communication by sea has already been cut off. and with which communication by land grows daily slower and more uncertain through the shortage of coal. They have in front of them an active and admirably-equipped enemy, whose numbers and resources are constantly increasing and are bound to increase so long as he commands the sea. Week after week a few more trenches nre lost, at fearful cost to their dofenders ; and they are never permanently regained. The Turkish soldier s showing in these circumstances, as le has shown throughout his history, hat be knows how to die: but lie is lying in a lost cause. It is a strange ate that- the sons of Britain should be )laying so Inrge a part in tin; smashing »f Turkey when for years it has only >een by the power and support of Briaiu that the "Sick Man of Europe" ins been permitted to live at all as a European nation.