receded in sentiment from decadent Turkey, now numbering only about
20,000,000 people, and defended by an army of about 1,000,000. But
this is no longer an army of united, fighting Mohammedan Turks; only a
mixed army lacking in unity, discipline, efficiency and financial base.

Indeed, such are the financial straits of Turkey that a ten per cent
tax has been levied upon the property of the people. If you hold
property in Turkey and cannot pay ten per cent of the value the
authorities have assessed against it, it may be sold or confiscated for
the tax.

Where the money goes, nobody knows. German influence with Turkey has a
financial base; 6,000,000 pounds sterling or 100,000,000 marks went
from Germany to Constantinople just before the war, according to
reports I have from people in the international exchange markets. From
diplomatic sources I learn that this was just one half of the payment
made by Germany to Turkey. The other 100,000,000 marks was probably
paid in war supplies, including the two famous German warships that the
English allowed to escape from the Mediterranean into Turkish waters.

The little English boy was right who returned from school the other day
and said, "Hurray! I don't have to study any more geography; the old
maps are to be torn up and the new map has not yet been made."

It is because of the making of this new map that European diplomacy is
rolling on underneath the surface faster than ever before. Bulgaria
has demanded as the price of her neutrality that she shall have what
she lost in the second Balkan war. The Allies have responded: "What
you get must depend upon what Servia gets from Austria and in the
carving up of Albania." Austria-Hungary may lose Bosnia, Herzegovina,