consolidation of Turkish supremacy demands a further
campaign of murder. Greeks, Arabs, and Jews are all completely at the
mercy of Talaat's murder-schedules. The only chance that can save them
is that further extermination may not suit Germany's political aims,
and that she may find it worth her while to be peremptory, and forbid
instead of endorsing.

There are unhappily many signs that the butchers of Constantinople are
planning further massacres. In February of this year preliminary
measures were begun against the Greeks settled in Anatolia. Many were
forcibly proselytised, their property was confiscated, and they were
forbidden to carry on their businesses. Deportations also occurred, and
all Greeks were removed from many villages in Anatolia, into the
interior, presumably to 'agricultural colonies' such as those provided
for Armenians. They suffered terribly from hunger and exposure, and it
is estimated that ten per cent. of them died on their marches. Since
then, however, there has been no more heard of any extension of those
measures, and there seems to have been as yet no massacre of Greeks. It
is reasonable to infer that Germany has in this case intervened. She
still hoped to win Greece over to the Central European Powers, and
clearly any massacre of Greeks by her own Allies was not desirable.
King Constantine, among his endless vacillations and pusillanimous
treacheries, probably made a firm protest on the subject. But in the
kaleidoscope of war, should Greece come to the side of the Allies, it
seems most probable that there will occur a wholesale massacre of
Greeks. From what we know of the principles on which German Kultur is
based, the most optimistic can scarcely hope that the very faintest
remonstrance will emanate from Berlin.

The case of the Arabs in Syria is even more precarious. From the moment
that the policy of the Young Turks was evolved, namely, to consolidate
Osmanli supremacy by the weakening of its subject peoples, the Ottoman
Government has been waiting for its opportunity to get rid of the 'Arab
menace.' As we have seen, they began by substituting Turkish for Arabic
as a written language in all official usages from the printing of the
Koran and the prayers for the Sultan down to the legends on railway
tickets. The Arab spirit, according to one of the spokesmen of the New
Turk party, had to be suppressed, the Arab lands had to become Turkish
colonies. 'It is a peculiarly imperious necessit