d Industrial
Society' at Beirut, a 'Tobacco Trading Company' at Latakieh, an
'Agricultural Company' at Tripoli, a 'Corn Exporting Company' in
Lebanon, a 'Rebuilding Commission' (perhaps for sacked Armenian houses)
at Konia. More curious yet will be a Tourist's Guide Book--a Baedeker,
in fact--for travellers in Anatolia, and the erection of a monument in
honour of Turkish _women_ who have replaced men called up for military
duty. Truly these last two items--a guide-book for Anatolia, and a
monument to women--are strange enterprises for Turks. A new Prussian day
is dawning, it seems, for Turkish women as well, for the _Tanin_ (April
1917) tells us that diplomas are to be conferred on ladies who have
completed their studies in the Technical School at Constantinople.

It is needless to multiply instances of German penetration: I have but
given the skeleton of this German monster that has fastened itself with
tentacles and suckers on every branch of Turkish industry. There is none
round which it has not cast its feelers--no Semitic moneylender ever
obtained a surer hold on his victim. In matters naval, military,
educational, legal, industrial, financial, Germany has a strangle-hold.
Turkey's life is already crushed out of her, and, as we have seen, it
has been crushed out of her by the benevolent Kultur-mongers, who, among
all the Great Powers of Europe, invested their time and their money in
the achievement of the Pan-Turkish ideal. Silently and skilfully they
worked, bamboozling their chief tool, Enver Pasha, even as Enver Pasha
bamboozled us. As long as he was of service to them they retained him;
for his peace of mind at one time they stopped up all letter-boxes in
Constantinople because so many threatening letters were sent him. But
now Enver Pasha seems to have had his day; he became a little
autocratic, and thought that he was the head of the Pan-Turkish ideal.
So he was, but the Pan-Turkish ideal had become Pan-Prussian, and he had
not noticed the transformation. Talaat Bey has taken his place; it was
he who, in May 1917, was received by the Emperor William, by King
Ludwig, and by the Austrian Emperor, and he who was the mouthpiece of
the German efforts to make a separate peace with Russia. Under Czardom,
he proclaimed, the existence of Turkey was threatened, but now the
revolution has made friendship possible, for Russia no longer desires
territorial annexation. And, oh, how Turkey would like to be Russia's
friend!