VIRTUAL PARTITIONMENT OF ASIA MINOR

International Religious Liberty Association · Chicago, Illinois · Jun 28, 1900

FromThe American Sentinel, The Sentinel of Liberty, Vol. 15, No. 25.

VIRTUAL PARTITIONMENT OF ASIA MINOR.

The significance of what has been thus accomplished, not by war but by diplomacy, will be seen in the light of this statement: “Thus there has been effected by these railway arrangements a virtual partitionment of Asia Minor into two ‘spheres of influence,’ to adopt the expression which has been used in Africa and in China to mark the acquisition of European claims to territories not yet actually annexed by European claimants. Germany takes the south and south-east of the country; Russia the north and northeast.”

It is not thought probable that Russia, with so much undeveloped territory elsewhere, will actually build the railways authorized by the concessions she has obtained, but she can keep out rivals and competitors. “The Germans, however, will doubtless make their railway. They have promised to offer part of the capital to be subscribed in France, with the view to propitiating French opinion, and it is believed that the enterprise may turn out a pecuniary success.”