Austria and Turkey

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Aug 11, 1909

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 36, No. 31.

Austria and Turkey

Austria and Turkey.—For years there has been a constantly fostered sentiment that Russia would drive Turkey out of Constantinople. It now begins to look as tho Russia would not be able to drive anything anywhere, for it is in an actual struggle for existence. Of late, Germany and Austria have had the power to advantage themselves in the matter of territory within Turkish domains. Why have we assigned all the ambition of acquiring Turkish territory to Russia alone? Other powers now loom high in the Eastern sky, Russia sinks low. What is to hinder a confederacy of European powers, or of a number of European powers, at least, from appropriating Turkish territory?