Vancouver Daily World from Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada • Page 16

Friday, May 7, 1915. THE VANCOUVER WORLD 16 Where Allies are Fighting the Turk on Land and Water GREEKS MADE TO SERVE TURKS OR PAY THEM MONEY are asking themselves some serious questions. The misery, the poor business, the affairs In Mexico and the danger which Japan threatens all these cannot be glossed over, despite all the efforts of the Herald, Telegram, World, Times and Tribune. Where Is alt this going to lead? One cannot help facing the future without a feeling of dread. "There Is New York harbor.

It never looked so deserted. Two British ships are lying at their piers one the Lusltania. When these two ships leave there will not be another English ship to leave this port for eleven days. And the Germans have accomplished that. "I visited a friend In New Jersey.

In his spacious, beautiful dining room there hung on the wall a picture burned in wood. It represented a German oak, and on it were the words: 'DeutBchcs Haus In fremden Land, Schirm es Gott mit starkes Hand' (A German home In a strange land; May God protect it with a strong hand.) "A strange land! "And this man has been a citizen Letters Received Here From Residents in Gallipoli Peninsula Tells of (PCHHTS AT WHICH ff I fEsSM 3HJ 300,000 TROOPSj OFi ALLIES WILL WIN THROUGH, BUT SLOWLY WANCC TO DAR of the United States for thirty years, and he was before this war a good American. This is what the Times. Herald, Sun, Tribune and the 'neutrals' In Washington have accomplished. "I regarded that picture in silence.

I am alone In the world. I have neither wife, children nor relatives. And too, once loved Columbia until my old Fatherland was attacked with the weapons of Jealousy and hatred. It is a singular and strange sensation to feel suddenly that your adopted home is no longer tt home. All my thoughts, all my wishes and there are many who are similarly situated are to go across the sea to Germany, my dear old home." KUM KALEH YT KUM KALEH FRENCH BASE lOP OPE RATIONS Birdseye View of Territory Wh ere Three Armies of the Allies Now Are Marching on the Turk ish Forces.

GERMAN ORIS This is Opinion of Greeks in Invaded Zones Topography Difficult. That the Allies will eventually win through the Dardanelles, but that it will take a considerable time, Is the opinion expressed in letters from Greek residents in the Gallipoli peninsula to Mr. John Spates of Vancouver. Interesting comments are also made regarding the position of the Greek inhabitants of towns in the vilayet of Adrlanople. "I should say there must have been nearly half a million Greeks scattered trhough the towns and cities of the Galliopli peninsula and the Asiatic coast bordering on the Pardanelles," said Mr.

Spates at the Hotel Metro pole this morning. "Some of them managed to get away by railroad before the attacks of the Allied fleets and armies, but a great many are still left, and are more or less under Turkish constraint, and there is no love lost between the Turks and Greeks. Topography Difficult. "I am informed that several Greek officers have joined the armies of the Allies operating in Gallipoli of course, without government sanction and their services should be of great value, as the topography of the peninsula presents serious difficulties to those who are unfamiliar with it." In the letters received by Mr. Spates It is stated that all able bodied Greek residents of Turkish towns have been forced either to loin the colors or to pay a sum of fifty pounds Turkish money.

It is reported that there have been many defections from the ranks, which have been punished with very summary treatment Mr. 8pates states that if Greece were to join in with the Allies the campaign In the Dardanelles would be brought to a very rapid conclusion, as the Turks would then be practically between two fires. The Greek population of Constantinople Is very large, and from some quarters has come the suggestion that DOLEFUL PICTURE jority of Greeks will be satisfied," he said. "There is a large Greek population in Constantinople, and, with the driving out of the Turks and the allies making it more or less a Tree port, our people would, we think, prosper. Mr.

Spates served through both the Turkish and liulgarim campaigns with the Greek forces. He was awarded both the king's medal and the medal with the Grand Cross of Constantino. Ho declared that the Turks were not looked upon by the Greeks as very formidable opponents, man to man. but that the fortifications on the Gallipoli peninsula wero very strong. Twenty three thousand Turkish soldiers were captured when the Greeks took Gallipoli.

ACTING VNDKK ORDERS. These officers and men "were engaged In sinking Innocent British and neutral merchant ships and wantonly killing non combatants." The fact Is not denied: nay, it is a subject of congratulation and of boasting in the German press, both in Germany Itself and in the United States. Are these acts in accordance with the laws and customs of war? Aro the men who perpetrate them entitled to the treatment of honorable opponents? The Germans do not attempt to face the first point. They allege, doubtless with truth, that the prisoners in question were acting under orders and only ful OF NEW YORK it were made a free port with Greece at the gates," added Captain Stewart. "Supposing Russia did get Constantinople, if there were a war of any kind all that an enemy, would have to do would be to block up the entrance to the Dardanelles and no fleet could gel outside.

"Of course, 1 have nothing to do with the conditions of peace." smiled Captain Stewart. "Those in the high places are there to look after those things. It's just my own way of look ins at things." A Noble Attitude "As regards Russia, I thing she has shown an attitude in this war that is worthy of all praise. I don't think she has come In for aggrandizement or for gain of territory the Lord knows she has almost more than she wants already but simply to act as a shield or bulwark for the smaller Slav nations. Perhaps English speaking people do not realize quite as it is a pleasure to see how our reservists stand up for the Fatherland.

"In the vicinity of the Hjrald building are located New York's big business concerns. They are like palaces that occupy whole square blocks. The dally bargains offered by these concerns are numerous, and one can see in their advertisements how they are suffering as a result of the war. The advertising columns were never before so filled with special sales, but Bomehow there are few buyers. Thus It is in all concerns.

The people are economizing everywhere and spending little money. Old employees are discharged and the working forco Is continually decreased. These indeed are hard times! "On the east side, which is the poorest section of New York, there is terrible want. Several hotels are giving free coffee to the unfortunates; but with the permission of the Washington government the ammunition factories are working overtime for England even though the people themselves are suffering and in misery. Strange Developments.

"There have been many strange developments in this republic within a few months. Thinking people when the war Is over the Allies may agree to hand over the city of Constantinople to Greece. "Of course I am not a diplomat or any authority on the subject." said Captain J. R. Stewart, secretary' of the B.

C. Marine Association. In this connection this morning, "but I am very well acquainted with the Dardanelles and Constantinople. For many years I sailed from United Kingdom ports to ports in the Dardanelles and was a frequent caller at Constantinople. I soon came to see that the big business people in this country were the Greeks.

Half of the population of some of the seaports so called Turkish were Greek merchants, some of them doing business in a small way and some In a big. It seems to be the most natural thing in the world that Constantinople should be given over to the Greeks. Of course, as I say, I am Just an old salt, but I have knocked around more than most men, perhaps more than most diplomats, and I have always done a little more than gaze at my yardarms. "I do no think that Russia would gain anything by getting Constantinople any more than she would if filled their military duties. We have never supposed that they did not act SHARK So far 2000 Newfoundlanders have rallied to the forces of the Empire and fifty nine have laid down their lives.

The Ancient Colony is nobly doing its share. Ottawa Journal. An example of the ludicrously falso tales that are sent to the newspapers in Germany is illustrated in an article sent to the Cologne Volkszeitung by New York correspondent and which is reprinted in the Prager Tageblatt. According to this correspondent, New York and the Vnited States are in a bad way, which will be news mere. "On upper Broadway, in the inti rior of the city," he says, "is a building that houses that despicable sheet, the New York Herald, and its afternoon edition, the Evening Telegram.

In front of this old Venetian structure bulletins are daily posted. Every bulletin calls for wordy battles. The arguments, of course, amount to lutle, but I much as they should Russia's atti under orders. wnat we oeny is that any orders, or any alleged military duties can entirely alter the character of their acts. These acts, in our deliberate Judgment, are "offences against the law of nations) and contrary to common humanity." We hold that prisoners guilty of such offences, by whatever authority, ought not to rank with ordinary prisoners of war.

London Times. tude." Mr. John Spates, on the other hand, states that the Greeks are not so particularly desirous of getting Constantinople. "As long as the allies get there and drive the Turks out, I think the ma The long expected flank movement of the B. C.

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