TURKEY AND GREECE.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1262, 18 October 1911, Page 7

TURKEY AND GREECE.

GREAT FORCE ON FRONTIER. REPORTED ITALIAN EXPENDITURE OF £20,000,000. APPEAL TO THE HAGUE. By Telegraph-Press Association-Copyright (lice. October 17, 10.2j p.m.) Constantinople, October 17. Each o£ tb-o three anr.y corps at Saiomki, Honastir, and Uskub 'Ims boon increased by 25,000 men, making I ho total available forces in Western. Macedonia 150,000 men. Many of these men aro assembling along tho Greek frontier at Toniwa, Elaesona, Katorina, Pljifcimona, and ICaralxjwena. I-t is announced that Has«ii Tahsim Pasha will be Mahmud She-vkct Pasha's successor as Minister for War. At Salonika Envcr Pasha, commonder of tho local division, was suddenly placed on the retired list. This is taken, as indicating a lack of harmony between tlio Committee of Union and Progress and tho officers of tho Saloniki army corps. ITALY'S WAR (JILL

A MILLION A DAY. Rome, Octoben IG. The newspaper "Giornalo d'Halia," tho organ of tho Bank of Home, says the war has already cost Italy twenty million pounds sterling, or a million a day. PEACE BUREAU APPEAL. ITALY'S BROKEN OBLIGATIONS. Brussels, October IG. Tho newspaper "Independence Bolgo" states that the International Peace Bureau has circularised Tlio Haguo signatories requesting them collectively to urge Italy to respect agreements. The memorandum asserts that Italy could havo secured satisfaction from Turkey in a legal and peaceful manner, but she had broken tho obligations sho undertook when sho signed tho Peace Convention. BOYCOTT OF ITALIAN GOODS, EFFECT IN VENICE. Rome, October 16. Owing to the boycott of Italian goods by Turks, the Btaffs of some of the export factories in Venice- have been roduced by one-half. Advices from Smyrna state that Italian workmen have been boycotted, and that many families aro starving. Neapolitan fishing vessels havo been seized. EXPULSION OF SCHOOLMASTERS. Constantinople, October IC. Tho Government has ordered tho expulsion of all Italian professors and schoolmasters. TURKISH OFFICERS SURRENDER. MANY IN DISGUISE. (Rec. October IS, 0.15 α-m.) Tripoli, October 17. One hundred and fifty Turkish officers have surrendered here. Many others in Arab attire are mixing with "tho population of the town awaiting an opportunity of proceeding to Constantinople. IMPEACHMENT, TEIPOLITAN DEPUTIES' MOTION. Constantinople, October IG. A motion by Tripolitan deputies to impeach the lato -Ministry befeje tho Iliffh Court in connection with tlio war, lias been, referred to a special committee.

■ THE COST OF WAR. SOME STRIKING FIGURES. The Russo-Japanese War, which lasted from February 10, 1001. to September 5, 1(105, cost Japan jC3!KU;iS,OOO, and Hussia £220,000,000. The Door War, lasting from OelolxT, 189',), to .luno, 1902, cost Great Britain J:a0,000,000. Tho Crimean War expenditure, ;k> far as Great Britain was concerned, totalled £69,278,000, and was spread over the four vcai> IS3I-1557. The var of the Kighl of Search agniir-t Franco aind Spain (17.Tr»-17-lS) cost Britain on an average. £i.W>,OOO a year; Ihe seven years' war (1736-17G3), .fcIO.KS.OOO; (he war vrith the American colonies and Franco and Spain, £'J,7C0,f100; ami tho war of tho French Revolution and with Nanclcon £30,150.000 a year. The Russo-Tiirkish War of IS7G-7 cost altogether £100,000,000; the Franco-Prus-sian War of 1670-1, .631(1,030.01)0; tho American Civil War (1833-5) .6710,000,000. TURKISH CABINET CRISIS. TJIE COMMITTEE GETTING OUT OF HAND. In a leading article published on September 8 "Tho Times," in discussing the condition of Turkish politics, said: ''Tho Ministry docs not sc-eni to be in a position to sustain fresh shock's. For several months its hold of power has Ijc-eu weak and to all appearance growing weaker. A conference d the Ccmmilleo is to assemble this month at hJalouiki, and it is well known that a, strong section of its members is very anxious lo get rid of the Ministry before Parliament meets, and to substitute for it an exclusively Committee Cabinet. ...

Tho situation of the Government is, of course, extremely difficult. For (he first time since- the Revolution both members of tlio Committee and older statesmen hai« been showing a general reluctance to cree; t office within Die last two or thrcc months. Administrative confusion has been growing. The orders of the local Committees, backed by groiins of young officers, have proved to bo fciipmno hi parts of Macedonia, and the conduct of highly-placed witnesses who were summoned to appear in tho investigation of the murder of Zeki Hey has not edified tho public. Tho Kurds have been showing siijns of restlessness, and the populace ot tho capital, liko the inhabitanis of so many otlwr great cities throughout Lurope, arc suli'crmg from a great rise in tho price of the necessaries of life, while some forty or fifty thousand of .them were left homeless by the great fire. Ministers are, of course, to bo pitied rather than to bo blamed for fomo of these evils, all of which, however, strengthen tho hands of their enemies. Their political life is in tho hands of tho Com mitt co, and neither party of (he Committee cordially upholds them. They aro assailed by the Left, criticised by the Moderate, and condemned bv the 'nonTurkish elements of tho nation for the faults of others. Tho divisions of (heir adversaries and the manifest impossibility of forming an alternative Government in existing circumstances havo hitherto kept tho.m in place, but it woms improbable that the actual position can bo indefinitely prolonged. They may develop .strength in some unexpected, way, or tho Committee may so far reconcile thoir dissensions as to agree (o give a cordial support to some fresh combination. The onlv wish winch the friends of Turkey abroad can ontertain is that romo really abidintr system may be established as rapidly "as possible, lhe general instabilitv which has prevailed 6 mco the Kerelution is n eonroo of weaklier to Turkey, and therooro a. wiiroo of conceni to all who wisli tier well.