ABDUL HAMID'S DIARY.

Evening Star, Issue 15140, 24 March 1913, Page 4

ABDUL HAMID'S DIARY.

t E'; l ™^ Purporting to be from the diary of Abdul Hanud have been reproduced from the German review ' Xord und Sud ' in the lans enips The following are among tre quotations : The French (lie writes) are greatly displeased that I prefer the Germans to them. The Emperor himself would havo sufficed to cause me to accord all my eympathy to the Germans. He- is a min in w horn one cannot but have confidence, and cannot but like. The German, in character much resembles the Turk. Then he swings round to the opposite view, and teems to fear Germany, for ha continues : It is high time to put. a check to the growth of German influence. Wo must show that we entertain suspicion towards the German policy. Mv Ambassador in Berlin writes me that the Emperor Wilhelm'6 plan tends to the creation of a sphere of German influence, in Asia. Minor. Certainly lam not opposed to the Germans endeavoring to awaken the economic activity of Anatolia, but German newspapers demand German colonisation along the Bagdad railway line. What are these German journalists thinking of? Ha anticipates for Tripoli what has happened in Turkey in Europe : It has been said that the Italians were willing to give us £T54,000,000 if we would consent to abandon Trijwli. Wo 6hould have peace, we 6hould receive money; these would at all events bd bettor than to await the. -day when this country will be taken from us hy violence.