GERMANY STAKES HER ALL ON TURKEY.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLI, Issue 10163, 31 August 1915, Page 5

GERMANY STAKES HER ALL ON TURKEY.

DEFEAT THERE MEANS DEFEAT EVERYWHERE. (Times and Sydney Sun Services.) LONDON. Aug 30. The Times' correspondent- in New York says that Paul Rohgbach, a well-known writer on the German foreign policy, publishes in tho Evening Mail and newspapers recently acquired by German interests a remarkable article on tho struggle in the Orient. He declares: "When the war broke out. the vast, majority of Germans believed that a knock-out blow would be given to France, then Russia would be defeated and finally accounts would bo settled with Britain, but, to-day we realise that the ultimate result of victory or defeat for Germany and Austria depends on our ability to preserve the strength of Turkey and uphold our connection with hetf The decision of the war for us as well as our foes will be found in the Orient." lie asks: "What will happen if an Anglo-Russian and French cut is made at. the Dardanelles and Bosphorus? Tho answer is that this will mean the end of our world politics and our elimination as a world Power. If we allow Turkey to be defeated Germany ill sink to a second rate Power.

(Times and Sydney Sun Services.) Received August 31, 9 a.m. LONDON, Aug. 30. The Times' neutral correspondent recalls a conversation with a German in Berlin who asked : "Do the English realise that we regard the Dardanelles as one of the most vital parts in this jvav and that our pioneers surveyed the whole peninsula nearly a year ago and fortified it even before the first foolish bombardment'.'" In reply to the question "How do you know all this?" he said, "Everybody in Germany knows it. We contend that a million men would not reach Constantinople by the route intended." The neutral correspondent continues: "Since I have been in England the conflicting information concerning the Dardanelles expedition has puzzled me. There is a curious aloofness about that theatre of war. None of tli-o military authorities, who do so much in Germany to educate the public mind, seem to explain the enterprise to the people here. If. would appear to be regarded as something akin to the Boer War. The Germans take the view that the expedition was a mad project from the outset and that sue cess is impossible to achieve. Englishmen say: "In a month wo shall be in Constantinople," but no one can tell how the feat is to be accomplished. Englishmen do not, attack the gigantic importance to the enterprise which Germans do.