The Thames Star WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 25, 1918 THE WAR ASPECT

Thames Star, Volume LII, Issue 13808, 25 September 1918, Page 2

The Thames Star

WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 25, 1918 THE WAR ASPECT

"With malice towards noa«; with cJuirity for all j with flrmnim la th« ' right, m God gives v to m th« right"—•Lincoln,

."The sick man. of Eutop©," "a& Turkey lias long 1 been designated, must ■be still nioi"tj seriously ill '-iins tlie 1 result, of the Palestine revea-seiij. The gloa'ious Bi'ltish victory whiicih as boe<u ig|aiiited by tiie troops under Geaiea-ul Allenby's ocxnianaavd is a girea.t, blow, not oaily to Tiu-key, but. to the. iilliee of that, country. Ovtir four yeaa's ago tba specious pi-omises •of Gei'niany induced Turkey to enter the war against Britain and her Allies. Hopes of "viictoaies, aand many commercial aoid politicial advantages resulting] tdierefroan, wore tli© baat hold out by the aa oh-conspirati'Jir iigftiimst tlio world's peiaice. Biituin was to be da-ivou out of Egypt, tlie Suez Caiual was to b© Lauded over to TuirlKey, aiid tlie ;road to liiidira Wai 1* to bccoiiiiio a highway foi v G'ormiiuiy. Since <t<h.ecn dii«ister hiis followed disaster far Turkey in- the course of tlie Avar. She lias lost Jerusalem, which has now been freed froau centuries of Moslem oppression, amd misi-ule. She livas bean) driven out of Egypt, has beeni vanquished 'hi Mieisopotaniia. And now comos tine crowning' loSs of all, tlie captaire of hea' entire Pak*stine M-my, with all its stores, aminitioinis, amd material of wai\ Such a, blow to tli© prestigei of till© Cemtral T'owea-'s is a. staiggjerimg' one, -and tlieni3 is doubtless moa^ to follow. "" ' I>.iiiKisciu«i is proba.bty tlie next objective of (general Allenby's •victorious aa-my, awd frqini that centre it may be possible to lunik up ■with Aleppo further north. The latter place is on the Constaiiitinople'Bagilad railway route. Tlio probability of continuous Twrfiisli losses is tiieaiefon-o apparent. Tlie Mow to tlxe Central Powei-s by this great Turkish defeat comics. at a. _ time Avhen. Geiymasny is in scats, stiraits in. otheo* directkyns. She is unable to aid her Moslerai partner' in iniquity, in

fact Mads all the help she can get. In the Balkans she is suffering defeat at the hands of the French and (Greeks, 'and in Lorraine her stolen. teiTitoi'y is being entered Jby the forces of America, while th© British' aire raining; death and. . destruction. 1 from ..the air upon, Metz. ' In, the Champagne French, penetrationi ccntinues, and on the 'front furtlum I'west the British oontinue to gain ground and ta»ke prisanea-s despite. German resistance. Chaly in Flandea's the Germanis appear to be holding on., but the continuous loss>es in otiher directions must inevitably result in withdi*awals from Belgliiwn, in oi"der to a-trengtihm weak spots elsewhere. .Only adretrse v/eather will jDireiVant fua'ther Allied victories on all the fronts before winter closes' down upon the operations, and rnnifortuiiately there airei inidioatdons that olimiaitdo condlitions are setting' in which .will gwe the eneony a. respite for which his soul must be> 'greatly longing.