But this will prove rather disappointing for Jemal, since it seems beyond mere coincidence that towards the end of August Herr von Kuhlmann, the new German Foreign Minister, induced the Turkish Government (while Jemal was at Berlin) to put their navy and their merchant fleet under the orders of the German Admiralty, and already many Turkish naval officers have been replaced by Germans.  Thus Jemal will find himself deprived of his military command, because the navy so urgently needed his guiding hand, while his guiding hand over the navy will be itself guided by the German Admiralty....  In fact, it looks rather like checkmate for Jemal the Great, and an end to the trouble he might have given the German control.

On the eve of his leaving Germany, as yet unconscious probably of the subordination of the entire Turkish fleet to the German Admiralty, he gave an interview to a representative of the Cologne Gazette, which deserves more than that ephemeral appearance.  It shows Jemal the Great in a sort of hypnotic trance induced at Potsdam.  ‘The German fleet,’ he says, ’is simply spotless in its power, and a model for all states which need a modern navy—­a model which cannot be surpassed.’ ...  He went for a cruise in a submarine which proceeded ’so smoothly, elegantly, calmly and securely that I had the impression of cruising in a great steamship.’ ...  He was taken to Belgium, and describes the ’idyllic life there’:  in the towns ‘the people go for walks all day long,’ and in the country the peasants blithely gather in the harvest with the help of happy prisoners.’ (He does not tell us where the harvest goes to, any more than the Germans tell us where the Turkish harvests go to.) He was taken to General Headquarters, which he describes as ‘majestic.’  Finally he was taken into the presence of the All-Highest, and seems to have emerged in the condition in which Moses came down from Sinai....  But one must not altogether despair of Jemal the Great.  It is still possible that, on his return to Constantinople, when he found that his position, as Minister of Marine was but a clerkship in the German Admiralty, the hypnotic trance began to pass off, and his ambitions to re-assert themselves.  He may yet give trouble to the Germans if properly handled.

Crescent and Iron Cross, Chapter IV

THE QUESTION OF SYRIA AND PALESTINE

It is impossible to leave this heart-rending tale of the sufferings of the Armenian people under the Turks without some account of that devoted band of American missionaries who, with a heroism unsurpassed, and perhaps unequalled, so eagerly sacrificed themselves to the ravages of pestilence and starvation in order to alleviate the horrors that descended on the people to whom they had been sent.  Often they were forcibly driven from the care of their flocks, often in the extermination of their flocks there was none left whom they could shepherd, but wherever a remnant still