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Updated: June 13, 2025
My heart beat so that I was afraid I should not hear any reply that might come. But the next moment it rang through the frosty air. "It's Turkey! That's Turkey, father!" I cried. "I know his shout. He makes it go farther than anybody else. Turkey! Turkey!" I shrieked, almost weeping with delight. Again Turkey's cry rang through the darkness, and the light drew wavering nearer.
So we waited, still blindly confident in the sincerity of Turkey's friendship for England, while the mobilisation of the Turkish forces proceeded merrily. By the end of September this was nearly complete, and quite suddenly the Ambassador informed the Foreign Office that Turkey appeared to be temporising.
The war fever increased when it was discovered that Servians, Bulgarians, and Greeks were at last of one mind, and that Turkey's strength had been undermined by revolts in all parts of the Empire and by the Turkish-Italian war.
Here comes the water!" cried Freddie, as he started the pump working. Then a stream shot out, right toward the cat and turkey. It was the best plan that could have been tried for separating them. With a howl and a yowl Snoop pulled his claws loose from where they were tangled up in the turkey's feathers. With a final gobble, the turkey let go of Snoop's tail.
Speed, Manly, speed! such cause of haste a drummer's sinews never braced. For turkey's doom and rebel deed are in thy course speed, Manly, speed!" And speed they did, arriving at the place of meeting just as their companions came up with the poultry. "Hello, Jack!" said Frank; "what's the matter with you?" "He stumbled over a great piece of bark," Ellis answered for Winch. "Did you, Jack?"
They lay all excesses at the Germans' door, for the Germans, during the War, are regarded as Turkey's schoolmasters in everything.
Make them up about the bigness of a large turkey's egg, flat them a little, and put them into boiling water; move them softly that they do not stick together, keep the water boiling, and a little more than half an hour will do them.
England threatened to bombard Constantinople if there should be too much hesitancy, and on May twenty-eighth, 1812, the Sultan closed a bargain with Russia which gave him the Pruth as a frontier. In spite of Turkey's submission, Great Britain was not to be left passive. The neutrality of the United States had, on the whole, been successfully maintained, but their commerce suffered.
The French Minister even said it would require twenty Napoleons to solve Turkey's many problems, and the Turks had not one. The Prince sent for me, and I saw he, too, expected war, for he questioned me about the Red Cross, and asked me whether I could get medical aid from England.
Turkey's life is already crushed out of her, and, as we have seen, it has been crushed out of her by the benevolent Kultur-mongers, who, among all the Great Powers of Europe, invested their time and their money in the achievement of the Pan-Turkish ideal. Silently and skilfully they worked, bamboozling their chief tool, Enver Pasha, even as Enver Pasha bamboozled us.
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