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The
†NLESS I had gone to
who has just returned from `his tour of Turkey as head of the Anglo-Turkish Relief Fund Min» •
Turkey and seen for myself, I would not have believed it: I did · not believe it when I was told by the few who had seen it. Ministry of the Interior in the
charac
I could not be persuaded that the corruption, inefficiency and procrastination which terised the Government of the country in which I had served a quarter of a century ago hnd wholly disappeared, and that the Revolution had "changed all that." But so it is; it has all been swept away, and Turkey has appeared in which I can recognise nothing of the old Turkey-except, of course, the same hospitable, simple and attractive people.
Hongkong Telegraphı. T
Thursday, May 16, 1940. Wyndham St., Hongkong Telephone: 26615
THE prax "Bpecial to the Telegraph" lied by the Hongkong Telest pet Indicate nows which is strictly copyright under the provisions of the Telecommunt bears the indicating in received Hongkong on the site of publication by
cations Ordinance, 1936. Buck BEWI
# new
Of all the Revolutions which have taken place since the end
slon despatched to the arcas dc- vastated by recent earthquakes,
Sir Win
Wyndham was Inspector of Gendarmeria in Turkey and, later,
oficial under the Turkish
ran o
four years immediately preceding the Great War, having thus an exceptional experience of life and conditions in Turkey a quar ter of a century ago.
There can be little doubt that wo- men are not a little responsible for all this social activity; the women who to-day are to be met in every sphere of human activity-13 of them in Parliament. Gone are the black- veiled phantoms of old days. the heroines of Plerre Loti's novels. ‹
VILLAGES TO BE REBUILT Where, however, I notleed the lenst chunge was in the villages. Except for new schools and a better water supply to big exception indeed) the houses look much the same and the
25
of the Great War, not one, I agricultural implements and methods venture to assert. has accom- have changed little in the last plished what this one has, and y commented on this to a high Turkish official who said: "Yes,
zerys all zights and forble republieen broken so few heads in the pro-
the United Press Associations, who re-
either wholly or in part without previou Arrangement.
Thumbs Up!
CC83.
IN DAYS OF BRIGANDAGE Let us look drst of all at a few of the surface changes. In old days
No undue apprehension need us when I thought of Turkey, my mind fell by the British people ot the always went to briganda! For ex-
ample, I remember the days when I' cxtent of the German. advance jived in a suburb of Bmyrna, and, a through Belgium and Holland since in gendarmerie
Was called on the ferritories of these countries and to provide an Luxembourg were violated last Fri- "carriage convoy" of girls and their day.
Much more of Belgian
escort for the
partners going to a dance in town. And I remember the night when the
pounced upon
young
territory man,
will be invaded before the German offensive is brought to a standstill, and the Allies are prepared for this contingency,
The invaalon, as it were,
•
ceeding according to the plans
invaders, downfall even this
both the Allies and the The swiftness of Holland's is somewhat disturbing, but
*
look him to the
bim
mountains and demanded
£10,000 ransom for
Thote were the days when foreign- summer
cra
is pro- going up country for a
holiday obtained a "laisser passerer not from my gendarmes, but from the brigands, who, incidentally, treated them with great courtesy. All that both the picturesque and the perilous has gone. There are no brigands | contingency must have been allowed teft, except, perhaps, a few in the before by our High Commands. A Vilayet of Seri, away in the south- though-the-Germans have pierced-the | east,-
Belgian defences across the King Then, agalh, casting my mind back Albert Canal (defences which, be it 25 years, I think of epidemics. I remembered, were not available in ES
never travelled up-country without Encountering cholera, smallpox or the last war). Liege still holds out (typhus, I remember sleeping one fell after ten days in the last war), night in a wayalde "Han," the prin and the Germans must reach Louvain eipal guest-room of which seemed to yet before they ぐan approad be unusually well swept and garnish- ed. When I commented on this to end. fell
mine host
host in the morning. he said: the seventh day of invasion.
"On
SOLE The situation along the Meuse can, yes. The room in which
flept is
is being used as the cholera
Brussels. In 1914 Louvain
time.
too,
out the horse fell through a hole in
it is true; we have not yet entered the villages," and he went on 10 explain to me some of the Govern~ ment's plans for the grouping of villages, the better to provide them
RUSSIAN
ISOLATION
DIG FOR VICTORY!
It is reported that, owing to Russiauvooluess, Ribbentrop may have to visit Moscow again.
1910
THE GAMBLER
markable
changes, In the upathy, inertia
be considered fairly satisfactory in mortuary. But when we heard your vlew of the nature of the German Excelleracy was coming we emptied
ed it To- offensive. It appears that, in the and gave it a special clean-up."
day cholern has been stormped out; south, they have only succeeded in typhus and smallpox are very rare with social services and lo introduce.
to remove the capital from its 500- crossing the river at one or two and a vigorous campaign is being co-operative farming and the common
year-old site to an up-country village; points and Namur still starids. waged against those other scourges, use of machinery.
ad- to abolish the fez (more than The loss of the French frontier city syphills and malaria,
and physical change): to replace Arable A start has already been made wit, ministration of Sedan is unimportant: rnore im- NEW TOWNS FOR OLD the refugee villages built for peasants slovenly, out-of-date methods have by Latin characters. (more than R portance must be attached to the re-
else gone, Officials are keen and-gover- literary change); these and the miny Again, consider the country's com- migrating from Rumania and
I forget where in the Southern Balkans. In mors of provinces, at any rate-are more reforms could only have been ports from this sector that the Ger- munications. Never shall
that made in 15 years by the flat of one Gov. relatively young. It may be mans have succeeded in crossing the the old Turkish roads. In the sum the earthquake area, too, the Meuse River which was expected to mer of 1913 I disembarked at Samsun crament is determined to seize the foreigners still find that business is man. And a remarkable man be
and engaged "yayili" (a light opportunity to re-site a number of not completed with quite the speed must have been.
Are accustomed in For, ruthless as he was in sweep hold them up for some considerabie 1 spring wagon) in order to carry out Villages; to build better houses, and to which they
purchase agricultural machinery in some other countries. But (thank ing away rubbish and all that in his un inspection in the five contiguous It should be emphasised that the provinces, a journey which promised England-for which purpose a trade goodness!) Turkish "bureaucrats" can opinion retarded progress, he never famous Maginot Line does not extend to lust three months. The lett Turkey while I was still find time for a talk over a cup seems to have gone too far; he always
first day there
of coffee, and the "cult of emclency" had his finger on the pulse of his north of the Luxembourg frontier, the road. the pole snapped, and we
has not completely debumanised then, people, t -It Is Impossible 10 mention the testimony of the fact that Franes, had to fashion a new, one from the many other reforms and improvements. And there is no corruption. At least
PEOPLE'S TRUE QUALITY Was it Lenin who said, "A man is respected once
That and which strike the eye, but there is one so my Turkish friends assured me, Germany's neighbouring forest,
and it was fully confirmed to me by pledges that the territory of the much more was travel in those dayst institution, the "Halk Evi" to which several foreigners who had fived all a greaf and only as great as the tide
in- The other day I visited these same pllusion must be made. The
their lives in the country and were surging beneath him"? Applied to.. Lowlands would remain Inviolates
this case, this means that Ataturk Nevertheless, the French fortifications provinces, and did the Journey in fluence of the Haik Evl-or "People's engaged in big bushest
ould not have done what he did nor comfort
ALMOST TOO MODEST from the Luxembourg frontier lo
a contribution popular en- only ten days pad and rail and as big contre-reaching and his made
-as is undoubtedly the case-could lightenment as perhaps any other
The reason is not far to acek; he have assured its continuation un the North Sea, which were built Among the visible changes to be after the advent of Hitler, are on a noted are the large number of well- cf. There are 360 of these houses salaries and wages are now regularly less he had been supported by His
obtained people and unless his built schools-elementary in the in Turkey. Here we should call the paid and justice can be
people had scale believed to be a impregnable village and central and lycees" In ties include art, envale, concerts, lec- ber one occasion 28 years ago, when of pronting by the reforms which le "Community Centres, Their activi- without resort to bribery, I remem-been-as he knew they were-worthy or the Maginot Line and will be the larger towns; town-planning of tures, conferences, all forms of "fur. I went to inspect a delachment of find made. sufficient to striously hamper any old towns and the rapid buliding of ther education," German attempt to
games (indoor and gendarmerie in an up-country town, "How is IL," I kept unying to my- break through new-of which Ankara, village
outdoor) and
commanding in self, "that a whole people can change personal service to in the offleer when I last saw. it, is, of course, the to poor stu
This the Allied lines.
own quarters. I overnight from what I remember of The Germans strategy at present most notable example; and the large dents. They are doing their best to funched with him, being served by them 25 years ago to what I see them'
number of new factories established,
by giving talks his men through
ough the bars of the to be to-day? The answer. I am. appears to be to cut off the Dutch, visited a sugar factory at Turkal and chem
lectures to men and women on window, and Icum!“from” litníTMTM persuaded, in that It
La T not 80 "much Belgion and French coasts regardless where the provision of social ament both domestic and world affairs and his crime had been that he had taken that the people have changed as that. of cost in lives to themselves. But, ties for the workpeople was as good by encouraging the pursuit of old his detachment's last month's pay. frced from the yoke of a corrupt and whatever their success. they will as you could wish, Hospitals-one or customs and pastimes.
But, as one of his men sald to me oppressive Government, they have always be threatened on the left flank planning and equipment, better than THE PASSING OF APATHY later. "We can hardly blame the now for the first time been given the by the layineble Maginot Line and anything I have seen in this country. Just recently "Halk Odalar captain. He had not received his opportunity to display their trito on their right flank by the Belgian Day nurseries, infant welfare cen- People's Rona"-have been opened gwn salary, and he, too, has a wife
qualities.
And if this account of modem. and-British armies. Tho French tren and village clinics have been es- in villages which cannot yet aspire to and children to keep"
of the tablished at wisich a great deal of in- the full programme of a Holk Evi. In a word, the whole spirit of the Turkey be regarded by some as ex- undoubtedly will take саге
struction in hygiene la given. The Halk Evi movement la support country has changed; the "alck man aggerated or unduly flatterirag. I can centre.
some of the outward and ed by the funds of The People's of Europe" is dead. In. his, placo These are
only reply that my judgment is based Compared with 1914, the situation visible signs of progress which strike Party" and "
d-by grants in ald either stands. modern Turkey, proud of its not on a comparison between Turkey to-day is most satisfactory. There the eye'ns one goes through the from the Central Government, the achievements energetic, full of hope, and name other European country was no great; DEF. on French 1011 | country. Admittedly, they are as yet
the or municipality. The but modest almost too much so. A (although that is not a to aid in stemming the rapid Ceres, in number, but, such as they ore, personnel consists entirely of volun- a lending member of Government that the Turks iced tear, overmuch) men advance then; to-day over a they are very good, and they are teers, men and women, In fact, it said to me, "In this respect we are milon Tommies are ready to throw being built at fast as funds permit; represents a widespread network of like you: We pro bad advertiser auf between the Turkey of 1840 pnt:!
the Turkey of 1914. Judked by thist. themselves into the fraz __It_will be and warhat almadaxhilarating in voluntary social service. T
The Halk How have these remarkable standard, I can only conclude by Interesting to watch events after the||Turkey to-diy, the extension of their. Evi in Ankara had over 600,000 "at" changes *** could noout? The short saying what gold at the beginntby Gorman offensiva exhaust itself, as it social services is the favourite tople fondances. In the course of last year, answer is "Ataturk of this there of this article, I would not have inust do sooner or later.
of conversation with all whom one! A few words must now be added tan bo no doubt, To liberate, believed it unieks I had been there los Meanwhile, Thumbs Up.
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