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No undue apprehension need be felt by the British people ot the

extent of the Germani

advance through Belgium and Holland since the territories of these countries and Luxembourg were violated last Fri-

day.

Much more of Belgian territory will be invaded before the German offensive is brought to a standstill, and the Allies are prepared for this contingency.

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May 16, 1940.

changed

country

By Brig. Gen. Sir WYNDHAM DEEDES,

-NLESS I had gone to

U

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.

who has just roturned from his tour of Turkey as head of the Angio-Turkish "Hellef Fund" Mis- sion despatched to the areas de- vautated by recent earthquakes,

Sir Wyndham was Inspector of Gendarmerie in Turkey and later, an official under the Turkish Ministry of the Interior in the four years immediately preceding the Great War, having thus an exceptional experience of Use and conditions in Turkey a quar- ter'of a century 200.

There can be lille doubt that wo-

I could not be persuaded that the corruption, inefficiency and charac- procrastination which terised the Government of the country in which I had served a quarter of a century ago had wholly disappeared, and that men are not a little responsible for the Revolution had "changed all all this social activity; the women that." But so it is; it has all who lo-day are to be met in every sphere of human activity--13 of them been swept away, and 2 лек

in Parliament. Gone are the black- Turkey-has-appeared in which veiled phantoms-of-ulti-days, the I_can_recognise nothing of the heroines of Pierre Lufi's novels. old Turkey-except, of course, the same hospitable, simple and attractive people.

VILLAGES TO BE REBUILT Where, however, I notleed the least chunge was in the villages. Except water Of all the Revolutions which for new schools and a better have taken place since the end houses look much the same and the supply (a big exception indeed) the of the Great War, not one, I agricultural implements and methods venture to assert, has accom- have changed little in the last 25 plished what this one has, and broken so few heads in the pro-

cess.

IN DAYS OF BRIGANDACE Let us look first of all at a few of the surface changes. In old days when I thought of Turkey, my mind always went to brigands! For ex- ample I rem

I remember the days when I

yed 1a suburb of Smyma, and, as a gendarmerie officer, was called on to provide an armed escort for the "carriage convoy of girls and their partners going to a dance in town. And remember the night when the brigands pounced upon F young Englishman, took him 10 the mountains and demanded £10,000 ransom for him.

Those were the days when foreign- The Invasion, as it were, is pro-holiday obtained a "laissez passer"-

ers going up country for a summer ceeding according to the plans of not from my gendarmes, but from the both the Allies and the invaders.brigarids, who, incidentally, treated The swiftness of Holland's downfall them with great courtesy. All that- is somewhat disturbing, but even thin both the picturesque and the perilous contingency must have been allowed has gone. There are no brigands exept, perhaps, a few in the before-by-our-High-Commands-Al-Vilaye of Sert, away in the south- though the Germans have pierced the cast.

high Turkish official who gold: years. commented on this to

**Yes,

it is true; we have not yet entered the villages," and he went en to explain to me some of the Govern- ment's plans for the grouping of them villages, the better to provide

Belgian defences across the King Then, again, casting my mind back Albert Canal (defences which, be it 25 years, I think of epidemics. I remembered, were not available in never travelled up-country without smallpox or the last war), Liege still holds out (typhus. I remember sleeping one

encountering cholera, fell after ten daya in the last war),night in a wayside "Han," the prin and the Germans must reach Louvaincipal quesi-room of which seemed to yet before they can approach be unusunily well swept and garnish- ed. When I commented on this to Brussels. In 1914 Louvain fell on

mine host in the morning, he said: "Oh, yes. The room in which you The situation along the Meuse can slept is being used as the cholera be considered fairly satisfactory

But when we heard your in mortuary. view of the nature of the German Excellency was coming we emptied it offensive. It appears thal, In the and gave it a special clean-up.

day cholern has been stamped out; south, they have only succeeded in

Lyphus and smallpox are very rare with social services and to introduce crossing the river at one ог two and a vigorous campaign is being co-operative farming and the common points and Namur stili stands. waged against those other scourges, use of machinery,

syphilk and malaria,

the seventh day of invasion.

time.

were

built

"TO-

in-

RUSSIAN

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SOLATION

DIG FOR VICTORY!

It is reported that, owing to Russian coolness, Ribbentrop may have

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1914-1918

THE GAMBLER

he

to remove the capital from its 500- year-old site to an up-country village; markable changes, In the ad to abolish the fez (more than a The loss of the French frontier city

apathy, inertia A start has already been made with ministration

and physical change); to replace Arabic of Sedan is unimportant: more im- NEW TOWNS FOR.OLD the refugee villages built for pensants slovenly, out-of-date methods have by Lalin characters (more than a portance must be attached to the re-

Officiak are keen and-gover- Ilterary change); these and the many Again, consider the country's com migrating from Rumania and

cise- gone. ports from this acctor that the Ger- munications. Never shall I forget where in the Southern Balkans. In ers of provinces, at any rate-are more reforms could only have been

Gov-

relatively young.

that It may be

made in 18 years by the fint of one 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 ernment is determined to seize the foreigners still find that business is man. And a remarkable man

of not completed with qulie the speed must have been. and engaged a "yayili" (a light opportunity to re-site a number

are accustomed hold them up for some considerable spring wagon) in order to carry out to purchase agricultural machinery in some other

in

For, ruthless as he was in sweep- villages: to build better houses, and to which they

countries. But (thank Ing away rubbish and all that in his un inspection in the newsword England-for which purpose a trade goodness!) Turkish "bureaucrata" car opinion retarded progress, he never It should be emphasised that the provinces, a journey which famous Maginot Line does not extend to lust three months. The first day commission left Turkey while I was all find time for a talk over a cup seems to have gone too far; he always of coffee, and the "cult of efficiency" had his finger on the pulse of his north of the Luxembourg frontier, the read, the pole snapped, and we

out the horse fell through a hole in Lagre

It is impossible to mention has not completely dehumanised them, people, testimony of the fact that France, had to fashion a new one from the which strike the eye, but there is one

the And there is no coruption. At least many other reforms and improvements

PEOPLE'S TRUE QUALITY- so my Turkelah friends assured - me, too, once respected Germany's neighbouring forest. That - and

Was It Lenin who sald, "A man- is and it was fully confirmed to me by pledges that the territory of the much more was travel in those days instution, the "Halk Evi," to which several foreigners who had lived all as great and only as great as the tide were surging beneath him" Applied to Lowlands would remain inviolate. The other day I visited these same allusion must be made. The

this case, this means that Ataturk Nevertheless, the French fortifications provlaces, and did the journey in Auence of the Halk Evior People's their lives in the country and

could not have done what he did nor great comfort by road and rail and House"-is far-reaching and has made engaged in big business

ALMOST TOO MODEST from the Luxembourg frontier

na big a contribution to` popular en- to took only ten days,

as is undoubtedly the case-could the North Sea, which

other. The reason is not for to seek; he have assured its continuation un- Among the visible changes

lightenment as perhaps any ba to after the advent of Hitler, are on a nated are the large number of well- factor. There are 360 of these houses, salaries and wages are now regularly less he had been supported by his

In Turkey. Here we should call them paid and justice can be obtained people and unless hle people had, schools-elementary in scale believed to be as Impregnabloving and central and "lycees". In conclado act, inusle, concerts, lec- ber one occasion. 25 years ago, when of profiting by the reforms which he the Community Centres." Their activi- without resort to bribery. I remem- been as he knew they were worthy an the Maginot Line and will be the larger towns; town-planning of sumefest to seriously hamper any old towns and the rapid building of es, conferences, all forms of "fur- I went to inspect a detachment of had made German attempt to break through new-of which, Ankara, a village ther education," games (indoor and gendarmerie in an up-country town, "How is it, I kept saying to my- when I last saw it, la, of course, the outdoor) and personal service to finding the officer commanding in self, "hat a whole people can change those in need, especially to poor stu- prison hi own quarters. overnight from what I remember of The German strategy at present most notable example; and the large dents. They are doing their best to lunched with him, belug served by thom 25-years ago to what I sad them

number of now factories establised enighten the villages by giving talks his men through appears to be to cut off the Dutch. I visited a sugar factory at Tutkal and lectures to men and women on window, and learnt from him that persunded, is that it is not

the bars of the to be to-day?" The answer, I am Belgian and French coasts regardless where the provision of social ameni- both domestig and world affairs and his crime had been that he had taken that the people have changed as that so much of cost in lives to themselves. But, tics for the workpeople was as good by encouraging the pursuit of old is detachment's last month's pay, freed from the yoke of a corrupt and whatever their success, they will na you could wish. Hospitals-one or

regards customs and pastimes.

But, as one of this men sald to me oppressive Government, they have nlways be threatened on the left flank two which I saw-wore, as

THE PASSING OF APATHY later, "Wa can hardly blame planning and equipment, better than

the now for the first time been given the by the invincible Maginot Line and anything I have seen in this country.

captain. He had not received his Just recently "Walk Odalar!" capt

opportunity to display their truo on their right flank by the Belgian Day nurseries, infant welfare cen- "People's Rooms have been opened own salary, and he, too, has a wife

If this account of modern and British armica. The French tres and village clinics have been es in villages which cannot yet empire to and children to keep undoubtedly will take care

of the inblished at which a great deal of in the full programme of a Halks Evi. In a word, the whole spirit of the Turkey be regarded by some as ex

struction in hygiene is given. centre.

The Halk Evi movement is support countype is dead, the "bis an offered or unduly Nattering, Z. can These are some of the outward and ed by the funds of "The People's of Europe"

place only reply that my judgment is based Compared with 1914, the situation visible signs of progress which strike Party" and by grants in afd either standa modem Turkey, proud of its not on a comparison between Turkey to-day is most antisfactory. There the eye as one goes through the from the Central Government, the ariilevements energetic, full of hope, and some aller European country was no great BEN, on French soll country. Admittedly they are as yet province or the municipality.

Tho. but modest almost too much so. As (although that is not a comparison to aid in stemming the rapid Ger-tow in number, but, such as they ute, personnel constats entirely of volun- & leading member of Government that the Turks need fear overmuch)

advance then: lo-day over a they are they are In

this respect we ara but between Turkey minton, Tommies, are peady, to from boy the very food, und der alt tere, men and worend network of like you. We aan. Dad, Peruar e putes to Try gr. 1980 and

of

ihemselves into the fray. It will be and what is so exhilarating Involuntary social service. The Halk How have “ These remarkable, standard; I can only conclude by Interniting to watch events after the Turkey to-day—the extension of their Ev In Ankara had over 500,000 al- changes, come about? The short saying what I said at the beginning Gennan offensive exhausts itself, as it social services is the favourite tople tendances in the course of last year, answer is "Alaturk" Of this there of this article, "I would not beva 'mist do sooner or later;

of conversation with all,whom one A few words must now be added can bo no doubt. To liberate believed it unless I had been there to, Meanwhile, Thumbs Up.

meets.

about other invlible but no less rev. women; to "disestablish the Church"; see,"

the Allied lines.

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