ber Allah!'

Only once was there a check in the growth of the Prussian infant, and
that was no more than a childish ailment. For when the Balkan wars broke
out the Turkish army was in the transitional stage. Its German tutors
had not yet had time to inspire the army with German discipline and
tradition; they had only weeded out, so to speak, the old Turkish
spirit, the blind obedience to the Ministers of the Shadow of God. The
Shadow of God, in fact, in the person of the Sultan, had been dragged
out into the light, and his Shadow had grown appreciably less. In
consequence there was not at this juncture any cohesion in the army, and
it suffered reverse after reverse. But a strong though a curtailed
Turkey was more in accordance with Prussian ideas than a weak and
sprawling one, and Germany bore the Turkish defeats very valiantly. And
that was the only set-back that this Pan-Prussian youngster experienced,
and it was no more than an attack of German measles which he very
quickly got over. For two or three years German influence wavered, then
recovered, 'with blessings on the falling out, that all the more
endears.'

It is interesting to see how Germany adapted the Pan-Turkish ideal to
her own ends, and, by a triumphant vindication of Germany's methods, the
best account of this Pan-Turkish ideal is to be found in a publication
of 1915 by Tekin Alp, which was written as German propaganda and by
Germany disseminated broadcast over the Turkish Empire. An account of
this movement has already been given in Chapter II., as far as the
Turkish side of it is concerned, and it remains only to enumerate the
German contribution to the fledging of this new Turkish Phoenix. The
Turkish language and the Turkish Allah, God of Love, in whose name the
Armenians were tortured and massacred, were the two wings on which it
was to soar. Auxiliary soaring societies were organised, among them a
Turkish Ojagha with similar aims, and no fewer than sixteen branches of
it were founded throughout the Empire. There were also a Turkish Guiji
or gymnastic club, and an Izji or boy scouts' club. A union of merchants
worked for the same object in districts where hitherto trade had been in
the hands of Greeks and Armenians, and signs appeared on their shops
that only Turkish labour was employed. Religious funds also were used
for similar economic restoration.

Germany saw, Germany tabulated, Germany licked her lips and took out her
long spoon, for her hou