nough to give a preferential tariff to Germany.

A similarly bright future may be predicted for the sugar-beet industry
at Konia, where are the irrigation works already referred to. Artesian
wells have been sunk, and there is the suggestion to introduce
Bulgarian labour in default of Turkish. As we have seen, Hungary
attempted to obtain a monopoly with regard to sugar, but Germany has
been victorious on this point (as on every other where she competes with
Hungary), and has obtained the concession for a period of thirty years.
She reaped the first-fruits this last spring (1917), when, on a single
occasion, 350 trucks laden with sugar were despatched to Berlin. A
similar irrigation scheme is bringing into cultivation the Makischelin
Valley, near Aleppo, and Herr Wied has been appointed as expert for
irrigation plant in Syria. There has been considerable shortage of coal,
but now more is arriving from the Black Sea, and the new coal-fields at
Rodosto will soon be giving an output.

Indeed, it would be easier to enumerate the industries and economical
developments of Turkey over which Germany has not at the present moment
got the control than those over which she has. In particular she has
shown a parental interest in Turkish educational questions. She
established last year, under German management, a school for the study
of German in Constantinople; she has put under the protection of the
German Government the Jewish institution at Haifa for technical
education in Palestine; from Sivas a mission of schoolmasters has been
sent to Germany for the study of German methods. Ernst Marre surmises
that German will doubtless become compulsory even in the Turkish
intermediate (secondary) schools. In April 1917, the first stone of the
'House of Friendship' was laid at Constantinople, the object of which
institution is to create among Turkish students an interest in
everything German, while earlier in the year arrangements were made for
10,000 Turkish youths to go to Germany to be taught trades. These I
imagine were unfit for military service. With regard to such a scheme
Halil Haled Bey praises the arrangement for the education of Turks in
Germany. When they used to go to France, he tells us, 'they lost their
religion' (certainly Prussian Got is nearer akin to Turkish Allah) 'and
returned home unpatriotic and useless. In Germany they will have access
to suitable religious literature' (Gott!) 'and must adopt all they see
good in Ger