Apropos of the "etch military critics's belief that German operations are at pres-ut designed hold up Russia while Germany ¢stablished herself in Asia Minor, whence she is drawing raw mater-mis and foods-offs; the "Literary Digest" quotes several extracts from German papers, showing their deep interest in the possi ties of Asia Minor. Thus the "Berliner Tagebla! counts on wool from the Mwander plain and other paris, cotton from the Adana dis-copper from the Euphrates opium from the many for the manufacture of morphia and chloroform. The "Hamburger Fremdenblatt", meanwhile, looks ahead to the completion of the Baghdad railway when united commercial sphere will stretch the North Sea to the Persian Gulf id as fav as the frontiers of India, and the rich products of Asia Minor—grain and cotton—can find the way to the Central Powers without laud's fleet being able to interfere.
The one "doubting Thomas" is the Rhenische - Weslphaelische Zeitung", who thus contrasts fact and theory "Whoever knows that the sea-freight to Buenos Aires from Ruhrort on the Rhine is lees than the railroad freight. rate from Rubrort to Berlin will shake head when he heara that masses of
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