Note 47 — TURKEY.

Now in April, 1913, the four Balkan States and Greece in a brief but bloody campaign have brought Turkey apparently to her last gasp, and it is still a matter of speculation whether she will be allowed to retain possession of Constantinople and with it the merest thread of the littoral of Europe. This has now taken place, and The Times of May 30, in a leader upon the signing of the Treaty of London, uses these epoch-making words—“The Ottoman Empire in Europe has now ceased to exist.” June, 1913.