Letters from foreign lands . ntinople,unlessI did not mind having it confiscated. Ihad been told to keep out of sight all booksupon Turkey that referred to its religion orits politics except in glowing terms of so innocent a journal as the LiteraryDigest that had been sent to me from NewYork had to be forwarded in care of the Brit-ish Postoffice, in order to keep its pages frombeing sullied by black patches where infor- 17 mation bearing upon Turkey happened tohave been printed. The fact that most of theleading nations, doing business in Turkeyhave postoffices of their own in the c
Letters from foreign lands . ntinople,unlessI did not mind having it confiscated. Ihad been told to keep out of sight all booksupon Turkey that referred to its religion orits politics except in glowing terms of so innocent a journal as the LiteraryDigest that had been sent to me from NewYork had to be forwarded in care of the Brit-ish Postoffice, in order to keep its pages frombeing sullied by black patches where infor- 17 mation bearing upon Turkey happened tohave been printed. The fact that most of theleading nations, doing business in Turkeyhave postoffices of their own in the chiefports, means more than words need tell. Fewforeigners ever use the Turkish postoffices,either in sending or receiving mail fromabroad and they avoid it, when they can, incorrespondence within Turkey. That litera-ture was under perpetual surveillance, by thecensors, was notorious. That the lips ofteachers, preachers, and physicians weresealed, as a means of avoiding persecution orunnecessary annoyance from Turkish author-. Anatolia Hospital—View in mens ward. ities, was a new revelation. Why has Turkeya well equirpped hospital and excellent Pas-teur Institute in Constantinople with nothingof the kind in the interior or remote cities ofthe empire? To put such a question to aTurk in Turkey might be almost as danger-ous as to ask why a Turkish coin, nominallyworth 80 cents, and that passes freely in themarts for 80 cents, will only be credited asworth 08 to 70 cents in the Turkish customoffice, Turkish postoffice or other Turkishgovernment office. A Syrian informed methat to ask why the government thus shavesits own money is to endanger oneself of im-prisonment. In one of the principal streets ofHtaraboul, in the busiest part of the day, andin the midst of a busy crowd 1 saw two offi- t 18 cers gag a man, lift him into a carriage anddrive off with him to—who knows where?Our dragoman seeing that we were taking in-terest in this incident hurried us along to getout of what he
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