FOOTNOTES
[1] Dardanelles Commission; First Report, par. 46.
[2] Speech in Foreign Office Debate, July 10, 1914. The whole question of Germany’s relations to Turkey is discussed with his usual knowledge by Mr. H. N. Brailsford in A League of Nations, chap. v.
[3] Sir Edward Grey, in the House of Commons, October 14, 1915; Foreign Office Statement, November 1, 1914. On the authority of the Kaiser, in conversation with M. Theotokis, Greek Minister in Berlin, it now appears that Germany had already concluded an alliance with Turkey on August 4, 1914. (See Greek White Book, published August 24, 1917.)
[4] See Turkey, Greece, and the Great Powers, by G. F. Abbott (1917), pp. 167–200.
[5] Changing their religion with their sky, the Goeben and Breslau became the Jawuz Sultan Selim and the Midilli in the Turkish Navy. See Two War Years in Constantinople, by Dr. Harry Stürmer, p. 113. In an action at the entrance to the Dardanelles, January 20, 1918, the Breslau was sunk, and the Goeben had to be beached at Nagara Point. We lost the monitor Lord Raglan.
[6] Dardanelles Commission; First Report, par. 45 (omitted in first publication, but inserted shortly afterwards).
[7] The subject was fully discussed with the present writer by M. Skouloudis, at that time Premier in Athens (November 9, 1915). That veteran statesman was apparently honest in his belief both in the King’s military genius and in the King’s good faith towards the Allies—a belief unfounded in both cases.
[8] Dardanelles Commission; First Report, pars. 47, 48.
[9] Dardanelles Commission; First Report, pars. 50–52.