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The Asiatic Review November 1916

1916

The east or underneath part of the northern horn is the River Pruth and the Kelia branch of the Danube is the northern or left edge of the forehead. [...] The broad. open areas of Asia Minor and Mateddma. the plains of Hugary the steppes of Russia and the wastes and oases of Persia have prOved the best school for the elite of the world's chevau-legers. [...] Colonel Frank Russell writing of the same/period says :t " The great strength of the (Turkish) army lay in irregular cavalry " ; but when he comes to write of the same army in 1877 he says : " The Turkish horsemen of the present day have lost all the dash and enterprise which rendered them during the last century the terror of European armies." It would seem that the spirit and genius of the i [...] But the defection of Italy from the Triple Alliance and the adhesion to it of Turkey and Bulgaria enlisted the sympathies of the Roumanians in favour of their kindred Latin peoples of the Entente ; and the liberation of the Roumanian populations of Transylvania and the Bukovina appeared to be a stake worth playing for once the chance of the final victory of the Central Powers was discounted. [...] In applying his special experience and general knowledge thus acquired to the conditions of the present war ?n the light of history racial dispositions and the geographical features of the countries the plea of our author generally is that the boundary should follow not Avers but the ridgdivides between the rivers; and that in the readjustment after the war what is wanted is not so much a W
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Rumania and the Danube
373-381 H. Woods view
Oriental Light Cavalry
382-397 A.C. Yate view
Military Notes
398-404 F.H. Tyrrell view
Speculations on New Near-Eastern Frontiers After the War
405-411 L.A. Waddell view
Current Periodicals
412-413 unkonwn view
Greece’s Two Great Statesmen
413-413 unkonwn view
India and German Trade
414-419 unkonwn view
Proceedings of the East India Association
420-432 C.H.B. Burlton view
Discussion on The Foregoing Paper
433-438 unknown view
Pictures from Russia in War-Time the St. Isaac’s Cathedral of Petrograd
439-443 Sonia Howe view
The Historic Isolation of Russia
444-449 A. Steuart view
The Russian Hospital in London
450-453 Olga Novikoff view
Literary Supplement
454-459 unknown view
A Nestorian Bishop and his Commentaries
460-467 unknown view
Our Review of Books
468-478 F.P.M. view
Where East and West Meet
479-485 A.A.S. view
Single Verse-Poems
486-488 unknown view
Official Notifications
489-489 unknown view
Commercial Notes
490-491 J. Roome view
Backmatter
i-i unknown view