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Photo, Boston Photo News Co. Turkish Boy Scouts THE EASTERN QUESTION It is claimed by many of the ablest writers on pres-ent-day political and historical problems, that the great war which broke upon the world in 1914 is a continua-tion of the struggles of the European nations over what has long since been known as the Eastern Question.Dr. Marriott, in his monumental work of 1917 on the Eastern Question, says: The Near Eastern Question may be defined as the problem of filling up the vacuum created by the grad-ual disappearance of the Turkish Empire from Europe. Once more the problem of the Near East, still un-solved, apparently insoluble, had involved the world in war. In an unsolved Eastern Question the origin of the war is to be found.— The Eastern Question/ pp,3, 426, 444. Professor Seymour, of Yale, makes the following statement regarding the Eastern Question: 9^ 94 A World in Perplexity In the sense in which the term is generally used,it means the problem or group of problems that res

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