The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1918-12-13
Continued from Previous Issue)

Meanwhile Bedri and his minions
were busy arresting some Of the
doomed English and French. The de-
portation was arranged 10 take place
Thursday morning on Wednesday the
excitement reached the hystericsl
stage. 1t seemed as II the whole for
eign population Of C~onstAnttnople had
gathered at the American embassy,
Scores Of weeping women and haggard
men assembled in front and at the side
Of the building. more than three hun
dred gained personal access TO my Of
flee, hanging desperately upon the am
bassador and his staff. Many almost
seemed to think that ! personally held
their fates IN my hand. in their agony
of spirit some even denounced me- IN
sisting that | was not exerting all my
powers in their behalf. Whenever
left my office and passed into he
hail l was almost mobbed by scores Of
ferror-stricken and dsheveled mothers
and wives. The ervou tension was
efrtghtful; ! sliced the telephone, called
VIEW We Env'F' and demanded a" inter
He replied that he would be happy
10 receive me on Thursday By this
time, however, the prisoners would
ALREADY nave been OF their way to Gal
mo" l replied, 81 must see you this
Enver made all kinds OF excuses; he
WAS busy, he had appointments sched-
hled for the whole day,
y presume you, want to see, me
about the English and French" he
said "Tf that Is 50, I can tell you now
that II will be useless, Our minds are
smade up. Orders have been issued TO
THE police to gather them all by to-
might and to ship them down tomorrow
morning"
! still insisted that l must see him
THAT afternoon and he still attempted
10 dodge the interview.
"My time Is all taken" he said.
ts"The council Of ministers sits at 4
sU'elOck and the meeting Is to be a
VERY Important n l can't absent
embroidered by the thought Of the
,EFowds Of women that were flooding
the whole embassy ] decided on an
altogether unprecedented move. .
ST shall not be denied an interview,
I replied. Il shall oone up 10 the cab
lfnet room at 4 o'clock. II you refuse
10 receive me then, | shall insist or
going into the council room and dis
enssfng the matter with the whole cab
Elnet. shall be interested to learr
whether the Turkish cabinet will re
fuse to receive tho American ambas
ASador."
II seemed to me that / could almos
hear Enver gasp over the telephone,
kpresume few responsible ministers o
any country have eve had such al
Astounding proposition made to them,
IF you will meet me at the sublime
yporte at $3.50" he answered, after
considerable pause, Il shall arrange t
iGee you"
: when l reached the sublime porte
IVA told that the Bulgarian ministe
was having a prutracted conference
with Enver. Naturally / was willinI
to wait, for I knew what the two me
were discussing, Presently NJ, Kolou
chef anne out; his face was e
and anxious, clearly revealing. the or
deal through which he had Just passed
1T is perfectly hopeless" he said I
me. Nothing will move EnveRt he
absolutely determined that this thin
shall 20 through. ] can not wish 20
good luck, for you will have none"
The meeting which followed hetwee
Enver and myself was the most me
entou l had had up 10 that tim
We discussed the fate OF the foreign
ers for nearly an hour. found Ell
yer In one Of his most polite but mo
u%nyielding moods. He told me befol
] began that II was useless to talk
that the matter vas a closed issu
But l insisted on telllnR MIN what
splendid impression Turkeys trcatmel
of her enemies had made on the gu
side world. Your record In this ma
ter Is better han that Of any otht
helligorent country" | said, You hay
not put them into concentration camp
you have let them stay here and cor
tinue their ordinary business. just a
before. You have done this in spit
of strong pressure to act otherwist
Why do you destroy all the good effeC
this has produced by now making sue
q fatal mistake as you propose?'
But EnVer insisted that the allie
fleets were bombarding unfortifie
towns, killing women, children an
wounded men,
I'VE have warned them through yo
that they must not do this he sal
''but they don't stop"
This statement, Of course, was M
true, but I could not persuade Env'
that he was wrong. He expresse
great appreciation for all hat | ha
done and regretted for my sake thu
he could not accept my advice, | to
him that the foreigners had suggestt
that ! threaten to give up the care
British and French interests.
Nothing would suit us better" |
quickly replied. THE only difficulty "
have with you he when you come arour
and bother US with English and FTenC
affairs"
l asked him II / had ever given hi
any advice that had led them in
Trouble. He ~graciousiy replied TIL