The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-12-07
TURKEY STIRRED ID ACTION BY THE WORK
 GF MUSTAPHA PASHA
With We'll Organized Army Sick Nation Has Come Back in Astounding
 Fashion
By CLARE PRICE.


 London, November 10.-(special.) )-what mas been accomplishe don a small scale at Flume, is nearing completion upon d pig scale in Turkey. Mustapha Kemal Pasha, the Turkish D'Annunzio, has heized Turkey for the Turks, while Paris mas been debating it's partition among Turke yhas "come back" in astounding fashion.
 With the Turkish Third and Fifteenth army corps, with 1000 demobilzed Turk ish regulars, all of them armed, ar< with B strong national army at his back, Mustapha Kemal has compelled the sultan government at Constantinope to surrender and may be in a position to dictate the terms that Turkey will ac- cept to the allies,
 Turkey was let off easily when the Turkish armistice was sikned in October, IBIS The allied powers wanted the Turk ish armistice in a hurry for the moral effect it would have in Germany. No occupation of Turkey in Asia was pro vided for in the armistice. and none would have been possible. considering the mountainous nature of the country, the limited military strength at the ale lies disposal and the vast areas under allied occupation in Syria and Mesopo- tama.
 Turkey at that time was~helpless
 
 Asia Minor still under Turkish civil ad- ministration, the allies, for the time be- ing. contented themselves with the con trol of the Sultan's government at Cox stantinopie.
 The Turks, relying on the twelfth paragraph of the fourteen opnits, which guaranteed the retention of Turkish sov- ereignty over Turkish soil, took the sIt- uaotion resignedly until Paris authorized the Greek occupation of Smyrna. The Smyrna episode destroyed at single stroke Turkish faith in Europe's adher- ence to the fourteen points. It showed the Turks that, whatever President Will son might say. Europe intended to pay off it's debts to Greece and Italy by the distribution of Turkish territory
 When l was in Konia last July the bali of Konia was the only stand pat Turkish vali in nationalist chain that spread from Erzeru mon the old Turco- Russian frontier to the frontiers of the area of Greek occupation back of Smyrna. Turkish propag aganda was being heavily directed at the vali of Konia at that time. I spent one evening at Turkish movie show in Konia. After the show the house resolved itself with no attempt at secrecy into a Turkish political nationlist songs The few Amer jeans directing the American hospital in Konia were ready for serious trouble at any moment. It was the talk then that the Turkish nationalist movement which was sweeping Asia Minor had as its programme the extermination of the Christian clements in the interiors, and what limits rising would reach were matters of guesswork.
 Since that time the Vali of Konia has been compelled to go over to the nation alists. The nationalist organization in the interior Of Asia Minor is complete. The nationalist pregremme, as laid down by Hustapha Kenal it's creator, insists upon the retention of Turkish sovereignty over Turkish territory, which means that Turkey will not re- sign itself to Greek sovereignty over Smyrna to Italian sovereignty over Adalia and Konia. to French sovereignty over Cilicia, to the Green Uontus pro- ject or to the return of Armenians from the Armenian republic of Erivan in the Russian caucasus acros sthe Turco-Ar- menian frontier to their old homes in the six eastern vilayets of Asia Minor. The nationalist insist on the twelfth paragraph of the fourteen points. with an American mandate over the Turkish ter ritory.
 The seriousness of the situation thus created cannot be overestimated To com bat the Turkish nationalsts would re- quire the occupation by the allied powers