Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-01-26
TURKS SPURN REDS
NEW LEADER DECLARES
Bolshevism is Against Every Ma
Il nal Ideal We Cherish, Mustaphs
Kemal Pasha SAYS.
By Associated Press to Every Evening

! - TBS " ffREEy Evening
ConstantinopIe, Jan. I.-BoIshevigrr
has no appeal to the Turks, being contrary
/ 70 their religious training and their
| patriotic sentiment, Tustapha Kernal
/ Pasha, political and military leader ol
the Turkish nationalist movement in
Asia Minor, declared recently 30 the
Associated Press. Much interest at
tached To bis words because of late rtln1ors
that the Bolsheviki had made lnrosd,
m Turkish Asia Minor, and reports that
Enver Pasha, minister Of war here in
1914 had sponsored Bolshevik uprising
in Turkestan.
Mustapha Kernal denied his adherents
~ the nationalist cause were leagued with
Bnver Pasha or with Talaat Pasha former
grand vuIeT, who Is reported 70 have
been converted 70 Bolshevizrn. BoI-
s1evisn might result, however. from a
peace which makes the Turks q subject
people, ne asserted but he added that
such an alliance with the SOVIET power
would be but temporary.
Bloodshed would follow a peaee settle
nent which placed Greeks IN control Of
TINS city he said, and the giving Of Thrace
20 Greece would have the same resa1lt.
Bolshevism Is against every national
ideal that we cherish, and IL a peace is
made for US that viii help us TO maintain
our ideals We shall rise from the ruins
whlch are the result OF too many wars,
he sald. ''Of course If the allies force
a peace on us that furshers ire destrzle-
ton OF otIr land, It il difficult 20 predict
what viii happen. Our people might
make some sort Of an alliance with the
Bolshevikl but Bolsheviki they will
never be az heart. Their religion and
Their patriotism viii save them from II
'it Is true that Enyer Pasha appears
TO be cooperating with the BoIsheyiki
IN order that ne may establish an inde-
pendent mosiem power in TlIrkestan.
atfliIated with the Moslem Tartars of the I
caspian sea, IN Daghestan and Azer-
Dailan, but TINS Is merely TO get support /
against the British There i no nlaee 4
left on earth for him 70 20 10. He i /
somewhat IN the same plane IS LenIne .
and Irotzky who are fighting to make 4
themselves strong enough TO defend them
selves against the allies or other Russians
who would hang them.
"Enver Pasha and other Turks dragged
Is into the war on the side OF the Germans
ihough the majority OF the then cabinet
members OF parliament knew nothing
II this decision, without discussing for
he moment whether it was good or bad
or US TO get INTO the war, certainly 10
lrag into war, constitutional country
without its consent was. a great mistake.
fault OF Enver Pasha was that
e made the Turkish army conform 10
iernan direction, and naturally the
after employed our troops to favor their
obey
we nationalists have been charged
nth being in league with the old crowd
lch as Enver Tallat Pasha, once a
overnment clerk at Saloniki, and others.
his Is not true. Turkey to the Turks
our rallying cry, and it seems TO us We
ave right to it. So far as possible
e wish TO prevent dissension, and stick
} measures that viii help rebuild our
nd and people.
ANY attempt to put the Greeks IN
will start bloodshed and I
ood will continue 70 be spilled, if also
c Greeks are given Trace. a
What we want above All else is TO ?
ep our armistice boundaries intact. I
d then q chance TO develop CONNER
Ally. The problem of Turkey will q
aSe forever if we are started right !,
onomically. That Is why we have
ped SO intensely that America would
lp US There IS not peasant among
but would welcome Americans here.