Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1920-03-15
Party Believed to Have Been
Crushed BY the Operation
of the ArmiStice Terms Is
Being Reorganized.
STATE DEPARTMENT
RECEIVES REPORTS
Turks Who Were Supposed
to Have Fled to Germany
When Country Surrender
ed Are at Bottom of Plot.

lay MORNING JOURNAL SPECIAL LEASED wiaxi
Washington, March IA tby the
Associated pressI The ascend
ancy to power Of the old pro-Ger-
man nationalist party N Turkey.
which has resulted in the present
Turkish crisis, is described for the
FIRST time in confidential reports
received from Constantinople by
Professor Der Hagopian of the AR
menian national delegation to the
reace conference. Copies of the
reports have been submitted to the
state department.
The nationalist party was sup
Losed to have been crushed by
operation of the armistice terms.
but its present movement. under
the leadership of Mustapha Kennel,
famous defender of the Darda-
helles, is described as rivalling that
Cf the committee of union and
progress, which in 1908 dethroned
Sultan Abdul Hamid and proceed
ed to the systematic repression of
n len races in the Ottoman EN-
pire
According to the reports, the re-
was started Immediately after the
signing of the armistice. Mustapha
eing assisted by Enver Pasha,
Ialaat Pasha and others among the
Young Turks" who were sup
posed to have fled to Germany
after Turkey surrendered. The
party began its activities outside
the immediate sphere of the gov
ernment in Constantinople and had
as Its objects the re-conquering of
the territory of the empire held by
the allies, preservation of all the
Old Ottoman empire north of
line drawn from Alexandretta 10
Mosul. along northern Arabia, and
eXterminating of the non Moslem
population of the empire.
To bring about these ends, the
reports declare. there was begun
the organization of vast pan
lSlamic movement among Afghans.
Iersians and Tartars in an effort
to embarrass the Occidental powers
IN possession of Moslem colonies.
operation with the Russian boil
sheviki also was planned.
When the supreme council at
London approached the question
CT settlement of the Turkish treaty
oi peace. the nationalist plot, the
reports declare, suddenly took
form with the massacres in Cillcia
land the military activity of Musta-
pha Kennel in Anatolia.
On April 23, 1919. a congress of
young Turks" and elements at
tracted to the nationalist move
ment. presided over bv Mustapha.
was assembled at Erzerum. Ac-
cording to the reports 1t passed
lrcsolutions calling upon the
Young Turks" to resist all att
tempts made by the allied powers
to occupy territories inhabit hy
iArmenians and Greeks or to 3eFs
vene in favor of the Greeks Ae-
menia
Confronted by move Ht,
which was dlsquieting as wel III
unwise," the report says, "Enea
Terrid Pasha. in accord with tina
sultan, decided to react agai lst 4,
with energy. But these mes arts
were belated. Mustapha was { ting
in the provinces like a SUI Anle
Gespot. All those who die not
submit to the will of the natatai
forces were prosecuted and aer-
ollessly dealt with.
"Mustapha appointed and iis-
| charged public officials of aH
ranks. Governors We're shot. 3st
of the military commanders H
l1nged to the Young Turks party
so they espoused the cause of the
national forces"