The Morgan County press. (Wartburg, Tenn.) 1916-1926, 1920-07-23
RELIGIOUS BATTLING
IN FIVE SECTIONS
cLASHlNG OF ARMS is HEARD IN
VAST REGION BETWEEN THE
BLACK AND DEAD SEAS.
Christians Retaiatine After Turk At
tacks-Greeks and Armenians VIC
tins of MosIems-Troops Are to
Suppress Raiding in Bosphorus.

Suppress Raidln9 IN 6osphoros'
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES of disin-
terested statesmen that the proposed
peace treaty with Turkey apportlon-
ing the choicest parts of the TURKISH
Empire among the various european
Powers would Balkanize the entire Le-
want, seemingly has been reallZeu.
War exists from the Black Sea TO the
Dead Sea, the Turks and Arabs Deihg
engaged in fighting with the British,
French and Greeks in almost countess
places. Palestine, Syria, Clllcla, Ana
tola and Thrace are in religious Ter
ment. Mohammedans are massacrlhe
or deporting Greeks and Armenlahs'
Christians are retaliating wherever
they are strong enough to do so.
The Russian Bolsheviki are taxing
q hand through their contract IN lne
Caucausus with the Tartars, connect
ing the Asiatic struggle from thelr
battle front from the Baltic to the
Black Sea and stirring the Moselem
world to greater resistance by prom
ising additional contact with Soviet
Russia through Roumania and Bull
gnria. The Bolsheviki declare they
will subiugate these latter countries
as soon as they have attended to 70
land. They plan in this way to thWart
nossible domination of Turkey by
Great Britain through support OF
Greek territorial aspirations. Hatreds
of centuries are being displayed IN
their most hideous form. Religious
and race prejudices and international
battles for commercial advantages IN
territory and for the fuel oil appear IN
the swirl, of which COnstantinople is
the center.
Even the Russians here, who hith-
erto apparently had been unsym-
pathetic, are watching the struggle
with more complacency. They hope
for actual control of COnstantinople
hv tie Moscow Government in the
event of Polands defeat and the real
izatifn of the pledges made by rms
sia daliy in the war. In high Official
quarters here it is said that Great
Britain and Greece stand alone with
regard to the Turkish treaty. The
Italians here openly disavow the
treaty. while the French acquiesce in
it grumblingly.
The indications are that Damad
Ferid Pasha, Grand ViZier, who is de-
cidedly angiophile, will organize new
Government which will sign the treaty
in order to check a further Greek adj
vance into Asia Minor. But Mustapha
Renal Pasha and his regular troops
and bandit associates, who are estl-
mated variOusly to aggregate from
100000 to 100000, still are to be dealt
with.
British and Greeks are preparing tc
clear the Scutari peninsula of all ma
tiOnalists and establish a line from
Ismid to Chilep, on the Black Sea
which will suppress bandit raids
against BosphOrus towns and checl
communication between Angora an(
ConstantinOple through the Scutar
Peninsula Mountains. General Iron
sides, of the British forces, prObabl,
will command the troops. His head
quarters will be Ismid. Two British
divisions already are available. Thes
will be increased to an army corps
Two Greek regiments will be useC
Turkish NatiOnalists continue to raj
Greek villages on the south shore o
the Gulf of Ismid. The Greek Patr
arch reports that Fouladjik, Gree
village, with a population of 2,OOt
near Karamorsal, virtually was de
stroyed July 10. The Greeks were shu
inside the church, which was set o
fire. The Patriarch reports that ther
are only $50 Greeks alive in the vi
lage