The Washington times., 1920-03-03
Says MosIemS Will Massacre
Christians If Driven Out
of Europe.
CONSTANTINOPLE THE PRIZE
Asserts Nation Will Last as
Long as One Turkish
Heart Beats.
BY KARL H. Won WIEGAND.

Copyright. 1870. Star Coz
BERLIN, March 2-If the Turk
ish nation is "robbed" of Constan-
tinople, their capital for 500 years
and the seat of Mohammedanism; if
the nation is broken up and denied
the right of self-determinaticn by
the great powers, the Turk "will
set the Moslem world aflame, and
there will be no peace in the Orient"
That is the threat made by Enver
Pasha, national hero of Turkey and
probably the most romantic figure
in the Orient, in a letter to me from
his secret retreat. Enver. it will be
remembered, led the Turk forces
against the Italians in Tripoh
Became Turk Leader.
He then became one of the chief
figures in the Young Turk movement
, which resulted in the dethronement
of Abdul Hamid. He then became
minister of war and commander-in-
chief OF the furnish armies In the
world war.
The occupation of Constantinople
by the allies forced him to fee, and
he was sentenced to death by the new
government, but this verdict was set
aside by the Young Turks when they
returned to power.
Recent dispatches have reported
Enver at the head of 10000 troops in
the Caucasus; others that he had been
made king of Kurdistan, and still
others that he Is in Turkestan, work
I I'M wi n
Residence n Secret.
His letter. which was written in
Turkish, with German translation
| accompanying it, stipulated that the
place of origin be kept secret. 1t was
submitted to officials here who have
had close relations with Enver and
pronounced authentic. The letter
| follows:
'The occasion for my writing this
letter is the many rumors OF ap-
preaching peace to be dictated to my
country by its enemies. I do not
know what policy England and
France intend pursuing toward my
| country or what goal they have set
for themselves in Turkey.
at is rumored that Constantinople
| is to be taken from us, the Turkish
nation to be broken up and partition
|
as in Independent state in the family
| of nations.
Smyrna, the one and only good
harbor in the Near East for almost
thousand years, with a preponderat-
ing Mahommedan population. already
has been handed over to the Greeks.
The French have occupied Cilicia and
have crossed the mountains to Ma
rash. arming the Armenians stirring
H.. L. 80 AhVNA
hoping to prepare the way for terri
torial plundering and the final disso-
luton of Turkey.
Turks VIII Fight.
Verify, ] say to you, never will the
Turkish nation disappear as long as
one Turkish heart continues to beat
for it's country--so long as the faith
full Moslem in far-off Moscow, as we'll
as in Zambezia; from Java to the At
Iantic coast of Africa, inclines his
head in prayer toward the holy places.
''Thc statesmen who seek TO break
up my country forget that the Turk
| ish nation is the embodiment OF the
national yearning of the whole Ma
hommedan world. The Ottoman ma
ton numbers barely 25,00O,000, but
the walls of STEAMBOAT harbor the sui
tan, ruler of all the faithful, the sue
cessor of the Prophet, who directs the
thoughts and the souls Of the three
hundred million faithful throughout
the entire world.
Turks Arc Everywbcre.-
"The Turkish language sounds
clear into Siberia. The Mongolian
mother, the rowing kirghiz and Yakut
on the border OF the Arctic sea, sing
the same songs to their children as
are heard In the palaces on the Blue
Bosphorus.
Before the war educated Osmanli
read Turkish newspapers from Tash-
kent and Kazan with the same Gag
erness as he did the Arabian proverbs
in the Atlas mountains OF northern
Africa, or in the desert of Alden
messages OF his co-religionists suf-
fering under tho foreign yoke.
Have the wise men OF Versailles.
Paris and London forgotten history7
Know they not that Moslems have
never docilely tolerated n foreign
body polite within the borders of
their own native land that II was
! Turkish troops who under Salaitn,
defeated tho Crusaders and finalk