Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1920-07-19
WAR IS RAGING
| FROM THE BLACK
TO THE DEAD SEA
Turks, Arabs, British,
French and Greeks Fight
ing in Many Places.
RED RUSSIA'S EYE IS
ON CONSTAMTINOPLE
Palestine. Syria, Cilicia, Anatolia
and Thracc Are jim Re-
ligious Ferment.
BRITISH TO CLEAR SCUTARI
Entente iegins Operations to Ex-
terminate Turkish Nationalist
bandits.
RED RUSSIA'S EYE IS
ON CONSTAMTlN0PLE
BRITISH TO CLEAR scuTARI
terminate Turkish Nationalist
Bandits.

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CONSTANTlNOPL July ls.-Thc
prediction OF d!s!ntcrcstcd statesmen
that the proposed pcace treaty with
Turkey apportioning the choices,
rnrts OF the Turkish empire among
the various European powers would
Ealkanize the entire Levant seem
!ngly has been realized.
War exists today from the B!a ck
Sea TO the Dead Sea. the Turks and
Arabs being engaged in lighting with
the Br!tish. French and Greeks In
almost countless places.
Palestine. Syria, CilIcia, Anatolia
and Thrrce are In religious ferment.
The Mohammcdans are IDassacrinG or
dcporilng' Greeks and Armen!ans.
The Christians are rctalIatIng whcr-
ever they are strong enough TO do So.
The Russian Bolshcv!sts are taking
hand through their contact in the
Caucasus with the Tar,ars. connect .
ing the Asint!c struggle with their
battle front from the Baltic TO the
Biack Sea and stirring the Moslcm
world TO greater resistance 3y prom
ising additional contact with SovGc,
Russia through Roumania and Bull
garin.
Threats OF HolshcYists.
The Bolshevists declare they viii
subjugatc these latter countries as
soon as they have attended TO Po-
land. They plan in this way to
thwart possible domination OF Tur-
key by Great Britain through sup
t!cns.
Hatreds OF centuries are being dis
played in their most hldeous form.
Religious and race prcJud.ces and in
ternatioaal battles FOR commercial
advantages in territory and for fuel
oil appear in the swirl OF which Con-
stant!noplc Is the center. Even the
Russians here, who hitherto appar-
emily had been unsympathctic. are
watching the struggle with more
complaccncy. 1t is said they hope
for actual control OF Constantinoplc
by the Moscow government in the
event OF Polands defeat and The
realization of the pledges made b.
Russia early in the war.
In high official quarters here il Is
said that Great Britain and Greece
stand alone with regard to the Turk
!sh treaty. The italians here openly
disavow the treaty. while the Frencn
acquicsce in it grumblingly.
AIustnphns Btg Army.
The indications are that Damat.
Fcrid Pasha. the Grand V!zicr, who
is decidedly Anglophile. will organ
ize new government, which will
sign the treaty in order to check a
further Greek advance into Asia
Minor. But Mustapha Kemil Pasha
and his regular troops and bandit as
sociatcs, who are variously estimated
TO aggregate from 100000 to 500. 600
are still to he dealt with.
The British and Greeks are prcpar-
Ing to clear the Scutari peninsula OF
all Nationaiists and establish line
from lsmid TO Chilch, on the Black
Sea. which will control the bandit
raids against Bosporus towns and
check communication between An
fgora and Constantinople through the
Scutari peninsula mountains.
General 1ronsides, OF the British
forces. probably will command the
troops. His headquarters will be Is
mid. Two British divisions already
arc available. These will be increased
10 an army corps. Two Greek regi-
ments will be used.
Greek Villages wiped Out.
Turkish Nationaiists continue 10
raid Greek villages on the south shore
Of the Gulf OF lsmid. The Greek pa
trinrch reports that Fouladjik, n
iireck village with population of
1000 near Karamorsal, was virtually
wiped cut July Is.
The entente is preparing for n cam
paign for the determination of ban
Hits. They will issue a warning that
Ill villages which shelter or assist
the Nationalists will be shellcd or
burned. British torpedo-boat de-
stroyers have shellcd and ruined Riva
Nationalist stronghold on the
Black Sea. near the entrance to the
Bosporus. and are carrying out spas
nodic bombardmcnts elsewhere
against the Nationalist on the Sou
.ari peninsula, who are shortly to be
attacked by land forces from the
East.
Failure by tho French troops to
i!splay tho Greek flag at review on
Iuly IA. and failure by the French to
,alute the flag when passing the