Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-05-09
BY OLIVER OWEN KUHN.

NURkEY this week receives the
world sentence for her perfidy
during the world war. In Paris
the sultans delegates will be
officially and formally appraised of the
peace terms of a3lied nations.
But though the sentence be handed
down it becomes increasingly apparent
that it will but further serve the pur-
pose of Mustapha kemal. the Turkish
nationalist leader, who is fighting for
the complete throwing of. of European
dictation in the affairs Of Turkey and
for the preservation Of old Turkey.
which unquestionably under the terms
about to be delivered will be left but a
skeleton of it's former self Kemars ac-
tions have been predicated largely upon
assumption that the allies would show
Turkey no mercy. With the publication
of the terms his hand In so far as Tur-
key itself Is concerned will be imneas-
urably strengthened and the scope and
quality of resistance to the application
of allied panaceas to Turkish ills en-
larged.
Turkey Will BE Cut Up.
Under the Turkish terms the Darda-
nelles will be lost, Thrace in practically
its entirety will fall under Grecian con-
troll, Smyrna will go to the Greeks. Brit
ain will control Palestine and Mesopo-
tamia and regions lying between India
and the one-time Turkish empire, Ar
menia will be an Independent state. and
eventually will be eradicated through
recognition of various small states,
which, in the final analysis, if they live,
must come under allied or Russian con-
troll.
Temporarily Russian influence is at
its crest, but that eventually this re-
gion will revert to allied influence Is al
most beyond question. though bolshe.
vistic principles here alone always will
remain a potential menace to unmo-
Tested British control of India Its
scotching will prove herculean task.
1t matters little whether the sultan
is permitted to retain his abode in
Constantinople. Catering to the sui
refusal to recognize the nationalist
regime. which today represents the
real power of Turkey. Capitulation to
allied terms by the sultan's govern
ment, through which the allies must
perforce at the present deal, naturally
is expected, for the sutton has little
power to resist. But equalization by
the sultan to the inevitable but
strengthens the power OF Mustapha
Renal, who is assiduously undermine
ing the influence of the ruler among
strict believers by the guise Of pa
triotism.
Must Use Great Army.
Allied military investigators have
stated that the allies will be forced
to use an army Of at least 100000 men
to restore peace to the near east. The
statement is not exaggerated in the
least. Because Of the peculiar charac-
ter of the terrain on which such bat
ties as may come as the result of ma
tionalist opposition to the peace
terms the Turks will able to fight
for many months in guerilla If not
organized fashion, and they have at
the present moment in the neighbor-
hood of 100000 organized men in
bands which are Juggling at the
teaches. The depredations and mas
sacres which have been prevalent for
many months past, all of which have
been indicative Of the Turkish will to
disobey allied DEGREES, will. 1T is ex-
pected, fade into insigniflcance when
NIustapha Renal announces the war
decree, and which he unQuestionably
will do at the first announcement of
peace terms SO INSTANTANEOUS to
Turkish interests.
The soldiers Mustapha Kemal
are well armed. Practically the whole
OF Turkeys war supplies are in his
hands. There are organized branches
of the service and In addition he has
a plentiful supply Of heavy guns and
munitions with which to wage the
struggle. The strength of Mustapha
Renal is clearly indicated by the ac-
ton Of the Constantanople govern