Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-07-23
ALL POWER STRIPPED
FROM TURKISH SULTAN
Nationalist, Working With Boil.
sheviki, Seek to Undermine
Britain in East.
Of The Star and Chi
cagO Daily News.

Correspondence Of The Star and Chi.
cagO Daily News.
CONSTANTINOPLE, Turkey, May
3O.-The Turk is to be allowed to
stay in Constantinople, which dissat-
isles some of the allies and has not
pleased the Turks enough to make
them quit fighting. Constantinople
is much less Turkish than Adrianople
and the latter has been given to
Greece. The sultan remains in Con-
stantinople, but he has less power
than the British policeman strolling
up and down the main street. All
those Turks who had any capacity
have moved across to Asia and there
nave their own government. They
don't need Constantinople any more
than they need the sultan.
Thus the sultan has lost control
of his Asiatic provinces and, accord
ing to the treaty. all that is left to
him is strip of land Of not more
than twenty-five miles north Of Con-
stantinople. Constantinople will be
controlled by allied troops for a long
time to come. The government in
Asia Minor has announced that it
will not recognize anything the Con-
stantinople government may sign and
gates, who, of course. were not rec
ognized by the allied powers. The
belief is that the Constantinople gov
eminent is going to sign the peace
treaty. though everybody here real
ICES that the government will not be
able to execute it.
There is no doubt that there is
certain amount of antagonism among
the allied powers in regard to the
treaty with Turkey. France, espe-
cially, feels hurt. The French Of
ficials here contend that Great Brit
tain has taken advantage of Frances
troubles with Germany to transform
this country into British province
very much like Egypt These appar-
ent dissensions have encouraged the
Turks in Asia to take firm attitude
toward the allies. A few military
successes have SO raised their morale
as to make them believe Europe will
never be able to enforce the treaty.
The greatest encouragement to re-
sistance has come to the Turks from the
bolshevik government in Moscow. For
months there has been an active inter-
course between Mustapha Kemal. the
leader of the Turks in Asia Minor, and
the Lenin government. The ideals OF
the bolsheviks are not at all compatible
with the Mussulman religion, but the
idea of proclaiming himself bolshevik
and thus soaring the gentlemen at the
peace conference in Paris appealed to
Mustapha Renal, who ordered the
Sheikul-Islam (the religious chief, to
| find points of resemblance between the
Koran and the bolshevik doctrines. 1t
was not difficult. and ever since the
Turkish government at Angora has
worked hand in hand with the bolshe-
vik government
In Asia now we have a repetition Of the
| politics which disturbed the peace of
| Europe for almost century; the rivalry
| between Russia and Great Britain for
| India. The only difference is that while
| in the old days the cars government
| intrigued and dreamed of taking India
| by force of arms. the Lenin government
wants to accomplish the same thing by
| the force of an idea. this idea being that
any country can rule itself if it desires.
| The only thing it needs to do is to kick
| out it's masters The Turk nationalists
| in order to save their empire are ready
| to give hand to the bolsheviki and
brew dissatisfaction and foment revolu-
| ton in Afghanistan and Persia in the
hope of embarrassing the English, whom
| they consider soley responsible for the
| partition of the Ottoman empire
Agents leave thence for Persia and Az
| ghanistan.
81 don't need arms or ammunition -
| wrote Mustapha Renal to one of his
friends here. "An 1 want you people
to do is to send me a few hundred en-
terprising and clever speakers able to
carry our words and convince the ignor-
ant masses in Persia and Afghanistan
that it is now or never II they are to get
rid Of their masters. The British have
100 many irons in the fire and II we ac.
cniclSiv our success is certain."U