Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-04-15
TURKEY DEF1Es THE AXE.

Greek armies, invading Turkey, are whipped
by the armies of Mustapha Kemal. The battles
are fought so close to Constantinople that the
allies hold there is imperiled. 1t may develop
into a general scrap.
Renal for a year has been boasting that he
would whip the invading Greeks, then drive
the British out of Palestine, the French out of
syria and the Italians out of their foothold at
Adalfa, in southern Asia Minor.
The outstanding feature of the situation is
that the allies are going to have a mighty job
enforcing the unratifed Turkish peace treaty.
The Treaty of Sevres left little to the once
powerful Turkish empire. 1t ended Turkeys right
in Egypt and Morocco and reduced her to the
relatively small strip of territory between Con-
stantinople in the west and the Armenia-Arabia
in the east.
The sultan was about to sign this treaty, when
Mustapha Renal took a hand. Followed by the
leading nationalist leaders, he retreated to the
interior and set up rule in the Anatoian city,
Angora. Today Kemal is the real ruler of Tur-
key. He has a well-equipped army estimated
1T 200. 900. And he's where the allies can't east
ly get their fingers on him.
Renal demands revision of the Sevres Treaty
He defes the sultan and wants him divorced
from headship of the church. His
chief row is with the invading Greeks.
Lloyd George and Millerand a year ago told
the Greeks, then led by Venizelos, to go get
Renal" Marshal Foch said the Greeks couldn't
do it, that it would require half a million troops.
The Greeks went ahead. invaded Anatoiia, and
in June, 1920, were badly whipped by Renal.
Now Greece has tried it again. She has been
getting another walloping. She has big casual
" lists and has spent q lot of money for nothing.
Whether she has been spurred on again by Paris
and London, is not known. One thing is certain,
t~hough-Greece invaded Turkey in defiance of
advice from the best allied military experts.
Mustapha Kemal demands autonomy for
Thrace instead of giving these rich Turkish ag-
ricultural lands to Greece.
lie also demands restoration of Smyrna to
Turkey instead of putting it under Greek charge
for a fixed term of years with the probability CT
eventual Greek Ownership
Rich plums for the Greeks! Constantine
reaches for them.
The allies who drowned softly when Con-
s"tantinc returned to his throne, now see the
Greek Armies going down Turkeys outlet and
the allies position in the Near East endangered
The Greek people may soon wonder If the
game Is worth the candle.
The hen that doesn't cackle has no egg to adj
vertise.
Cleanup Week we'll may be followed by fifty
one Keep-Klean weeks.
Railroads have not a monopoly on inability
to show a profit" !
" -nt- WIN will knnrk the backbone
out of most any man.
Livestock men have learned that there's most
dough in best bred cattle.
And some girls, as you may have noticed, nave
the cheek to take Paint-Up Week literally.
You never know how beautiful this country is
until you look at pictures In a railway time
table.
A lot of us probably thought Rene viviani
vaudeville expedition.
Mr.. Taft will add considerable weight to the
supreme bench if appointed chief justice. e
tips the scales at 500.
That gent approaching in the near-distance is
the spring fisherman with a story about the big
one that got away.
The real home problem these days is not to
get the curtain -stretchers crooked.
Records excavated in Mesopotamia show peo-
pie had land mortgages 400 years ago, same
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