Evening star., 1921-08-23
TURK army LEADER
| DEPENDS ON FAITH
Mustapha lsmet Pasha,
|. Practically Deaf, Discusses
! War Against Greeks.
By tho Associated Pres.
HEAD0TApTEPC G

By tho Associated Pres.
HEADQUARTERS NATIONALIST
TURK ARMY. July 2o-Mustapha Isnet
Pasha, the brilliant chief of the Turk
forces, on whose patience and vile de-
pends much Of tho success or failure Of
tho nationalists. was trained IN the hard
school of frontier fighting with
AAbs. Kurds, Russians and British
during the great war, especially at
the Dardanelles, where he was chief
of stan. He is given moro to action
than to words.
Rather deaf, hearing with difficulty
only in his left ear, he isn't given ito to
the army, to the last soldier. his deaf
mesa Is known. and when he speaks
to soldiers in the ranks, as he does
often. they shout out their answers.
in full swing, Ismet Pasha invited the
correspondent to stay and go about
with him. II want to talk to you be-
cause we Turks rarely present our
side Of the case." he said. "As an
n0a friendly" So riding in his auto
mobile among the troops. or lunching
and dining with him. or over his desk.
the interview ran over many hours,
from one day to another.
Lonely in Mountains.
We are lonely out here in the
mountains, cut OFF from the world.
and we want to know what the world
is thinking about" he explained.
"All we know is that we are OBJ
liged to win the war. We are fight
ing for all we have. Our cause IS
lust We are in the position of the
french during the great war. We
didn't expect to renew the war after
the armistice. No one should accept
war except as an inevitable necessity.
Certainly the Greeks were not In this
necessity.
"This war has been brought on by
white-collared diplomats. 1t is often
said that we soldiers are cruel. and
surely we are, but wars are made
bt cynical-minded or stupid diplo-
mats far more cruel than we.
why should Greek peasants be
Fent to our land to massacre and mur-
aoesn't He at0 wish an to do this. All he knows
that he is fighting for King Con-
stantine. The king fiatters himself
that he has military talent But he
will lose the war. and also his throne
~hen his people understand how un-
aSt Is the war.
Logic Against Him.
The king thought the war would
be a promenade like the one he made
n Switzerland" exclaimed the vivacious
title general. his black eyes sparkling;
."Ths Greeks are coming with lots
bf material. These will be ours IN
ime Say the Greeks have now $4,000
much and we have the men to keep
IN Increasing our army as we capture
sroex material to outfit them. where
% the Greeks can never be stronger
numerically. They have drawn their
eat the armistice we disbanded an
[rmy of 100000 men. We can get
hem again, though now we are TAX
ng only picked men,"
Asked II he had any Germans or
Russians IN his forces, he said: OF
ourse not Have you seen any? We
son't need them.
Depends on Faith.
without faith t.s best prepared
var may be lost. We have that We
NOW our cause is just Our soldiers
nay not be spick and span: to Euro
eyes sut tfss heir hearts %ay 'a9s a9s rishs 3
nd they know how to fight. They
iii fight until told the war IS over
nd won. 1t may take ten years, but
Fe are preparing for that.
lilies thought to cruelty US. using the
reeks and Armenians to drive in the
ails. We gave up our arms and our
annon. But with an irregular army
re have slowly restored the parts to
|ur cannon, manufactured the breech
ieces removed by the British. We
ave also captured Greek material.
kewise arms and cannon sent by the
ritish to Armenia. and we have Sc
ured British supplies sent to Denni-
inc.
houldn't retake Constantinople. But
Fe must first get rid Of the Greeks
a this front"