Evening star., 1922-07-24
TURKS SEE FRANCE !.
AND RUSSIA ALLIED.
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Mutual Interest Against Eng
land Aids Fight On
Greeks. 4
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KEMALISTS GET PLANES.
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British Mandsted Gil Area Held
Next Goal When Athens
Force Is Defeated. :.
BY JUNIUs b. WOOD.

bH JI2IIS d. "OOD.
BY Cable to The Star and Chicago Daily News.- :
Copyright. 1872.
ALEPPO, Syria, July 2I.-That
the mutual interests of France and F.,
soviet Russia are against those of the,
British is common talk in this Turls-It
ish -infiue enced border city and center
of the chaotic politics Of the Levanr-
Russia maintains an ambassador. NJ.
Arlov. in AngoSa. who expends
thousands of dollars for propaganda -
in the British mandates of Irak ands1
Transjordaria, while most OF the war
munitions used by the Kemalists
against the Greeks are from French
sources.
A colonel sent by Mustapha kemal
Pasha spent fortnight here in aTsN
ranging with the French officials fono
shipments of munitions These are1
sometimes sent by sea to Mersina ann-1
Clicis from Beirut and Tripoli anG
some times they are landed II Alexan-
dretta, French port, and transported
overland to Ciiicia. The recent Greek
hombardment of Sefusun and MerSin1 =
is explained by the fact that the for..s.
mer is a soviet submarine base and 2
the latter a kemalist military base.
1t is generally understood that as
socn as the kemziists have yauSw
quished the Greeks they will imes..
mediately start an offensive againstfe,
Mosui in the center Of the oil felds-T
of the British mandate OF Irak. Last Il
weeks gathering of ofhcials and uoeasi
tables of the mandate here afforded AZ ~
interesting demonstration of orientafss
secretly dickerins with both the
French and the British to discoversr
which would offer the best terms for
tribal support when the anticipated =
trouble starts. *
Get French AirpIanes.
The most recent French shipment U.7.
the Kemalists included sixteen air.o.i
planes with German Hotors. Before1Je
they were shipped the planes werer-
repainted and decorated with Turkish.
insignia. Two French aviation ofnTA"
GERS are reported to be stationed at tsA
Adams. where they are fnstructing the.
kemalist air forces.
Previously reported sales of French.
munitions to the kemalists. all Of
which were secretly reported to the.
British. Italian and American gov--I.
ernments. include four field batteries ,
of sixteen guns, 5000 rounds of
shrapnel. Loco oeo rounds of small
arms ammunition, 100000 grepades.
So machine guns and 1000 horses.
The kemalists are now nesotiatinggt
for 400 trucks hoping to dispense so
with the slow camel transport and,
deal a decisive blow to the Greeks. -
According TO kemalist officials here
the soviet government offered thea1
use of the Caucasus army against the
Greeks in return for a controlling :.
voice in Turkish foreign policy and
partnership in the Turkish Oil fields.
Unless the Greek OnenaIre ASSUMES
threatening proportions. the Kemal-
lists will probably not pay the sug-
gested price for soviet assistance.
French Wfde-Awake. E.
In the meantime the French oficers = =
with the Kemalists. realizing that. /;
Turkey is not satisfied with the re-
turn of Cilicia and wants a further
slice of the present Syrian mandate.
including Aleppo. -Alexandretta and
Disrelzor. This ambition will neces-
sarily be postponed so long as the
Turkish efforts are centered on the
Irak oil fields and the rich valleys OF
the Euphrates and the TiEris &c
In addition to the istioncl feeling
that all Of Arabia belongs to Turkey
the Turks have q strouE religious
motive for, opposition In the British
mandates. The British recognize thS
Sheridan family. beaded by RusseiA
King of Hedjez and sherin OF MeccA-=-
The leading Arab families are back.
ing him and his sons. Abdullah andsat
Fejsal. the rulers Of TransjordaniA,a Il
and Jrak. Nest Of the Arabs rsfusszc5
to recognise the sultan es calipA. The
head of the Mcslem world. Russeia
sspires to the caliphate or spiritual
mead of the Moslems at least as far
Ms the Arabs are concerued: ThA
Eemaiists in aiming at the Brttisn
mandates serve spiritual as weH as
temporal ambitions. y