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Show CHRISTIAN MADE TO DIG TURK TRENCHES A DANA. Cllicia, June 5. MustaphS Eternal pasha, head of the Turkish nationalist na-tionalist government, has given ord re for the conscription of all Christian residents In Cilicia They are to be formed into labor brigades and sent to the front lino trenches to assist tho Turkish armj In its war against the Greek:?. The Turkish newspapers are coming com-ing out boldly in advocacy in a pol- Icj Of clearing out all Christiana fromj Cilicia so that the countrv may be-j come purel Moslem. Many Chrls-j i i.i ps re .r-i ric: i. ii . incl on p9 .i I rli.tr. -s ,tnd thir n-tatcs CSM; '.i-., I .nil .-"111 on tho 1 1 leg iClOSJt thej belonged to the Turks befofBc" wur. U is estimated here that f uln per cent 0f the Armenians In fM- !have either tieen conscripted, d; cd. Uilleil or. have died of tarTM A large number ot tho" rL-mSjp I have embraced the Moslem falL as to escape persecution. |