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Show r' TURKISH EMISSARIES PREACHING REVOLT AS ALLIES WITHDRAW ARMY I - BELIEVE EUROPE 1MET8J! jjii? Mustapha Kemal Leads Hos- j tile Movement to Threw - Off European Bonds By SIR PlSnCIVATj 1'UIULIVS, Stuff Correspondent of Uio International Interna-tional Xcws Service nncl the London Lon-don Dnlly Express. ADAJL.IA, Anatolia seems to bo infected in-fected with anti-European unrest fomented fo-mented from Mustapha Kcmal's headquarters at Konia. Mustapha's emissaries have con touring the country preaching a revolt re-volt against the Allies and declaring that a carefully organized movement has every chance of success, as Europe 13 unable at this tlmo to undertake - a new and costly campaign in Asia Minor, and also pointing to the vi.h-drawal vi.h-drawal of Franco from Marash U3 ; evidence of the results to be obtained ' by a rising on a greater scale. A col-. col-. oncl from Kcmal's staff visited Adnlia ' a few days ago and had secret Interviews Inter-views with Influential Turks at the , local club. He said the army wils , ready to fight for the integrity of Turkey, and promised a coup at Con-.r Con-.r stantinople within a month, as a re- ; suit of which the provinces would be guaranteed liberation from European 'domination and the freedom of the' capital would be secured. The propagandists propa-gandists aro undoubtedly influencing the people. 1 j Veiled Hostility. I I found the attitude of the Turks I hero one of thinly veiled hostility. H while a number were opcrily offensive I .in the bazaars, in contrast to the jm- tives of Merslna, where ;i strong H French colonial force, with machine guns and artillery, holds the port. H The railway service 10 the interior la Irregular and unsafe for foreign-B foreign-B ors. Armenians continue to flee to the coast by train and road, and there H has been an exodus from Adana. The majority arc emigrating, ter-H ter-H ; rorlzed by the threats of the Moslems, H ' aro are paying exorbitant prices for H , passages in overcrowded steamers, H - '- somo to Cyprus, many to America. B Press Into Army. f Mustapha has been strengthening B. J his force of regulars by press ai.g H ' methods, thus securing many unwill-Bj unwill-Bj ing recruits from the villages. It is Hi estimated the nucleus of his army MA r consists of two divisions, largely sea-SK, sea-SK, soned troops, concentrated north of Qlp r lho Taurus Mountains, while another Bg V force is close to the frontier o the 1- Greek zone round Smyrna, where con-slant con-slant outpost fighting is taking place, costing t!;e Greeks twenty casualties weekly on an average. Mustapha has drawn a cordon to prevont foodstjfls i and merchandise from leaving Apa-5 Apa-5 tolia for the territory occupied by the 5 Allies, and thero is no trade- what- ever with the interior. He lins also been negotiating with the Arab Government for joint opera-, opera-, tions in Northern Syria to occur simultaneously sim-ultaneously with a rising. in Anatolia. The troops there are chiefly irregular levies operating independently and in-- in-- tent on pillage, but they would b.j inclined in-clined to join the regulars ii Inducc-j Inducc-j ments wero sufficient. Work With Ttcils.' 'Bolshevist agents are said to have reached Mustapha's headquarters from Russia via the Black Sea, but it is impossible to say what reliance can ' be placed on allegations made on the coast of some kind of working agrce-mcnt agrce-mcnt with tho Leninites, .- i I am assured by individuals who are thoroughly informed of the sit- a uation and have a long knowledge of ; the Turkish character, and of Musta-i Musta-i pha's resources that no serious revolt . is possible if the Allies undertake en-.t en-.t ergetic and prompt measures. Tho A- Turks fear aeroplanes more than anything, any-thing, and a few bombing raids on the principal centres of unrest would tend to restore them to sanity. |