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Show TURKEY HOLDS TO POSITION Won't Allow Prisoner Privileges of American Citizen. WASHINGTON. Sept. ll.-Mlnlster Lclshman's reports to tho State department depart-ment Indicate that tho Turklph Government Govern-ment Is disposed to maintain strongly its position that the naturalized American who has been sentenced to death for murder mur-der at Stamboul shall be treated as a Turkish subject and can not be allowed the privileges of an American citizen. Tho Minister Is continuing his efforts In bo-half bo-half of Vartanlan. Tho Turkish Government Govern-ment has so far not formally proposed the settlement of this Ihsuo by arbitration and It appears that Mr. Lelshman would be obliged to decline any such proposal. American Law Is Different. Tho American law as to citizenship Is different from that of any of the European Eu-ropean countries, which almost uniformly require that their assent shall ho secured to tho naturalization abroad of their subjects, sub-jects, bo that It wrould probably be Impossible Impos-sible to secure an arbitration court that would not be obliged to hold that International Interna-tional law was adverse to the American position. |