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Show TURKEY CAN SUPPLY MAIM FOOD Question of Transportation Is the Only Thing That Stands m Way CONDITIONS SET OUT Also Has Abundance of Cotton and Copper That Teutons Can Obtain BEELI Dec 21 v a London 1' 3d p m Turkey has an abundance of foods and other material of all k nds wh ch she can supply to German I Germany needs them sa d Dr 'Sa z m Be secretary of the long Turks coram ttee and one of T rkey s most prom nent men m a statement to the Associated Press on h s arrival n Ber lin today It s only a quest on ot transportat on wh ch seen s to De in a fair wav ot solut on There is no lack of anytb ng Turkey For example we have 30 000 000 k loerams of cotton wh ch Ger manv can have the moment she solves the transportation problem not to speak of 10 000 000 k logr&ms of reserve sup ply in the shape of rriattresses and other art cles n Turkish homes ; The same is true of copper Of th s we have at least 40 000 000 kilo grams vvhich Cermanj can ha e at anv time ictory Predicted t Because of th s abundance of neces sanes and of the progress of mil tary i affairs to th s time Dr Nazun Bev pre diets eventual v ctory for the central powers He js certa n Germany will arid a vav to effect transportat on , communications with Turkey in a hort t me h buch a success w u mean rndepend ft ence for Turkey for the first t me & he continued There s immeas re EL ably les of peace propaganda in Tur E? key today than anywhere else You K must remember that for decades there r has hardly been peace for ten consecu Wr tive years with ns and accord nglv we are accustomed to conflicts We K? reckon that the present conflict w 1 Ee. last from one to two years more but Bk. we are really indifferent as to the du Hi Tation of the war In any even Tur HE key will be last to call a halt. Hg Enthusiasm Prevails Hg Turkey is enthusiast c for a num K jhtf of reasons First, she had never E fodght previously under snch favora jr Jble1 conditions Second the thought of Hfr eventual independence stimulates the HJL troops tremendously Third the sol Kff' diers are sparred on by hatred of the r HE?' enemies Th s hatred is engendered J Jby illegal aets The Turks regard the HF allies as barbarians and when cap Hp. ured in a wounded condit on frequent Hj& 73y refuse food or drink from their cap HM vtors though when condit ons are re Hg versed the Turks give the r prisoners MR? freely of their food HP Dr Vazim Bey spoke calmly except 0; -when the subject of the world s un WBt; pression of Turkish Armenian relations H$ was brought up Of this he talked in B' bitter words America in particular Wf he said had gained a false impress on B in two ways First investigators of Br conditions bad not been neutral or un W biased Second these invest gators B? went to the wrong sources for their Kit information to Greeks Jews and Ar e menians who are Turkish subjects and be grudges to air , f Likes This Country Every time a Turk does someth ng pra seworthv in th s world he s hailed as an rmen an be eont nued but f every time he commits a cr me or acts baselv he s a Turk or someth ng else r Exrressmg h mself as an ardent ad mire of An er a and most th ogs mer can an 1 le lar ng Turkey need ed the trade of the Un ted States even more than of Germany Dr Nazim Bev nevertheless asserted the deli erv of ' ammunition bv Americans to the all es had ser ed greatly to estrange the two peoples Dr Na? m Bev took ssue w th those who have sa d the Brit b o H ba e broken through the Dardanelles n March f they had been w 11 ng to make a little greater sa r fi e He nsists the pr nc pal forte were not dam aged and that the had p entv of am mun t on to repel anv attack |