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Show TURKISH VIZIER SAYS END IS APPROACHING Justifies Entry of Turkey Into the War and Defends the Treatment of Armenians. AMSTERDAM, Sept. 2S. Turkev 's entry into the war was justified by Ta-htat Ta-htat Bey, tho grand vizier, in a long ssooch closing the. congress of tho partv of Vmnn and Progress, according to a dispatch from Constantinople. He defended de-fended the Turkish treatment of the Armenians, but admitted that the deportations de-portations could not be carried out Irregular Ir-regular forces because the gendarmes had been drafted into the army and order could not be maintained. Irregularities Ir-regularities in connection with the deportations de-portations had been investigated, he said, ami the , guilty parties had ' been punished severely, some with d.eath. Referring to the pope's peace note, Tn'aat Bey declared that Turkev adhered ad-hered to the principle of arbitration. Regarding Re-garding disarmament he said: We shall oppose no solution which is compatible with our ri'Rl interest. He concluded by saving that no Oi.e could say when peace would come, but it was obvious that the end was approaching. |