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Show TURKEY REGRETS ENTERING 11 Heir to Ottoman Throne Says People Ashamed of j Armenian Atrocities. ! Asserts Foreign Assistance i Is Needed to Bring Post-War Post-War Success. ! CO.'STAXTIN-OII,K, Nov. 24. (By the j AHHo.-ialc.J Dress. ) "This last war was j j the most disastrous In the history of Turkey, Tur-key, not because tihe was beaten, but be-tiiu.Hfl be-tiiu.Hfl it made enemies of nations natural-I natural-I Iv our friends," declare 1 Abdul MedJId Kffendl, heir to the Ottoman throne, to i Die correspondent of the Associated j t're.a, whom Iio received today. "'The present sultan and myself," lie continued, "denounced the proposal that Turkey on tor the war. Mohammed V, who was then reigning, showed weakness before a clique of adventurers Hko Talaat Hey ' ttnd Enver F!ey, Dion cabinet ministers, min-isters, and now fugitives, whom Germany had led with dreams of power. Ashamed of Atrocities. "I am more ashamed of the Armenian Atrocities committed during the war than of anything In our history, but 1 must I insist that they were against the will of j the present sultanate as a whole. They I were instigated by patriotic mlnlstora who were guaranteed in their serviced by the services to German militarism. The fanaticism of remote tribes in their dislike for their neighbors and the brutality bru-tality of provincial officers served as the mediums, while tho censored press hero concealed the facts frum the general public. pub-lic. The members of the imperial family tried to make use of their- prestige against j litis but were imprisoned in the palace. Need Assistance. "OT the future I can say wo must have l foreign assistance, as tho country is ex-haunted. ex-haunted. We prefer to deal with one nation, because the difficulties of international inter-national control have been shown elsewhere, else-where, but we welcome any control not menacing the sovereignty of the caliph." Dr. Risa Tewi'ik, the minister of public instruction, who was received at the same time as the correspondent, complained com-plained of the provincial officials appointed by the former ministers and stiil retained because of the hick of other trained men. He declared that they were delaying," for profit to themselves, the shipment of coal from tho Turkish mines on the Black sea coast to Constantinople, where a fuel shortage is threatened. '"Secure proofs,' said the lief r to the throne, "and I myself will guarnntee the support of the sultan and the punishment of the miscreants. Strike hard and quickly. Such criminals may ruin the I country in a critical moment." |