Show TURKS PR PROPOSE POS I NO MASSACRES GAES Reports Said to toDy Have Purpose Dy FERID BEY Plenipotentiary to the French government government govern govern- ment from the Turkish Nationalist government V with which France re recently recently recently re- re made peace Written for Universal Service P PARIS Jan 14 British H.-British British propaganda reports spread broadcast in the United States that the evacuation of SIU bythe bythe by bythe the French will mean wholesale massacres massacres massacres mas mas- of ot Christians and Armenians are meant to prepare the ground forthe for forthe forthe the seizure of Silicia by Britain As the official representative of ot the Angora government which with the exception of at the sham Turkish Anglo-Turkish government of the sultan at Constant Constantinople Constan Constan- ConstantinOple governs Turkey I can assure t on fl my fly solemn word of ot honor that no massacres are contemplated and that none will tak take taki place This England knows as well as we do But Dut she has sent warships to the coast ready to land troops as soon as the last French soldiers have departed S SAny Any such landing by the British w Will Willbe Willbe ll be resisted by the Turkish army until the tho last gasp At Adana where British propaganda says sas massacres are m-e preparing there Isa Isa is isa a large minority of Christians Some Som are Greeks born In Turkey some Rome are Armenians for tor long residents in Adana and others are Greeks and Armenians Armenians Armenians Ar Ar- but recently arrived who spend their time agitating and conspiring conspiring con con- against the Turks and the French These latter hitter will be 00 given the choice of returning to their native countries or living under a a. strict surveillance which will result In prison if they continue continue con con- continue their conspiracies I These are the sole m measures en en- en Peaceable Christians who donot donot do donot not meddle In politics to the extent of ot i conspiring against the government I will be allowed to live In peace ace They will v-il live on oh absolute terms of equality both as regards taxation and suffrage with the native naUvo Turks I |