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Show in BIDS j DEFIANCE TOP Haughtily Declares He jj Will Drive Greeks ! Out of Smyrna and ! Retake Turk Capital By-CBWARO--aUNC t CopTiKht. 1t!l. by United Preaa.) ! Copy rlsh ted throughout Kurope by fretted Telegraph) 1 IReeabllnf and republication pro- ' hlblted.) I (Copyrighted In Canada ) ! DERLIN, Feb. 14. American D mediation between Greece nd the Turkish nationalists will je welcomed, Mustapha Kemal, eajer ef tho nattoiisliHts. tlw tared in hi ftnt public statement, nade to the United Prena. The statement waa received here to- ay, bavin been brought by a courier rom the headquarter of the vie tortus tort-us Turkish general at Angora, Asia dTlnor, from which point he controls be activities of his troops. Intervention by President Wilson In rmen1a la unnecessary, Kemal said, cause peace has already been eateb-tshed eateb-tshed there. Defying the allies, Kemal rejects the ' reaty of 8evres and demands that Constantinople be left under control of ha Turks. He submits th following is his terms of peace: TERMS OF PEACE. 1. Nullification ef the treaty ef tevres. 2. Constantinople must remain u-ilee u-ilee Turkish sovereignty, her security be guaranteed by the allied nations. 3. Freedom ef navigation through he Dardanelles, under regulations laid Uwn, net by England, but by the Hack sea sovereign states, : 1 4. Renunoistien by Greece ef her i mperialistie aims. Kemal made a long and bitter attack n Great Britain. Franco and Orece. "By their heroic resistance," he said. The Turkish peoplo show they are -onscious of their rights and duties. Pho treaty of Hevres banishes our pott po-tt ical. Jurisdictional, economic and 'Inancial independence deprive us of he right to live. Therefore, it is non-rx non-rx latent for us, Wa are fighting In defense of our national existence. We leave It to the stvtllsed world to Judge the Justness ud legitimacy of our course. SMYRNA AND THRACE. "For over a thousand years Smyrna assirned to the Greeks under the 4evrs treaty) was a Turkish town. Greece possesses no rights there what-ver. what-ver. Extermination of the Turks here Is a continuation of the policy tt extermination applied by the Greeks a Theeaaly. Crete and Macedonia. We ura abeolutely certain of chasing these tandtts from our soil shortly. But we tould rather see the enemy recognise ur rights and evacuate the country. Jnder these sole conditions would we indertake peace negotiations. We rould prefer that these negotiations be lirectly with Greece, but we would veleome the beneTolent and humanl-arlan humanl-arlan mediation of the United Btatea "Thrace, like. Symma, ia Inhabited y a Turkish majority and la an In-egral In-egral part of our country. It is the eat of our ancient capital, Adfianople. V shall drive the Invader out. In restern Thrace we would accept a lebisclte.' |