Show IU TURKS SHOW HOW r T To if ENTENTE Advices From Moslem Capital 3 Indicate That Forces Forces Are Gathering J t f to t S Save ve the Nation CONSTANTINOPLE Rd STA March MarchO O 19 Leaders Leaders of the Turkish Rationalists Nationalists from Azerbaijan to Palestine P. P lestine seem to be cooperating in a movement to oppose allied proposals for a 3 peace unfavorable to Turkey Men closely associated with Mustapha Kemal leader of the nationalists nation nation- have haYe b been en skill skillfully tully promoting opposition to all ll foreign Interference Js ks asserted and the Arabs Kurds and other ther tribes are said to be aligned th ih forces planning to checkmate any m movement ement on the part of the he entente l looking king to to the partitioning of ot I the country n fy The whole hole movement seems to Be te J political rather than religious into the situation Bolshevism er enters i s not as yet et developed OF PRESS newspapers frankly say the Sillies iUleS cannot muster sufficient Strength to force an unacceptable peace the country They point to Captain Cap Cap- tain f ln Gabriele dAnnunzio's defiance Md d other Instances in which the allies have e been powerless to enforce orders With the exception of ot the Marash larash J ident there have been no massas massa- massa 5 ws es s of ot Christians there are large numbers of ot Armenians and Feeks at the mercy of ot the Turks in J Minor These people are living in terror Jest they be attacked when the peace terms are made known detachments are reported to 10 tois is tt meeting stubborn resistance in their effort to occupy districts northeast of eppo where when British troops were for- for rb stationed Americans in Asia Minor have been beenu Requested u sted to remain absolutely neutral u the event of disorders in districts occupied by foreign armies BRITISH DEPORTATIONS f Halide Edib the most prominent woman w man leader among the nationalists d Bey Dey deputy for Sims and ana mouthpiece of ot Mustapha Kemal in th the Cara Bey and several other members of the chamber of ot dep- dep tes have been deported presumably to ta Malta lalta by the British They w were were re placed ced on board the cruiser T Thursday shortly before the warship sailed When the Greeks landed at Smyrna an anh ana some Turks were killed Halide Edib cast aside all traditions of ot TurkIsh Turkish Turk Turk- ish women She organized and addressed addressed addressed ad ad- dressed mass meetings and so in inflamed inflamed inflamed in- in flamed the Turks that the allied high commissioners forbade further meet- meet Ings She She has has often otten been described In Inthe Inthe inthe the British Britis press as a firebrand and anda a a. dangerous agitator She was graduated from the American Amerl Amerlean Amer Amer- l lean ican An Womans Woman's college here and won r. r recognition as a a. novelist and poet L LONDON LONDON CONFIRMATION LONDON ONDON March 19 Turkish Turkish n na nationalist nationalist na- na 1 tl op opposition n to the allies ames is spreading throughout Asia Minor accOrding ac ac- c cOrding to reports from Crom Constantinople toda today Bands of Turkish nationalist tr troops ops cut telegraph wires leading fr from m Constantinople The rhe war office confirms that the British h and other allied troops now oc occupying oc- oc C Constantinople have arrested thirty Turkish military and political l leaders ders Among the prisoners are Essad Pasha one of ot the main chiefs dUets of ot the nationalist party part and Mohammed Pasha former Turkish war minister The TIIe correspondent of ot the Post re reports reports reports re- re ports th that t the Turkish government is isOn ison on on- the point of falling as a result ot of allied of ot Constantinople The Turks became panic stricken when the allied troops marched into the city and organized r resistance was quickly broken he said |