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Show BRITISH TROOPS TO LEAVE TURKEY i ENGLISH SOLDIERS HAVE BEEN A POWER FOR GOOD AMONG MOSLEMS British Army Making Preparations For Removal of of General Har-ington Har-ington and His Troops Statlorved in Turkey Constantinople With the coming of peace at Lausanne, preparations are being made by the British army to evacuate the territory which they bave held since the armistice. There will be genuine regret among the Christian races here, and no little sorrow among the educated class of Turks, when General Harrington and his 12,000 soldiers bid farewell to the Golden Horn. For whatever uneasiness un-easiness their preserce gave to the new regime at Angora, their occupation occupa-tion of the capital and Straits has been a power for good. Indeed, with the small French and Italian garrisons and the Yankee bluejackets from the American destroyers de-stroyers in the Bosphorus, the British soldiers have been the main source of security, and order throughout the large area menaced by the Turks. Time and time again at Chanak in Gallipoli, at Constantinopel and in Thrace, their patience has been tried by the Turk, but they have kept th9ir rifles muzzled, their bayonets bayo-nets reversed and their tempers in leash. General Sir Charles Harrington, the patient and tactful commander-in-chief of the allied forces here, has addressed a typical message of commendation com-mendation and of caution to his of- |