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Show GRAND VIZIER JUSTIFIES WAR Defends Turkish Treatment of Armenians But Admits Deportations De-portations Were Irregular. PROMISES PUNISHMENT Turks Will Oppose No Peace Plan That Is Compatible With Vital Interests. AMSTERDAM, Sept. 28. Turkoy's entry into the war was justified by Ta-I Ta-I laat Bey, the grand vizier in a long speech closing tho congress of the par-ty par-ty of Union and Progress, according to a dispatch from Constantinople. Ho defended the Turkish treatment of tho Armenians but admitted that tho deportations de-portations could not be carried out by regular forces because the gendarmes had been drafted Into the army and order could not be maintained. Irregularities Ir-regularities In connection with the deportations de-portations had been investigated, he said, and the guilty parties had been punshed severely, some with death. Referring to the pope's peace note, Talaat Bey declared that Turkey adhered ad-hered to the principal of arbitration. Regarding disarmament ho said: "Wo shall oppose no solution which is compatible with our vital interest." inter-est." He concluded by saying that no one could say when peace would come but It was obvious that the end was approaching. |