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Show TURKEY PROTESTS AGAINST FLAN TO SPLIT UP EMPIRE CONSTANTINOPLE, Wednesday, Wed-nesday, Jan. 14. Protests against tfre reported intention of the peace conference to dismember dis-member the Turkish empire and to internationalize, this city I were voiced at a great mass meeting here today. Resolutions were adopted de- j claring Constantinople should be maintaincd'as the capital of i Turkey, demanding the evacuation evacua-tion of Smyrna and adjacent regions by the Greeks; asking for an immediate conclusion of ; peace; asserting the integral j sovereignty of the Turkish na- i tion should be maintained over 't territories in which the major- l ity of the inhabitants are Turks and giving assurance that the rights and interests of i Christian or Turkish minorities j would be safeg-uarded. The ! resolutions will be sent to' the j entente powers. . - - |