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Show 1M1 BREAKS AGE OLD PRECEDENT OF TUBKEY; DEPORTED CONSTANTINOPLE, .March IS. Halide Edib, the most prominent woman wo-man leader among the Turkish nationalists, nation-alists, and Beuof Bey, deputy for Si-vas. Si-vas. and mouthpieco of Mustapaha Ke-mal Ke-mal in the cities; Cara Vaslf Boy, and jeveral other memoers of the chamber cham-ber of deputies, have been deported, presumably to Malta, by the British. They were placed on board the cruiser cruis-er Hebiacus today shortly before that warship sailed. When the Greeks landed at Smyrna and some Turks were killed, Halide Edib cast aside all traditions of Turkish Turk-ish vomen. She organized and addi ad-di eased- mass meetings and so inflamed in-flamed the Turk's that the allied hjgh commissioners forbade further meetings. meet-ings. She has often been described in the British press as a "firebrand and a langerous agitator." She was graduated from the American Ameri-can Woman's coflege and won recognition recog-nition as a novelist and poet. |