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Show ,f I 'FIK 1TI0KTS I J TO OPPOSE ALLIES it ': Leader Skilfully Promoting '& ? ' Oppos'1011 to Foreign Inter-la Inter-la ference Tribes Aligned ,g "ti ' f CONSTANTINOPLE. March 10 - i leaders of the Turkish nationality 'tj from Azerbaijan to Palestine seem 10 1 I"1 be co-operating in a movement to op- tajji ! pose allied proposals for a peace un- f t favorable to Turkey. Men closely as- ? f fochued with .Mutapha Kemal, leader ill f of the nationalists, have been skillful i f, : y promoting opposition to all foreign & ' interference, it is asserted, and the M " f Arabs, Kurds and other tribes are said tjSH lo be aliened with forces planning 10 M h t checkmate any movement on the part S r, of the. entente looking to the partition- fll I Tho whole movement seems to be Hfl m 1 political rather than religious. WhcUi- jg ? 4 cr Bolshevism enters Into the situation' I ha5 not as yet developed. ?j j 2 Turkish newspapers frankly say the L ? allies cannot muster sufficient Tfl 5 ? strength to force an unacceptable j i ' pence upon the country. They point i, to Captain Gabrielo d'Annunzio's defl- M i i ance and otlier instances in which the Dm 5 f, allies have been powerless to enforce w orders. ft h With the exception of the Marash In- TM ? cldent, there have been no massacres of Christians, although there are large H number? of Armenians and Greeks at, 5 the ritcrcy of the Turks in Asia Minor.; B I ' These people are living In terror lest1 M Ihey be attacked when the peace: B terms are made known. j I French detachments are reported to W be meeting stubborn resistance inj J I their effort to occupy districts north- I east of Aloppo, where the British i L' troops were formerly stationed. j I Americans in Asia Minor have been. W 1 requested to remain absolutely .neu-j to tral in the event of disorders ih'dis-j $'J lc trlcts occupied by foreign armies. M ku Inn |