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Show TURKISH REDS MAKE THREAT OF HOLY WAR I AMOFOnOll -1 BDLSHEVIK1 116 I TO CONSTANTINOPLE I London Informed That Enemy . of Turks are to be Ousted . from Capital RUSSIAN SOVIETS AND j ESTHONIA AT PEACE H Libraries and Documents of Dorpat University Returned by Lenine Group LONDON, Feb. 4.--A dis-patch dis-patch to the Exchange Tele- jH graph company from Con-stantinople Con-stantinople today says: IH 'The Young Turks red army will in the near fixture reach Constantinople to throw out the Turkish enemies. The Turkish Bolshevik announce that a holy war against Great jH Britain will be undertaken in the spring." REVAL, Tuesday, Feb. 3, Eslhonia ' and the soviet government ,o'f Russia haYe agiecLn: the peace?tf catjc' qgn-c-d by their respective delegates to' re-spect re-spect the principles laid down by tho powers in regard to the Gulf of Fin-land. Fin-land. Only troops of Esthonia and tho 'soviet government, or their allies, will i be permitted on the territory of either JM .Russia abandons all claims to for-mer for-mer Russian government property in Esthonia, and returns to Esthonia all property removed to Russia during- lfl the war, including the libraries and VM archives of Dorpat university. A spe-cial spe-cial commission will begin the com-mercial com-mercial and diplomatic relations sub-sisting sub-sisting between the two signatories. Independence Granted. The Russo-Esthonian peace treaty provides full recognition of Esthon-ia's Esthon-ia's independence. The soviet govern-ment govern-ment renounces all sovereignty over Esthonia and in the event that Esthon- ia's neutrality is recognized interna-tionally, interna-tionally, the soviet government is bound to participate in tho m.iinte-nance m.iinte-nance of that neutrality. Both parties to the treaty renounco claim to compensation for war expend-itures. expend-itures. The treaty provides that prls- 'oners will be repatriated shortly by both parties to the compact. Russia lis to pay Esthonin'15,000,000 rubles in I gold. There are to be no customs or transit charges to be fixed on gboda by either country. Under the treaty Esthonia is given the privileges to construct a railway to Moscow from the Esthoninn frontier and permission to use 2,500,000 acres of wood land. The soviet government is accorded the right of deriving elec- j tricity from the rapids of the Narova First Step Counts. COPENHAGEN, Feb. 4. "The first step counts," said Maxim Litvinoff, Bolshevik representative in an inter-view inter-view with tho Social Dernokrnten. "Esthonia Is the first country at peaco with soviet Russia and this is of great importance. Other border states will probably, have to follow suit, though j the entente and Polish reactionaries are spreading alarms with the view 'of impressing Poland that she is on , the verge of being invaded by soviet I "Having no official Information re-jspecling re-jspecling the entente's proposal of deal-Ing deal-Ing with Russia through the co-opera- tive, societies, we have at presenr no i official attitude." WASHINGTON, Feb. 4. Danger of an attack on Constantinople by the young Turks' red army, as reported in jH dispatches today from London, is not regarded as serious by army officers here. The red army is supposed to refer to the nationalist arniy, which is practically entirely dependent on the orders of Mouslapha Kernel. Its exact strength is not known here. There are British and French troops in the vicinity of Constantinople and Greek forces arc In Smyfna. oo |