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Show ILLICIT ARMS TRADEGRDWING NEW YORK, April 21. Mustapha Kernel Pasha's Turkish Nationalist army, which has been a disturbing factor in the efforts of tho allies to solve the Turkish peace problem, is being regularly supplied with arms and ammunition from Constantinople through Trebizond, a Black Sea port, according to information received here from J. P. Ryan, of Muncie, Ind., a Near- East Relief worker in that district. "Arms are smuggled in regularly, and with almost no attempt at concealment," con-cealment," writes Mr. Ryan. "A Turkish Turk-ish schooner makes a trip every few days, from Constantinople, and anchors an-chors right here In Trebizond. The cargo is discharged at night, and loaded load-ed into Turkish army wagons, that you can see almost any night following follow-ing tho same road out of town that the lines of Greek refugees were driven driv-en to their death in 1915 to 1916. They pass right by the Near East Relier orphanage on their way to tho interior." inte-rior." "I have no way of being certain where they go, but most probably, to Erzingan and Slvas, where Mustapha Kernel, in spite of the French Mission, is very strong There is a British control officer here of course, but he would not believe that arraB were being shipped into the country until he" happened to be out here one night, and I showed him the wagons passing. He has stopped a few of them, but the smuggling still goes on, Just the same. "The Turks realize that most of the lnterland ot this country, if not Trebizond Tre-bizond Itself, is bound "to go to Armenia, Ar-menia, sooner or later; and they are preparing to resist Armenian rule, and to try to disoredit the Armenian government gov-ernment by inspiring disorder just as soon as the Armenians take charge. "It is a pity that Admiral Bristol and the American navy- are not charged with the surveillance of this whole coaBt, from Batum to Beyrouth. The trouble with France and England is that the Mohammedans have them bluffed, on account of their Mohammedan Mohamme-dan colonies, and the Turks are put-ling put-ling it over on them right along. The only nation tho Turks respect is the U. A." |