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Show TURKS HOLDING CRESCENT ALOFT Cross Will Never Be Raised Over Mosques, Declares Speaker at Meeting CONSTANTINOPLE, May 21. "We shall never consent to bo separated from Thrace and Smyrna, with their historical monuments. The cross shall never be raised over our : osquc. We believe in tho Wilsonian principle and are confident that adequate application o thorn will be made eventually," Thus spoke Fatlma HUnem, a woman teacher, who addressed a mass meeting meet-ing heia today in the park adjoining the mosque of St. Sofia. President Sodjar Assimayni, of the Turkish Islamic academy, declared: "We shall never be governed by the cross. The crescent will always remain re-main aloft despite tnc 1 -oken sword. "We can repulse the uolsheviki, but wo hope tho great powers will do us the justice to help us in that fight. e trust that there will be modiflcatonls of the unjust treaty." Resolutions were adopted declaring if r rnVi -rn rn nun that tho annexauun Smyrna by Greece constitutes a violation viola-tion of the principle of President Wil-son Wil-son and that the Independence of Tur-key Tur-key is nullified ty the treaty terms. The resolutions concluded with expressions expres-sions of the firm belief that Europe will realize injustice done Turkoy and grant such modifications that Turkey will not ho made to suffer to a greater degree, than Germany and Austria. Tin meeting was attended by about five thousand Turks. It was the first of a series. Like most other speakers Fatima Hanem advocated the substitution substitu-tion of diplomacy for guns in opposing tho terms of the entente powers. |