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Show I Nationalists Grow Much Less Friendly Toward Americans Doing Relief Work ARMENIANS REQUEST ALLIED ASSISTANCE "Albanian Insurgents Reported to Have Captured Town CONSTANTINOPLE, June 2S. MustAPha Kemal Pasha, personally is in general command of the military movements against the Groeks. There are many Indications that the, e nationalists aro concentrating south-cast south-cast of. Ismid. preparatory to making' a stand there after getting the Greeks i scattered over long lines of convmunl-pnllnii. H The nationalists are showing a less H friendly attitude toward American rc- H lief workers than formerly. Through the port of Mudania. lying on the &ea H of Marmora southwest of Ismid, the H American commission for relief in th H near east had been able to keep uv H communication with many lnteriar re- H lief stations through cooperation of the nationalists. Since the British H force landed there and has been on- gaged in skirmishes it is clear that H American ships art) less welcome, and H there is clangor that the nationalists .f as 111 close all the Marmora and Black HP sea ports to American ships. H All American women relief workers f have 6fc, Batum ,for Constantinoplo. I WASHINGTON, 'juric 29. The, H American government was' requested H by the Armenian Hadji n relief union H of America; In a memorandum prc- H sentcd today to the state department, H to urge the allied powers, "particularly Bf( France," to send an expeditionary H force to the relief of the Armenians K in the city of Iladjii.i, besieged for four months by Turkish nationalists. HI If, a force 'were despatched at once. B the communication stated the seise HI could bo raised in less than a week. H The memorandum suggested that H American marines cooperate "with a HI view of saving the Christian popula-H popula-H tion from Imminent destruction." H Boundaries Discussed CONSTANTINOPLE, June 29. H Emir Felsal. king of Syria, is visiting H Aleppo, where a conference is reported H to be in progress between representa-H representa-H lives of the Arabs, French and Turk-Hi Turk-Hi Ish nationalists. The settlement of Hi various boundary disputes and arrangements ar-rangements for an armistice are being discussed. Hear From .Missionaries """ y CONSTANTINOPLE, June 29. The -w American missionaries, Paul Nilson j and his wife, who recently were cap-r "1 tured by Turkish bandlt3 near Tarsus. I I Asia Minor, have been lakcA to fcll-lsk, fcll-lsk, according to a message received from Merslna June 2iK The Turkish i general hi charge Is reported to have promised their immediate release. I Kalians Lose City I BELGRADE. June 29. A report 1 that the Albania iv city of Avlona has 1 been captured from the Italians by I Albanian insurgents ha3 been received Ma by the newspaper Prava in u' dispatch from Cskub, southern Serbia, the re-I re-I port adding that the entire Italian garrison was taken with the town. Recognize Albania I ROME, June 29. Premier Glolittl, speaking in the chamber of deputies this afternoon, reiterated his determi- nation to recognize the independence of Albania. A. Socialist resolution de- majuling the withdrawal of Italian troops from Albania territory was re- Sectcd, H British Depart H BATUM, Trans-Caucasia, June 29. . (By the Associated Press) The Brit- iRh mission left Erivan, Armenia June V IT. This move appears to have pro- rluccd a bad effect here, as there is fcj evident danger of Bolshevism. If Americans Wnrneil dune -y. Americans Ameri-cans wjthin the area of renewed fighting fight-ing between BritUsh forces and the Turkish nationalists" have been warned by the American high commissioner at Constantinople to withdraw, in accordance ac-cordance with a suggestion from the British commissioner at Constantinople. Constanti-nople. Limits or Advance SMYRNA, June 2S. Today's official offi-cial Greek communication says: "The extreme limit of the Greek advance ad-vance reaches a Hue passing beyond Soma, Akhlsiar, AK-Sbehr and Kelas. The advance Is stopped while the conquered con-quered positions are being consolidated." PLATFORM ILL BE SBIIIT 0IPJPII1 Plank Will Support Prohibition But Will Oppose "Vexatious "Vexa-tious Interferences'' i i FULL COMMITTEE TO PASS UPON PROPOSITION: Belief Expressed That "'Slightly "'Slight-ly Moist" Resolution Might i Have Chance SAN FRANCISCO, June 30. According Ac-cording to administration chiefs the rub-committee of nine drafting the1 Democratic platform has practically) t agreed on a prohibition plank which 1 Is described as "slightly moist" and as being in "support of the constitutional constitu-tional amendment." but with declarations declara-tions for personal liberty and against "exatious Interferences." ' j A league of nations plank the same' administration chiefs said, has beeni agreed upon "just as Woodrow Wilson wants II, without the dotting of an 'f or the crossing of a 't" As forecast fore-cast it follows almost identically the, lines of the Virginia platform .previously .pre-viously approved by President Wilson. A careful count of the full committee commit-tee and a survey of the convention, these administration chiefs said, made them confident that William J. Bryan could nol( get his prohibition plank into thc'platforui.. The. agreement. was, in "Btich 'form, they said, that it was 'not improbable that their work would be laid before the full committee on resolutions late this afternoon. Not Ready to Report. When the full platform committee reassembled by pre-arrangement at 11 o'clock today Senator Glass reported that the sub-committee was not ready i tq report and a recess was taken until 7 30 o'clock tonight. The sub-committee then again went into session with its members divided in their opinions as to whether it would be possible to report at the hour fixed. At the suggestion of former Governor Gover-nor McCorkle of West Virginia, members mem-bers ot the full committee were invited in-vited to file platform suggestions with! Hie sub-committee, There was no echo in today's meeting, however, of tho objections ob-jections made by Senator Walsh to the sub-committee's plan of going ahead without consulting at length with (he other committee members. League of Nations. The first sugge sted plank handed in i to the sub-conlmittee wfts one by Senator Sena-tor Pomerene of Ohio, regarding the league of nations. It provided for rati-1 ficatlon without "impairing reserva- tions" but added that differences of I opinion on that subject should be so j "harmonized that the treaty may be ratified without unnecessary delay " j In handling the prohibition ciucs- I tion. administration leaders were reported re-ported to be maneuvering to bring be-lore be-lore the convention a plank which could be championed as an "administration "adminis-tration measure." To this end it was planned to include a clause endorsing President Wilson's veto of the Vol-s'tead' Vol-s'tead' act. If this could be accomplished It was believed the administration strength on the convention floor would be more than sufficient to push it through. That a floor fight on prohibition 'could be avoided was believed by ad-j ad-j ministration leaders as well as predcti-i predcti-i ed by the drys, to be impossible. On I a straight wet or dry vote it was generally gen-erally conceded that the majority of 'the delegates would vote dry, but the ) proposed "slightly moist'r plank, backed with a declaration upholding President Wilson, was believed to have bettor lhan a good chance. Little trouble over the administration administra-tion treaty plank was expected In the sub-committee. Its handling was said to be left entirely to Secretary Colby for advocacy in the full committee ! tonight and also in tho convention. Urynn To Fight SAN PKANCISCO, Juno 30 W. J. Bryan, in a fighting mood, speaking at a breakfast gathering today, expressed ex-pressed his dissatisfaction with the "wet" and "dry" situation before the resolutions committee, said that he expected ex-pected to fight In i-hc convention and "hoped to gain distinction as a reviser re-viser of platforms." "I have no hope of glory as a writer of tho Democratic platform," ho said, "I am a member of tho resolutions committee but not one of the Sacred Nine. But 1 tell you they know now that this question cannot be settled In .'the. committee room. , Minority .Rciort "It takes only one man to bring in a minority report, and thero is that ono man on the resolutions committee. 1 came here as a .delegate from Nebraska Ne-braska to take tlc case before tho thousand other delegates assembled here, and let them answer. "I came here to do what I can for people, not to se.e wjiat. I can goV - . (.C"untinucjclion.page9.).''.i, . I Platform Somewkt Damp Is Opinion (Continued from Pago 1) pcoplo to do for inc. If I win help thin vrorhl to baniah alcoliol and after that to banish war, and c J can do that, no office, no presidency, can offer the honors that will be mine." "The Bible says that 'One., with (3od, shnll chase a thousand'." Mr. Bryan said, "and that's about the number num-ber I have to fight. It says that "Two shall put ten thousand to flight." and I am looking for the other man." rn. |