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Show CURRENT EVENTS I A Simplified Discussion of Topics of Interest for School jSS Children and Busy Adults. Today's Subjects: 1 Turk- wf ish Empire's Revival; 2 Amundsen's Dash for Pole; 3 The "5-15-3 Treaty." fc 4 TURKISH EMPIRE'S REVIVAL I The Turkish empire. which xvasi broken up during the world war, is j coming back to life again But it will not be nearly as powerful as It was before It Joined Germany in the war. The allies will give Constantinople, capital of the empire back to Turkey I They also will alloxv Turkey to rule I Armenia, Angora, Anatolia and part of Thrace. But tho people of Armenia who are not on gipod terms with the Turks xvill b'e protected by the league of nations. Groat Britain will keen on ruling Mesopotamia, formerly a part of the i Turkish empire, xvhere some think the j Garden of Eden, mentioned in the Bl-J ble. xvas located. And the allies will keep the Gall-j ooli peninsula, a part of Turkey. This' peninsula is important because it con-j trols trade routes Since the war ended Turkey ha-s ind very little power. The allies sent sol-) diers to Constantinople to rule that: city The sultan, as the Turkish ruler, ll called, had no authority at all. j At the same time. Mustapha K- Dial Pasha. Turkish officer and politician. i set up a government of his own in An-1 gora, Asia Minor, lie has been xvuging xvar with Greece. The allies have asked Kcmal and the Greek gox-ernment to stop this xvar by. j signing an armistice. Why have the allies brought Turkey Tur-key back to life? Probably because, their Mohammedan subJecLs in India! and African countries demand it. Mohammedans look on Conatantl-I nople as a holy city and consider the jsultun as the head ol their religion. ' 'I'h. Turks have ruled oust . nliiiopb since 11511 when they took it from the Greek or Byzantine empire Tho denture of Constantinople xxas jone of tho things that led to the dis-i COVCry of America by Columbus in :14l'." The Turks had cut off trade routes to the east and western Euro pean nations believed they could find 'new ones lv voyaging westward. I DASH I . R Pi H I IN i'l N I Roald Amundsen, the explorer xvho' I discovered tho South Pole, t now in 1 New York planning an expedition to the North Pole. - But he will not undergo the hard-I hard-I ships, cold and hunger he suffered on , other expeditions. That is because he will go to the North Pole by airplane Instead of by the old-fashioned met hod I of ship and dog-sled Amundsen will equip his airplane with ti wireless outfit. With this he xvlll be able to talk dally with people in the Civilised world and tell then of his experiences and discoveries. i Amundsen will start for tho Pole from Seattle. Wash., Juno 1. He ill allow his airplane to drift across the Pole In air currents 1 le hopes to loam more of the north ern country. Its lands and xvoters, its ..uimals and air currents than has BVei been known before. Amundsen xxas born at Borje. Nor-way, Nor-way, In 1872. He's been an explorer since he was 26 WAI. TREATS ILMTFIBD The United States senate has ratified tho naval limitation treaty which WAS signed at tho recent conference on limitation lim-itation of arnuuiients in Washington This tr.-.ii aims to cut down the number of battleships owned bx the . .. . . inn Tl.l. It la' thought, will make war less likely and bavo much money. Tho treaty Is called the "B-5-8 treaty" trea-ty" because it provides .In pan shall have three battleships for every five owned fy Great Britain or iim united .States Thus under tho treaty, if the United Statf.s has 20 battleships, Great Brit- ain may likewise hnve 20. but Japan BBH The senate had' to ratify or approve H this treaty before it goes into effect. J The Goxernnunts of the other nations H concerned also must ratify it. The four-power treaty, another trea- H ty signed at the conference on llmi- tatlon ol armaments ilao baa H . ratified by our senate. |