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Show 00 WAR CLOUDS GROWING. Greatly disturbed are the British statesmen over developments In Asia Minor. The Kemalists have been notified no-tified by the British they must not invade in-vade the neutral zones or attempt to crosa the Dardanelles and Mustapha Kemal has answered he will regard no restrictions short of a full recognition of Turkish nationalism Kemal has a powerful, well disciplined discip-lined army equipped with the latest French artillery, the most modem rapid-fire guns, and the newest model of automatic rifles similar to the Tifios brought out by John M. Browning Brown-ing near the close of the European war. With a force large enough to require Hl twenty divisions ot allied troops to B keep them back should they decide B to go forward, the Turks are a most formidable body of fighters. Great Britain at present is in no H condition to throw 300,000 soldiers into the Near East for the purpose of stopping the Turk, id ye"t. if Kemal's army is not halted at the straits, the conflict will be carried to Thraco and Oreece will be In dunger of being made a province of Turkey. There are all kinds of alarming possibilities pos-sibilities In connection with the on-, ward march of the Turkish national lsts Should Great Britain attempt to control the Dardanelles and be defeated de-feated In the first clashes and there is a prospect of defeat the whole Mo-hammedan Mo-hammedan world would be stimulated to fight and throw off all restraints Then the British would hare India and Egypt to deal with The small war cloud ot a month ago, which cast shadows in a small area lu Asia Minor has grown in size ULdl all Europe sees dark lines |