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Show ARMED TURKS ENTER EUROPE. Though tho news dispatches place much emphasis on tho Turks having lidded in the Mudanla conference, a careful reading of the protocol will disclose that the Kemalists obtained ;:ll they dpnmnded except the control of the ueutrnl zone along the strait--. Tho Turk.s once moro march into Europe as a governing, armed body They regain Adrlanople and the easl-. easl-. rn part of Thrace. They are to be'as well entrenched on the peninsula as they were at the close of the war But the Turks yield to the allied demand that the Dardanelles be neutralized. neu-tralized. This is a British advantage, tO which the French have absented. When General Harlngton's troops arrived In Constantinople and were sent out to tho neutral gone, they were accompanied by a mandate, Informing In-forming the Kemalists that they would bo prevented from approaching Con-- Con-- antinoplc and they would be restrict . .1 to Asia Minor, but when the Turks grfrw bold, being flushed with victor)', the British continued to issue ultimatums ultima-tums until they saw the danger of a j clash, when France and Italy were called on to prevont a serious turn of affairs. It was most fortunate for i l.loyd George and his government that tho extreme embarrassment of a de- j feat at the hands of the Turks was j prevented by diplomacy. Great Britain could wipe the Turks Off the face of tho earth, it Great i Britain was resolved to go to war. but I the people of England are determined j io have no more bloodshed simph to j suBtain the pride of Lloyd George and j liis outmaneuvered statesmen, and i hey would have opposed preparations, i including contributions in men, nec- j essary to the whipping back of Mus-tapha Mus-tapha Kemal Pasha and his well armed soldiers, i Great Britain has sulfored in pre- " ligc by the occurrences in Asia Miner. Furthermore her protege, Greece. has been humiliated beyond measure and almost destroyed |