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Show I NEXT WAR IS IN SIGHT. When the Greeks were defeated and driven to Smyrna in a disorderly retreat, the Turks possessed themselves them-selves of 5U00 machine puns and 1000 modern field guns, with enough ammunition am-munition to carry on an intensive campaign for months. Equipped with this material, Muslapha Kemal is said to be prepared to enter the neutral zone on the south fide of the Dardanelles Darda-nelles where the British arc entrench-in? entrench-in? No countrj is so uneasy over the threat of the Kemalists as Great Britain Brit-ain for, if the Turks make the at- I tempt, British trops will bo forced to race them or withdraw from the scene. The latter course would be a blow to British prestige and to resist Ifl to invite a calamity as the Turks have a strong army, estimated at 300,-U00. 300,-U00. Great Britain, in ordinary time--, would be ready to make the required sacrifice but, coming out of a war w hich took hundn ds of thousands of ihe young men and almost bankrupted the empire, the statesmen of Great Britain arc slow to act in any aggressive aggres-sive way while there is a hope of avoiding aconflict. Even though sue cessful, Lloyd George's government. In 1 order to keep back the Turk, would be compelled to send all available J military forces at tremendous expense to the distant waters of the Hnrdu-1 nelles. Only the British fleet would be equal to the task of preventing a j crossing of the straits, and the jhlpfl might be endangered, ll the Turks I;.hould be able to place heavy gum within range. Land batteries, well concealed, have a big advantage over, warships. |