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Show CURRENT EVENTS Simply Told For Boys nnd f.lrly. OUTLOOK IN LAST Is BETTER The world's eyes nrc still fixed on th Near East. This is not a sharply defined region. It means, generally, southeastern Europe, Eu-rope, thai Is, the Balkans! and south-western south-western Asia, particularly Asia Minor, j ; It is here that fighting between Tut-key Tut-key ;md Greece developed u situation! I threatening a big war with countries; much more Important than these two in olvcd. i During most of last week, an out- I break of hostilities smed likely from i day to day. But at tho last moment, the sky again cleared. Now It may fairly be hoped that a peaceful settlement set-tlement will be reached. I You win remember that, r week ago xrt loft liustapha Kemal Pasha the Turkish leader. In possession of tho 'Asia Minor coast. He frail asking th j a I lies to gtc him Thrace, as far as the Marltia river, together with the Itles of Constantinople and Adrlano- ple, And you will remember that France and Italy scorn : J o tc In favor "t -jlng the Turks what they v. anted, but 1 that England was not so The British said to the Turks: "Wo shall not allow you to pass 1 through tho neutral zone. ' The neutral zone means a strip of land along the Htrolt-i leading to -'mi past Constantinople. Th-ae straits are srj important to world trd and 'cause of this they were oi ed 110 l 'the government of all the allied nations na-tions together, when tho war ended. In order to get Into Thrace tho country ho claims Mustapha Kernal I Pasha must cross tho straits, and henco move through the neutral zone Great Britain at once began sending I large numbers of soldiers a.nd battle-1 battle-1 ships to the straits. The soldiers began be-gan digging trenches and bull dine f,,r-tlflcatlons f,,r-tlflcatlons at Chanak and on the pen-lnouia pen-lnouia of Ismld. The battleships pointed point-ed their cannon toward the land where the Turks were. Answering this move. Kemal Pasha began to move his sol-Idlers sol-Idlers toward lht neutral zone. Presently the two forces were face to face and It was greatly feared a battle bat-tle would start be.trt-en them. But toward the end of the week, a 1 apresentatl e from Prance, who had ,been conferring with Kerna!. appeared to have prevailed on the Turkish gen-ei-al to be patient. Kemal agreed to a meeting with the I representatives of all the allies and began be-gan some withdrawals of his troops ; from the places Where the danger of trouble was greatest. The meeting probably will take plat e October lf. and It Is hoped an agreement will be reached Th risk of war Is not over, (but the outlook for peace Is much Improved. TWO KlM.s ABDK l l- The trouble in Asia Minor has led 'to trouble elsewhere. A revolution haa taken plai e In .Greece. King Constantino, ruler of 'that country, has been forced to abdicate abdi-cate 'resign Prince George, his son, ha -t taken his plac Tho revolution started after the Greeks had suffered their crushing de-ifcal de-ifcal at the hands of t )i Turks in Asia 'Minor Officers and soldiers were an-jffrj an-jffrj because the Greek army hud been jbeaten. They blamed King Oonttan-,tlne. Oonttan-,tlne. So thev decided to set up a new I government 'fh king heeded their I dmands. The new Greek kovernrnent says it 'will make every effort to keep Thrace. ; Its province, out of the hands ol 1 be Turks who are trying lo take it away from them. It is 6aid Mohammed VI, the .sultan of Turkey, has abdicated, too Tills Irpor does not come from the Turk- llsh government, but It elmost ccrtain-ly ccrtain-ly is true I Kemal. It appears, thought that Mo-' Mo-' hammed was too muf h under the In-' Ifluencc of the allies for Turkey's good I jand his victors or the Greeks made ' Komal a bigger man than the sultan 1 ' himself. Abdul Mdjld. Mohammed's cou.sln, ; is understood lo have become sultan BANDIT ENDS HIS CAREER Ton have Vejtd with delight, the story of the adventure of Bobin Hood, the outlaw. Now you will be interested inter-ested In reading that a modern and real Robin Hood has just ended hia career. His name i Ralsull. He is a famous bandit who for years has operated in Morrocco. a counti-y In North Africa Many of his traits are similar to those 1 of Robin Hood. Ralsull has just surrendered to the Spanish government In Morocco and uays that he will be a law-abiding citizen cit-izen from now on Tho Moroccan bandit became fim-OUl fim-OUl when he kidnaped Sir Harry IfO-Lean, IfO-Lean, a British officer, and demanded S ransom of $200 000. Tho British government threatened and tried in vain to effect his release. Even Great Britain could not reach Ralsull In his desert and mountain haunts. Klnallv 100,00 was paid and McLean was freed. Later Ralsull kidnaped Ian H. Per-dtcarls. Per-dtcarls. on American cltizeo. breaking' In at a foshionable banquet and car- 'rylng him away Rolsu'l asked JTO,- 0 00 ransom. Theodore Roosvelt. then president, sent gunboats to Morocco. The sultan. as the ruler of Morocco Is called, fear-ied fear-ied an Invasion of his country l. th I Americans So he payed the ransom (out of lils own pocket and Perdlc3rl was allowed to go home Now Ralsull after a whole lifetime las a bandit, has decided it la bettt 1 to , be an honest man. |