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Show " The com M . r, ,vT!nco held at Mudanla v.i. nc.,tajac i ., , Vre tti-in ramouriagc to "h m withdraw from MX an embarraesinj; position without confessed con-fessed defeat. It becamo evident early in the conflict con-flict that Great Britain hop! to stop the Turks and prevent theru from regaining re-gaining Thrace, but was not prepared to enforce its mandates. When General Gen-eral Harington issued his warning to Mustapha Kernel, that the Turks must not enter the neutral zone or th would be compelled to answer to the power and might of the British cm pire. he knew his forces were not strong enough to command respect, but he put up a strong bluff. When the Turks deed him, he had to fight with defeat facing him or turn to diplomacy di-plomacy to save his face, so lie railed in the French to assint hm out of his difficulties and fortune telj th- French were able to bring abotll an under standing. Had General Hanng.on no oi.'.-avonne oi.'.-avonne of escape he trould hay.e boen forced to battle with the Turk, His fmall army would have been defeated and then England, to recover her prestige, pres-tige, would have been forced to go to war In deadly earnest The English people do not v. ant war and they nave nif.de if eleiir to their statesmen That they are weary of supplying blood anJ ; money to drag diplomat! 0 it ol deep holes The English people aro acting wisely The pride of a few generals sod a number of statesmen may be injured, but the world is better off. instead Of talking war, We should be insisting on peace li ng enough at , . -' to bind thu wounds of the last1 debacle and heal the sores which have festered and slough off the gangrene which has formed |