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Show TEilSE SITUATION IN UK CAPITAL NATIONALISTS RENEW DEMAND THAT FOREIGN POWERS REMOVE RE-MOVE TROOPS Strained Relations Continue to be Bitter Between Kamalists and Allies; Turkey Watching the Outcome Paris. The troubled state of affairs In Constantinople Thursday may not be getting any worse, but there certainly cer-tainly seems to be no improvement in good feeling between the Kemalists and the allied commissioners. Two IJritish soldiers were assinated Wednesday at Kassispasha, according to the Constantinople correspondent of Petit Parisien. Colonel Charpy, commander of the French troops in the Constantinople area, told the correspondent he considered con-sidered the situation one of the gravest grav-est nature. The allied generals and commissioners have informed Ilal'et Pasha, the governor of Constaniinople, and Ilamid Bey, envoy there of the deep dissatisfaction o the allies over the attitude the Kemalists have taken since they formally took over the civil government. Despite allied protests however, Rafet has maintained all of the measures meas-ures recently taken by the nationalists except the higher customs duties which he imposed on foodstuffs. The attitude of the Kemalists becomes be-comes stiffer every toy and the extremists ex-tremists seem to be in power at Angora. An-gora. An indication of this was the reiteration Wednesday of the demand that the allies evacuate both their military mil-itary and naval forces from Constantinople Constanti-nople and surrounding districts. Ismet Pasha, foreign minister in the Turkish nationalists government, is in Constantinople waiting to receive a decision on the British Application for a postponement of the peace conference confer-ence at Lausanne before proceeding to that city. |