Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 287, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 December 1920 — TURKS DISLIKE YANKS [ARTICLE]

TURKS DISLIKE YANKS

Increasing Hostility Toward Americans Noted. Nationalist* Refuse Americans Par* mission to Chrry on Relief Work and Bar "Old Glory." Constantinople, Dec, 2.—lncreasing hostility toward Americans and American relief interests being shown by the Turkish nationalists, says a letter from Henry Riggs, director for the *Near East Relief at Kharput He asserts the nationalists still refuse the Americans permission to proceed to various places to carry on Hieir work and forbid the American flag to be flown from American buildings and automobiles. After searching trucks, arriving and departing, writes Mr. Riggs, adherents of Mustapha Kemal confiscated part of the food supplies Intended for Armenian orphanages. He charges also that Armenian children have been expelled from orphanages and the building converted Into' Turkish schools.

An eye-witness survivor from Hadjln, Asia Minor, describing the Turkish bombardment of that place, says It set fire to the town, and the 365 who escaped stumbled over the bodies of the defenders- through blazing streets. — During the last dayfe of the siege the inhabitants ate donkeys and dogs, finally cats, rats and mice. When the refugees arrived at Adana the French took charge of them. An official mission from Porte, under Izzet Pasha, minister of interior in the/Turkish cabinet, which is to attempt to negotiate an agreement with Mustapha Kemal Pasha, the nationalist leader, will qot leave for Angora until the results of the premier’s conference at London are known. The negotiations also will depend on whether the allies consent to the nationalist demand that the Greeks leave Smyrna. Unless Izzet Pasha succeeds in obtaining this consent, it Is considered doubtful here whether Kemal will even talk. There is some improvement in the condition of the Russian refugees from Crimea. Most of them have been sent to carilps oq the Island of Bemnos and to Gallipoli, and Thrace. Paris, Dec. 2. —The peace terms offered the republic of Armenia by Mustapha Kemal Pasha, Turkish nationalist leader, were announced by the French foreign office. The terms are: First, Armenia shall renounce its benefits under the Sevres treaty; second, Armenia shall adopt a friendly policy toward Turkey, and, third, Turks living within the republic of Armenia shall receive full protection.