Nov. 7.
MostapHa Kea and his followers have not been long in revealing themselves in their true colours, They have reduced the Caliphate, the spiritual head-hip of all the Moslem world, to mere puppet, whose strings fare to be kept for ever in the hands of their National Assembly; they are suspected of building up an arty in Thrace in defiance of their pledges; they have again passed a resolution repudiating all treaties and conventions concluded since March 16, 1920, and although this is denied in a message from Paris to-day, such denial cannot but be looked on with suspicion; finally, they have demanded the immediate evacuation by the Allies of Constantinople. This, in less than a month since the signing of the Mudania agreement is good going. But it is a thing to be thankful for. The Lausanne Conference, which is to settle up all the affairs of the Near East, does not meet until the 18th instant, so that there is still time for the Allies to close up their ranks and "deprive the Turk of the agreeable pastime of profiting by the dissensions of his opponents. Trance has had a rude awakening. Uneasy regarding the repercussion on French interests of the general anti-foreign policy which the Kemalists are pursuing and the far-reaching demands which they are credited with the intention of presenting at Lausanne,' her confidence in the honeyed words of M. Franklin Bouillon (to which alone according to her newspapers the Mudania agreement was attributable) is not quite what it was and she is reported to be urging Great Britain to join her in strong representations to Angora."'
It may be worth recalling that the Mudania agreement gave back Thrace to the Turks as far as the Maritza, which means their also getting back Adrianople; undertook that the Greeks should evacuate Thrace in fifteen days and that it should then be put under Turkish gendstmerie, the
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