Word: anatolia
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Colonel K. E. Clayton-Kennedy, one-fifth owner of the Chester Concession for the interior development of Turkey, recently arrived in Paris from Anatolia, main Turkish province in Asia Minor. He denied rumors that the Turkish Government had offered the Concession to the German Stinnes over the heads of the Ottoman-American Development Co., the concern which holds the Chester Concession. He stated, as proof to the contrary, that materials were in the course of shipment to Turkey; that engineers on the spot " were working under extra pressure to make up for the regrettable delays arising from the internal controversies...
...diet of bread, stew, and cocoa varied by some fresh vegetables, and these persons will save the difference between this frugal fare and the customary American Sunday dinner in order to give it to the Near East Relief for the benefit of the starving children of Armenia and Anatolia...
...Morgenthan, whose latest book "All in a Life-time" was one of the outstanding biographies of last season, has sailed for Greece on an important unofficial diplomatic mission. He is to take the active chairmanship of the commission under the League of Nations for the settlement of refugees from Anatolia in Western Thrace and Macedonia. 600,000 of these exiles are now given shelter by the Greek government which has deeded more than a million acres of vacant lands to their use. The Greeks have undertaken to raise among themselves 1,000,000 Pounds and the British have made...
...terms of the Sevres Treaty, which Turkey signed but would not ratify, dispossessed Turkey of all her non-Ottoman territories, divided the provinces of Anatolia and Kurdistan into spheres of influence for the benefit of the Allies, and placed Turkey-in-Europe, ending at the Tehatalja line, under an internation al regime. Turkey was merely a geographical expression...
...astute and capable soldier. The tide of this War was at first against the Turks, and the Allies were pleased. Early in 1922, however, it became clear that the Turks were winning, and when on Sept. 9, 1922, the Greek Army had been chased ignominiously from Anatolia, the Allied house of cards collapsed...