REBEL LEADER'S TIRADE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LVII, Issue 17460, 3 May 1920, Page 5

REBEL LEADER'S TIRADE.

BRITAIN THE CULPRIT. United Service. LONDON, April 30. An Evening News correspondent had an interview with Mustapha Kemal, the Turkish rebel leader, at Angora. Mustapha Kemal asserted that England was responsible for the occupation of Constantinople, the destruction of Turkey, and the crushing of Islam. He denied that his troops were responsible for themassacres of Armenians, which he attributed to brigands. He blamed England for arming the Armenians. He admitted he had to get rid of some whom he had found armed. He added: " I will punish England. She does not know what she is up against. It is in my power to stir up revolution in the English colonies. It is no good representing us as rebels and adventurers; we represent the real Turkey to-day. All that is happening is the fault of the Allies." TREBIZOND DISMANTLED. A. and N.Z. LONDON. April 30. Landing parties from the Revenge and Ramillies dismantled the fortifications at Trebizond, a Turkish port on the Black Sea coast, under the terms of the armistice.

THE ARMENIAN PROBLEM. A. and N.Z. LONDON, April 30. Mr. Lloyd George, in his review of the San Remo Conference in the House of Commons, emphasised that in view of their responsibilities none of the Allies wag able to undertake the mandate over Armenia, which would involve a very strong military force, therefore the Allies appealed to the United States to undertake this task. If the United States refused the Allies might ask Mr. Wilson to arbitrate in regard to the boundaries of Armenia.