17 APRIL 1920, Page 2

The French-troops in_ Cilicia last week. succeeded in relieving_ Aintab,

after a severe action in which the Turkish besieging army is said to have lost a thousand killed. The Armenian Archbishop of Smyrna states, however, that the other Armenian communities remain in the gravest danger from Mustapha Kemal's forces. Under Allied pressure the Sultan hasappointed a new Ministry, which has formally denounced Mustapha Kemal as a rebel But only a very credulous Turcophile would suppose that this paper threat will save a single Armenian life from the butchers. Even the little State-of Erivan, in what was Russian Armenia, now fin& itself menaced with destruction by the neighbouring Turks and Tartars. Yet we are asked by Mr. Montagu and his Indian friends to maintain the rule of the brutal-Turk even in Europe.