6 MARCH 1920, Page 2

Encouraged by Mr. Lloyd George's surrender to the Turco- piffles,

the Turks have lost no time in proceeding with the extermination of the Armenian remnant in Cilicia. A weak French garrison was forced to evacuate Marash on February 10th, and the Armenian inhabitants were then massacred in the usual way. Mustapha Kemal, who directs the operation, is officially called an " insurgent leader," but he is in fact the leader of the Young Turk Party, which controls the present Turkish Ministry. He argues, no doubt, that if the Turks, after massa- cring a million Armenians during the war, have been rewarded with Constantinople, they have only to massacre the rest of the Christians in order to recover Smyrna, and perhaps Aleppo and Baghdad, from the indulgent Allies.