ANGORA GOVERNMENT
KEMAL PASHA’S CLAIMS LIMITING POWERS OF THE SULTAN By Telegraph—Press Aanoclatinn— Copyright Constantinople, December 26. Kemal Pasha,, in the Angora Parliament, claimed that his Government was the Government of Turkey. He intended to return to Constantinople, when the power of the Sultan would -be limited in accordance with the principles of popular government as expressed in the Nationalist Parliament. Tho greater part of his speech was fierce invective against the Sultan for dissolving the Parliament two years ago.' At one point in the speech, deputies shouted: “May Allah take vengeance on the Sultan.” Kemal went on to say that “the Sultan, relying on the Constitution established by a purely absolute regime, threw us on the streets. The Constitution. is obsolete and must be supersed-ed.”—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.
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Dominion, Volume 15, Issue 80, 28 December 1921, Page 5
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128ANGORA GOVERNMENT Dominion, Volume 15, Issue 80, 28 December 1921, Page 5
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