Turks Using Bolsheviki to Cover Murders

“Armenian Massacres, outrages in Egypt, Jewish Murders Traced to Bolshevism”

Washington, Mar. 26.–Belief that pan-Turanism is back of the disorders in Egypt and that the movement is akin to Bolshevism, as expressed today by Miran Sevasly, an expert on affairs of the Near East. Mr. Sevasly conferred today with officials of the state department.

Turkish massacres of Armenians and Greeks, Mr. Sevasly said, were counterparts of the conduct of the Bolshevists in Russia where murder, loot and confiscation are by the order of the government.

The appearance of the Turkish flag in the Egyptian riots, reported today in dispatches to the state department was said by Mr. Sevasly to indicate the influence the pan-Turanians had secured in Egypt. The khedivial court, he said, is composed of Circassians and Turks and not of Egyptians. He asserted that underlying the Bolshevis movement in Egypt was the pan-Turanian