The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-08-09
BRIEF ARMISTICE. GAINED ONLY BY
 HARD BARGAINING
Much Dickering Necessary Before Truce For Few
 Hours is Called

I General Headquarters, GallipoH Pe- ninsula,, Turkey, Aug. -9.-Though the
 British asked for the nine-hour ar i.mistice which took place on May "A, Fin the Ari Burnt theatre of war, they were afterwards inclined to drive a lhard bargain for it, according to Ma lsjor4 Renal adjutant to General Essad I iPacha. commander of the Third Otto lrnan army. Major Renal was entruSt- fed with the negotiations preceding the Ear111istice, and was given carte blanche Iby his superiors after they had de-
 cided what the conditions of the ar l rangement were to be.
 :"The British sent a parliamentary Iinto the lines on May 2nd, said Major IKemal to The Associated Press corre- tspondent. ''The officer came with a iwhite flag and@Il was detailed to as- live grant an ar1nisticev for the purpose Eof burying the dead, many of whom Ehad lainf between the Turkish and EBritish lines for 29 sdays-since' April f23. The stench had become unbear- fable to the British, the officer stated, and a period in which all military op-s I jerations. were to be suspended by both lsides. and in which the bodies might 1 be inferred, seemed very desirable fs # "I transmitted these swishess to my Esuperior, after having made arrange Ennents for another meeting with the parliamentary on another day. was Ltos come to 9 certain spot and all Brit lish troops wereeto be. instructed not to fire upon me. unfortunately, this part Eof5the program was not carried out, | When I, on the following day, came Ito the place which had been selected tfou our meeting was fired upon by lthes British artillery with shrapnel. l lsuppose my coming had mot4ibeen am. Inounced everywheres at least prefer Ito suppose that. yf s. - ,P . 4es There was the usual bhndfolding, land 8 little later I met the. British off,
 cers who were to act for Sir Ian Ham 3ilton I presented our conditions for 4 the armistiee and a discussion of them; Etook place immediately.
 II ssOnly two ,of5sthe conditions are.of .t sufficient. interest ito be referred to here, because the negotiations concern ling them indicate what the British lstate of mind regarding Turkey is. tsatd Major Renal when asked to T speak Of the negotiations.
 iaAs to the practice during ar1nistice
 1.-the terrain between the two hostile Hines was to be divided into two equal parts of a. line of--sentrfes. Over this
 Boundary the dead were to be ex- tk kehanged. .sl that is to say, we would
 bring across this line such British
 T dead as were found on our part of the
 fterraif1 and the British would do 1ike-
 wise, each buryirg, naturally, its own
 dead on its. own side of the line of < Isentries- s
 Il ITO thisssthe British agents agreed.
 1of course. But the-rif1es found on both T sides of the boundary had also to be 4 disposed of. In discussing this point I
 found that the British were inclined
 Ito drive a hard bargain. I was in fla
 vor of an exchange of rifles, each par
 ty returning such rifles are were found with the dead intact. The British Iba1ked A long wrangle ensued. From tthis gathered that the British were
 funder the impression that we needed the few rifles on their side of the line.
 I assured them that such was not the case.
 incidentally, this led to a discus Esion as to what was and WIS not to be
 taken from the dead. The British pro-
 < posed taking all cartridges from the
 dead. I took the stand that all dead . Fshould be turned over without a. search for the few cartridges likely to be found on them. That point I gained after making it clear, that above the
 law of mil tagy necessity stood the higher law of humanity, which to my
 mind forbade absolutely so wanton an ed act. as the search of 2 body already s-tswe1I advanced in dissolution 1Bnt the British wanted each side to Keep slich rifles as Were found. I , Insisted that they be- exchanged ds9. We : finally agreed to exchange all rifles minus their locks
 During the arTnistiee the British , twere to suspend all movement of their !. vessels. On this point Sir Ian HarnfI-
 Eto1, the commander of the Allied
 forces, had to be consulted. The gen
 eraI sent back the reply that he could
 not accept that condition. ssI \ ssI told the British officers that there : would be no armistiee except this con
 dition was compiled with. To gain time they suggested that bring Sir Ian's reply to the attention of my SUI : tperiors. This. told them, was not i necessary. because my instructions on . the subject were final. After that the
 British officers demanded .{ that all I Turkish shipping .on the Dardane1les ! be also suspended They were not i'm cHned to accept my exploitation that this was an unfair condition, because \ susp pension of the Turkish shipping on the Dardanel1es would affect the Ot-
 toInan troops att Si'd-eI-Baflr who would not be concerned in the arrnis- tice. had put no condition regard ing British vessels at Sid-el-Rahr and teonseauently. no condition concernine l Turkish shipping supplying the Turk ish troops at Sid-el-Bahr ought to be s exacted
 r My conditions relative to the Brit ish vessels of Kaba Tepe and Ar : F3urnu. were that none but hospita ], ships were to weigh anchor during the : period of the truce were to steam ,. in or out of the territorial waters o1 Turkey. Sir Ian was acquainted with E my decision not to yield that point ' S I1lS reply was that he would not =afI1x ' his signature to so preposterous a de- $ nand. My answer was that there y would be no arnistice except the con : dition was accepted.
 q The arguments of humanity work l. both way, so I finally asked pernnis- 1t sion of my superfous to waive sil n Ian's signature to that condition ac. te cepting instead the promise that the ,e condition would be observed wtthou Is forming part of the protocol, reserv. -a ing for the Turkes the right to oper
 hostilities without notice in case z
 single British vessel other than a hos pita1 ship, undertook to change it's To- lcafiOI7 ssdJYiT1er inc