The sun., 1919-07-07
TURKEY DEFIES
ALLIES In FIGHT
TOSAVEEMPIRE
Military Chiefs Confer in
Paris Following Violation
of Armistice.
FEAR NEED OF TROOPS
Col. Haskell. as Commissioner
to Armenia, Will Try to
Solve Problem.
by LAURENCE HILLS.
STAG Correspondent Of TIE sen.

STAG Correspondent Of The SuN.
Copyright, 1913; oil rights ressrued
PARIS, July 6.-The Near East, with
Turkey the menacing figure in the
foreground, looms up as the storm CEN
Ire Of the Peace Conference. 1t is
pow impossible to ignore the fact that
khe Turks have aroused themselves
from the lethargy following the ar
bnistice and are taking advantage of
khe indecision In the allied camp to
conduct what would appear in ordi
barry times as really serious war
with a view of preserving the Turkish
Empire. All this is being done in de-
fiance Of the terms Of the armistice.
1t is now, admitted that the Big
Three made a mistake in the sudden
decision to allow the Greeks to oc'
cupy Smyrna, which action haa
aroused the Turks. Now the Allies.
as a result, see the Greeks, despite
reenforcements, steadily pushed back
by the Turkish armies, massacres 60
ing on and trouble spreading through
out the Turkish Empire.
The Allies are confronted with the
task of reinforcing the Greeks with
tried fighters or letting the Turks sc.
cure a dangerous ascendancy in an
area which the Allies were about to
divide under the mandates of the
League of Nations. Consequently
while on the eve of the so-called
peace. the Big Five yesterday were
obliged to call in the allied military
leaders and 10 lay before them the
Turkish situation and also the new
Hungarian situation, both of which
give every indication of requiring
allied military measures Of extensive
scope.
Bela Kun Denes Allies.
The Hungarian situa .on was
brought up by Herbert Hoover in a
report to the Big Five, in which he
stated thr ! the task of feeding south
eastern EUROPE virtually was at a
standstill through the seizure by Bella
Kun. the Soviet Dictator in Hungary,
of all craft on the Danube and his re-
fusal to permit their use by the Allies.
Mr.. Hoover also reported that the
Hungarian army was much larger
and of greater efficiency than gen.
orally supposed and believed. This
Information was based on careful re-
ports to Mr.. Hoover by his agents
Bella Kun therefore is defylng the AL
lies, like the Turks. which Is leading
some of the ablest commentators here
10 describe the present situation as
Intolerable.
SO far as the Turkish situation IL
concerned the allied move perhaps is
of greater significance. At yester
days session the appointment OF Col
william Haskell as allied high com.
missioner 70 Armenia was announced
While ostensibly 1t Is his main duty
TO direct the relief measures, in dlplo,
matte circles 1t was accepted from the
title given him and other circum
stances as:
First, that Col. Haskell will rule
Armenia until the mandate ques-
tion is decided.
Second, that the appointment Of
an American to this job is de-
elgne1 by President Wilson and the
Big Three 10 influence sentiment
quickly in America in favor Of at
least accepting the American man
date which the President is under
promise to the Big Three to recon-
mend to Congress as soon as he
reaches Washington.
Big Task for Col. Haskell.
Col. Haskell Is a former army maj
and has been one of Mr.. Hoover
chief aids in relief work, having ha,
charge OF the Rumanian relief. II,
now has the task, as diplomats see II
of becoming an Armenian CromeT
Niscount Cromer, 1t will be remem
bered, assisted in sta tightening on
The Government tangles in India an,
l.