, 1920-03-18
Conditions in Turkey Compel the
Allies to Make Strong
Showing of Force.
RUSSIA AGAIN SEEKS PEACE
Renews Offers to Warsaw After q
Severe Defeat by PoIes-Supreme
Council on Economic Restoration
Another Final Struggle In
Senate Over the
Treaty.
BY EDWARD W. PicKARD.

Conditions in Turkey have been going
from bad to worse until the supreme
council Of the allies has been driven
even to plan for the temporary tax
ing over of certain of the Turkish
government activities, including the
war department. If the Turks behave
themselves better and cease the mas
sacring Of Armenians this control will
be only temporary. Urged especially
by Premier Venizelos of Greece. the
council is said TO have ordered the
occupation of important points in Ash
attic and European Turkey by allied
military and naval forces in the be-
lief that strong showing Of military
force would bring the Turks around
to their senses. If this is not sufH-
cient, It may be necessary to start
operations against Mustapha Kennel
Pasha, the Turkish commander in
Asiatic Turkey, and it is believed
these would be carried out by the
Greek army of 10000 men now in the
Smyrna region.
. Since the recent massacre in Ma
rash similar outrages have occurred
In a number Of other places and 1t
is reported that Turks, Kurds and
Arabs are besieging Aintab. Urfa, Dia-
bekr, Mardin and other towns. In
all these places there are American
relief workers who are in danger. and
many days ago Consul J. B. Jackson
at Aleppo asked our state department
to send a squadron of warships to
Port Alexandretta. The French gar
risons, however, are the chief objects
Of attack and considerable French re.
Inducements have been sen to Gill
ella.
The trouble in Turkey, which is
said to be directed from Berlin and
supported by the bolsheviki, is a part
Of the general fight being put up In
Egypt, Mesopotamia, and other u
tries by so-called nationalists who are
attacking the British rule. Dispatches
from Turkey assert that Prince Feisal
of the Hedjaz kingdom is implicated
I'm It and has suggested a possible
union of Turkey, Syria and the Hedjaz.
The situation is becoming almost as
complicated and difficult to under
stand as that in Russia some months
ago.
What was heralded as a great drive
against Poland by the Russian bolshe-
Wiki was turned into a decisive defeat
of the latter when the Poles took two
important railway functions and a
large number of prisoners, including
an entire division staff. Immediately
thereafter Tchitcherin, soviet foreign
minister, sent another peace note to
Warsaw, asking when and where the
peace delegates of all the border ma
lions might meet with the representa-
tives of the bolsheviki. He asked Po-
land to refrain from further hostilities
and explained that the soviet opera
tions on the Lithuanian and White
Ruthenian fronts, which the Poles had
broken up, were inspired by e a that
the Poles intended to start a drive
against the Ukraine. President Pilsud-
skis position In Poland was greatly
strengthened by the victory of his
troops and the attitude of the Mos
cow government.
The Roumanians and the bolsheviki
are In a fair way to make peace, ne
gotiations now being under way at
Dorna-Watra in Bukowina. AS a pre-
llminary the Roumanlans demand that
the soviet troops be withdrawn from
the frontier and that commercial rela-
tons be resumed. 1t now appears like
Iy that Roumania will succeed in her