The Holly chieftain., 1922-09-28
BY EDWARD W. PIckARD

\K7HETHER or not there shall be
w another great war In the Near
East depends on Mustapha Kemal
Pasha. The masterful leader of the
Turkish nationalists, having expelled
the Greeks from Asia Minor, demands
that Constantlnople be restored to Tur-
key, that he be allowed to send troops
across the straits to recover eastern
Thrace from Greece, and conference
TO arrange for guarantees for the neu-
trallty of the Dardanelles and the Bos-
phorus be held with every country bor-
dering on the Black sea, especially
Russia, represented.
To this England has formally replied
that ConstantinOple will not be given
up and that she will fight, alone If
necessary, to keep the Turk from in
vading the neutralized zone that in
cludes that city and the straits.
Kemnl's forces in Anatolia are at
the very edge of the zone, massed at
Ismid and Chanak, and already encoun-
tiers between his patrols and British
outposts are reported. England is
hurrying reinforcements for her land
forces. and the entire British Allan
tic fleet has been ordered to the Dar-
danelles. The dominions have been
asked to be ready to send troops and
New Zealand and Australia have prom
ised to do so If they are needed.
1t appears that in this conflict, II 1t
comes, Great Britain must stand prac-
tlcally alone against the Turks so
far as military operations are con-
cerned. France and Italy have de
clared they will have no part in it,
and the former has withdrawn to the
tral zone. Greece Is quite demOral-
lied and cannot be counted on to help
much. The little entente. which Is de-
ternined that neither Turkey nor Bull
garia shall get eastern Thrace would
be greatly hampered In war by mutual
jealousies and threats of revolt In va
rious regions.
Kemal's demand concerning repre-
sentation in the peace conference met
with brusque reply when Marquis
Curzon. British foreign minister, and
Count Sforza, Italian ambassador to
France. met Premier POincare to ar
range for the parley. They announce
that France. Great Britain, Italy,
Japan, Greece, Turkey, Jugo-Savia
and Rumania would participate in the
conference to be held In Venice or
Rome, and Kemal's demand that
Russia be included was no less in
sstent than that of the soviet govern
ment. but General Daniloff, chief of
the Russian general staff, denied the
current report that Russia would give
Kemal armed assistance, saying the
big soviet army in the Caucasus was
there to defend the frontiers and the
Bnku oil fields. Russia has no In
ientiOn Of sending troops to Asia
Minor General Daniloff said, nor Is
there any truth In the rumor of Rus.
sian renforcements on the Esthonlni',
Latvian or Polish frontiers. Russia
does not want fighting on any front,
and, besides, any military man knows
II would be foolish to begin anything
in September with winter imminent"
T LLOYD GEORGES policy, stern and
~ uncompromisIng. though support
ed so far by most of his cabinet, may
have TO he modified. There is increas-
ing protest by the press and people OF
England against Great Britain's I'M.
dertaklng any new war, and the oppo-
sition OF the trades unions and in the
great manufacturing centers is espe-
clally violent There is widespread
feeling that the Turks really are en-
titled to repossess Constantinople SO