New-York tribune., 1922-12-02
lsmet Hints War When
Demand for Immediate
Custer Of Greeks in Con.
staniinopIe is Denied
100000 to Leave
Anatolia at Once
Deportation of Two Races
To Be Made on Scale
unknown in History
By Wilbur Forrest
spsslai caol, % ~. rrcss..


% be on the verge Ct collapse and
word Of rs adjournment would sur.
prise no one here who has observed
she visible agitation IN an delega-
tons during The day
Heads Of missions have been
meeting secretly at frequent inter.
ysls to-day. Tonight Ismet Pasha
visited Marquis Curzon, the British
Foreign Secretary, fer fifteen min.
utes on the latter's invitation and
when be came out Of the conference
he vas obviously perturbed. When
he reached biz hotel he was be.
s!eged b. Turkish eorrsspondents,
who asked for IN explanation.
you may wire Constantinopls
that the Turkish people may sgsn
be called on to defend their rights"
he said with yigor.
NO 'ssre Near agrcruent
So fsr IS Is known here tonight, no
single important issue between the
Allies and The Turks appears sgseep-
tible Of a settlement hare snd Il is
generally held that The conference VII
be adjourned after q rpreo. Greeian
ssttlamsnt Of soms sort "a Elected. 20
rseonvene perhaps a. = laseT date.
TIE critical state OF the negctia.
mons Is charged .n sart 70 lhs ae.lon
Of the conference today ia accepting
the Turkish dsirsnd lof the immcciai5
repatriation Of the 500 900 70 100000
Greeks IN FUR h Asia Minor.
Acqulestence in the Turkish de-
nand, which Is hello N May culrtsrs
here 10 set the blackest precedent IN
the worlds history, cane shout
through apprehension Of the Allies
for ,hc fate o. the Greeks living In
Asia. Il was sald IN explanation. lsret
Pasha made 10 clear that the TURKS do
not want the Greeks under their Gag.
and Il was feared that faiiaro on the
rzrt OF the negotiations here % yield
would rssult IN Wholesale massaerss
in AnAtolia.
The conference, however, stood out
against Ismet'e cddlt' onal demand that
the 100000 Greeks In Constantinoplo
also be expelled AZ once, although it
agreed 70 consider the matter further.
Turks To Be Deported
AZ the same time Il was decided
that the 100000 Turks IN Greclan terri.
tory will Be dep )rtad. or that nunibtr
100000 are In new Greece, including
Crete and the acjelrlng islands; only
about 1000 are IN ola Greece aud the
remainder IN western Thraes.
Thus the Lausanne conference PER-
misted this great change Of clvl ian
population, a movement unp9ra 'elcd
In history, involving perhaps more than
. million and q quarter x peop u
IS the same as II after the Wor.e War
the United States, Eng and, France and
Italy had compelled citizens or iuo.
iects oi German blood 10 sell their
property ~ forced sale and ie,ye ths
country. The smile hts exactly, sx-
eeps that the question rel M
ters into the lureo-CTeek transplan-
tation.
The Greeks are Christians. not Nos.
lsms, and that ls their er ne In The
eyes oil the TURKS. Virtually OH of
then are Turkish subjects, as millions
of persons Of German blood are Amer.
.an citizens. In fact, they Inhabited
hat Is modern Turkey 1nore than
thousand years before the Turks came
n and destroyed the Byz-ntins EmpirS;
rhs move will mesn the end Of ell
Greek colonies IN Turkey.
The Greeks Ia eastern Ihrsfs, which
7rovinee was ceded 20 the Turks a.
he Mudania conference, already have
eft that province bag and baggage.
turkish gendarmes and Allied repre-
sentatives to-day hr1 no s'ngls house
Inhabited BY Christian Gre,N whereas
10000 were IN the region few weeks
go. To ofysct this about 10000 Turks
from Creeian Thrsee will nlgrate
across the MARTHA River
War Prisoners Few
Prisoners Of var, who also viii BE-
exchanged, numser on'y 10 600 n the
hands Of the Greeks and so 900 IN
Turkish camps. The Greeks ho 4 only
$500 civilian prisoners as result 4
the Anatolian war. and the TURKS hold
between 10000 and 10000.
Lord CurEon joinee Verixelos IN cp-
posing Ismet's dsmsnd that the 800 600
Greeks In Constantinople be expelled.
The former told Ismet re thought the
Turks should keep the Greeks there for
economic reasons, but the little For
eign Minister wss unylelding. Venize-
los told the coaferets that bis country
could not assir.i ate refugees from
Constnntircple IN addition 70 those
from Asia Minor. and said he vou :
be forced % appeal q the United
States for help and 70 relax the rigcr
Of It's immigration laws.
The agreement was made st a ses-
sion Of the territorial commission N
which Curzon, Yen.ze.os, Ismet and
Barrsre participated. Altar the Al.
lies had surrendered 10 the Turkish
demand a sub-commiSsicn uae appoint
ed, csntisting Of British, Preach. Itsl-
ian, Greek and Turkish Representa- ives,
70 work out the cstalls Of the ytsl e.
change.
u Nsnsen Urges Speed
Dr.. Tristiof Nansen, Leagus Of Ma
tions representative, charged with cid
Ing tie evacuation c( yesugCss IRON
smypna, urged that tia wofk Of DC.
poytatlon beoin at once, beesuss rriets
the populations were Transferred be
fore ths end o. February they would
be unable 10 plant crops n their nc'g
surreuntinrs snt TIE wcrlf voqid face