The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1922-12-08
Turks URGE
new PLAN ON
DARDANELLES
Ask Guarantees Against Sur
prise Attacks on Land
Or Sea
ALLIES CONSIDER OFFER
Entente Soidly United
Against Russian Position
On Near East
ALLIES CONSIDER OFFER

,i.usanne. Dec. 8.-Turkey pre-
sortea IN the Near East conference
todav counter suggestions concern
;np control of the straits OF tne
Dardanelles and the Bosphorus'
The Turks ask: -.......
Guarantees against surprise az
tacks from land or sea threatening
the security Of the straits OF Con-
stantinople or OF the sea OF Mar
mora. .
for the Black Sea, so that they Will
not constitute a danger to the zone
extending between the two straits
to the Black Sea; (Turkey expresses
the view that these forces might be
composed of light war ships, en-
ployed for the protection OF inter-
national commerce.)
Introduction on the maintenance
If war ships in the Black Sea, and
liberty of passage for merchantmen
in time of peace and war.
The Turkish position on the cues
ton Of the straits was presented by
Ismet Pasha, who gave hlstorlcal
sketch of the problem Of the straits,
declaring Turkey never had acted
contrary to international treaties
concerning that waterway.
w. Ismet Makes Appeal
After hearing Ismet Pasha's ad-
dress the conference took a recess
until afternoon to give the allies
time to study the Turkish sugges-
tions.
Some of the European delegates
express their opinion that the points
raised by the Turks should not
make final accord difficult.
The Near East conference today
awaited with interest divulgence of
Turkeys plans for control Of the
straits. Ismet Pasha, who has eau
>tionsly allowed Russia and the en-
tente to tell their plans in detail,
has spared for time for many days
without frank statement of
Turkeys views.
Ismet Pasha learned that the
United States practically stands
with the entente powers and the
little entente in opposing the Rus
sian plan which contemplated abb
solute control of the straits by
Turkey, barring the waterway to the
warships of all nations except
Turkey. ... 49,
The visit of Premier Mussolini
here yesterday gave notice that the
entente is solidly united against the
Russian position and gave Ismet as
much information as to Europe's at
titude toward the Dardanelles pues-
ton as he could hope to obtain.
Look For Agreement 4.
Many Turkish leaders, doubling
the premanency of the Bolshevik
regime in Russia, have counselled
against too close cooperation with
the Soviet delegation at the expense
of cordial relations with the naval
powers.
The entente plan went far to-
wards giving Turkey absolute sove-
reignty over the straits, but it was
generally expected the Turks would
demand a greater latitude in or
der that Constantinople might be
be free snd capable of defense in an
emergency.
The tenacity with which Foreign
Minister Tchitcherin has held to
his demand that Turkey be given
absolute control Of the straits made
it seem probable that Russia would
approve no other program and that
Russia and Turkey might, therefore
break on the Dardanelles issue. The
Turks do not want to be forced td
build a navy and are eager to obtain
the. aid of the European powers in
reconstructing their country.