New-York tribune., 1922-11-14
isinet pasha, at T.asasanlse,I
Calls Indefinite Attitude
Joke or Insult; Hints
War VIII BE Forced.
French Refuse TO
Meet i'm London
SendCounterOferto to Hold
Preliminary Talk With
Italians i'm Switzerland
By Wilbur Forrest
apccsal cobro to The Tribane

Copyright. 1922 New York Tribune ina.
PARIS, Nov. 13.--Ismet Pasha,
Turkish Nationalist representative
to the Lausanne Near East Confer
ence, to-day threatens to withdraw
from that gathering and return to
Constantinople unless assurances
against undue delay are Forthcoming
from the Allies within a very short
space. This is tantamount to a
threat that the Turks are ready to
continue their warfare in the Near
East unless due Difference is shown
them by the English, French and
Italians.
Ismet uttered his withdrawal
threat to a special correspondent Of
The Tribune with whom he talked
at lengi,4 in his room to-day at the
Palace Hotel in Lausanne The cor
respondent telephoned the Turkish
envoy's ultin1atum TO the Paris Office
If The Tribune at 5 o'clock this aft
eraoon. Allied representatives have
not yet commented or it.
Ismet Pasha characterized the post
ponement of the conference as "arbi-
| trary," and declared that the Turkish
people could not but regard it as either
q joke or an insult.
eff our delegation is marooned here
at Lausanne practically without ex-
planation,'' he said, "the people at home
will be led to believe that have
fallen into trap. / know that the
French are not responsible for this
situation know equally well that
| Lord CurZon is anxious to come 10
| Lausanne with a common Allied ultima
tum, in order to treat US as the Allies
! treated the Bulgarians. the Hungarians a
4 and the Austrians.
Are Not Beaten
! There is, however, considerable dif-
| ference in our position and the position
that those peoples occupied. We are
not beaten"
Although the Turks arrived at
Lausanne last night. it was only this
| afternoon that the French minister
from Berne visited 1smet Pasha TO
advise him that the Allies were not
ready to convoke the conference. Two
Japanese Representatives, an advance
guard Of the japanese delegation TO
the conference, were also installed at
the Palace Hotel, in Lausanne, when
the French representative arrived.
In answer to Ismet's direct question,
the French minister informed him that
not only was he unable to inform him
OF the precise date for the conference
ne not having been informed of the
agreement of the Allies on November
20 as the date-but that he brought
no official invitation for Ismet to go
to Paris or to confer in any capacity
with a representative of France.
News of the official naming of
November 20 as the date of the con-
/ ference has not yet been delivered TO
lsmet, and he Immediately wired to
/ Paris. London and Rome, demanding
to know precisely what program the
Allies intend to follow.
Invited to Paris
Meanwhile the French government
| has sent ismet an invitation to come to
! Paris and hold preliminary conversa-
| tions en- the Near Eastern situation.
Ferid Rey, the Angora Ambassador
here, to-day left for Lausanne, bear-
ing this invitation personally. Simul-
! taneously Premier Poincare declined
| the British invitation to visit London
| and hold preliminary discussion OF
| Near Eastern affairs with the English.
| As an alternative proposal Premier
! Poincare suggested that if Lord Cur
zon is unwilling TO come to Paris, as
he has stated, and Premier Mussolini
| OF Italy is unable to come north iin-
riediately preliminary Allied CONVERSE
tions be held at Lausanne or Geneva.
Whatever effect the French invita-
ton to lsmet to come to Paris may
! have his stand to-day throws consid.
erable light on the attitude the Turks
will take when the gathering at Lau-
/ same is convened, especially toward
any concerted Allied program with
which they are confronted--a thing
/ upon which Britain insists and to,
which France and Italy are agreed ia
principle.
In his talk with the Tribune CORE.
spondent to-day at Lausanne Ismes
Pasha said:
"Thc most difficult task of all my
military career has not been defending
! the Dardanelles nor defeating the
I Greeks, but stopping the Turkish
/ troops in their tracks recently when
they were in full pursuit of the enemy
and holding them within the lines pre-
| scribed by the Allies. Such situations
as now exists is intolerable, unbear-F
able. You must realize that my peo-
pie Che refers here to his troops are
anxious TO see their homes again at
Adrianople and in other parts of Eu-
ropean Turkey, and to know Ccnstan-
tinopie again as their free capital.
When the Turkish people learn that
their delegation. which hurried to
/ Switzerland at Allied dictation in or,
1 der to negotiate the last stages Of the
fulfllment of Turkish Nationalist as
pirations, is sitting at Lausanne alone
they will scent trap. s
1 Wants French Peace
II cannot remain here long In this
position. If Premier Poincare wires
! that he wants to see me I will 60 tos
/ Paris and explain the matter TO him.
personally. Why can't we make peace
with France first and with the others
later, anyway"
While ismet was delivering himself
! thus at Lausanne, Paris was refusing
! to go to London for preliminary dis
cussiens. Lord Hardinge. British Ans.
! bassadcr at Paris, called OF rremies
Foincare early this morning and de-
ST invitation. The