Evening star., 1922-09-19
SAYS FR|GHTFU.L |.
!: TURKzWAR LOOMS
Former constantinopIe Pro.
! fessor Fears Struggle
! for Holy City.
SOVIETS MAY JOIN DRIVE
Bosporus Conditions Favor Allies,
However, Declares Sann-
wood Cobb.
s0vIETS MAY JOIN DRIVE

The Turks will make a tremendous
effort and stop at nothing to get back
their holy city. Constantinople. IN the
opinion Of Stanwood Cobb, principal
Of the Chevy Chase Country Day
school, and formerly a professor at
Robert College. Constantinopie.
A frightful war may ensue.. Mr.. COBB
believes, II the Turks strike arms
with the allied forces protecting the
neutral zone of the straits from in
vasion. Mr.. and Mrs. Cobb recently
returned from an extended trip to the
near east.
The possibility that Bulgaria and
soviet Russia may join the TURKS IN
their drive for restoration OF the an :
cient capital. he indicated. brings
heavy potentislities on on the the El s,as ,sh %.
population of Constantinople itself.
re added, outnumbers the European
population, and though unoIsan1eo'
would prove a force for Mustapna a
Kemal Pasha within the bouhos OF
the city.
Difficulty fer TurkA.
The Turks would find difficulty, MI.
Cobb believes, In attempting to block
the Dardanelles and prevent passage
of British or other allied ships, as
they have no ships Of their own. and
their largest artillery Is reported as
four-pounders Veg SeEotihaioh difa,,,1e 1a uhe
for the Kemalists. Nr Cobb declared,
as from the Asia Minor side OF the
straits they would have dificuity IN
crossing TO Constantinople without
ships of their own. ana under Qre OF
the enemy.
A factor considered of grave con-
sequences at the present time how
ever. Mr.. Cobb said. Is the split be-
tween the British and French In re-
gard to the allied policy al CONSTANT
nople. The French. ne asserted. have
not only a treaty with the Kemalists.
but are jealous Of the British. and IN
clined to hold back. while the British
ministry seems to be pushing for-
ward to hold off the Turk with force
of arms. Jealousy on the part OF the
French in the near east. Mr.. Cobb
declared specifically wen. back to the
results Of the world war. out OF which.
according TO abe French. the Brit
ish got much more extensive awards,
including Palestine and the execution
of allied policy at the straits.
TURKS Given Advantages.
Advantages were given the Turks
by the French when hte latter with
drew from Cilicia. leaving a large
supply of arms and munitions, accord
ing to Mr.. Cobb.
Trouble for the British in case war
is declared against the Turks was
declared by Mr.. Cobb to be brewing
in Egypt. The Egyptian nationalists
told MIR Cobb when he was In Cairo
that they intended killing of all the
British officers one at a time, by as
sassination. Fifteen British officers
had been murdered by the national
lists. when he was there, but not one
Of the murdefeds had as yet been ap-
pretended.
l.adMias Esypti.n nationaiists deter
mined their leanings toward the Turks.
it was said. and, in case the British
attempted recruiting colonists there for
war against Turkey. there would be
trouble for Great Britain.
The whole .0f EUROPE Mr. Cobb said
he considers row "a house OF cards.
The Versailles treaty, he said. had built
UP nations which were In no sense
ethnographlc. and already trouble had
broken out jn,Jugoslavia. in particular,
were not 'lifing in harmony within one
government tai household.
Austria was threatened with internal
propaganda of the soviet, one French
officer having told Mr Cobs that the
very steps which had been enacted In
Russia in the founding of the soviet
government of the bQlsheviki were
being re-enacted In Vienna. where
there was already s9cialistic regime.
said, had been related to him by the
American consul at Vienna. c. F. Fos-
ter, who had working IN the consulate.
as cleflb, one adnffal, one captain, two
commanders frefh the former Austrian
navy and a couple OF dukes"