Evening star., 1922-10-06
FARLEY NOT ENDED.
Lord Curzon Prepares to Go to
Paris.

By tho Associated Press.
LONDON, October 6.-The Mudania
conference is not ended, it was off,
cially stated at the conclusion Of
the British cabinet meeting this
morning, but it Is deadlocked and
cannot be resumed before the British
and French governments have con-
ferred over the situation.
Lord Curzon, the British foreign
secretary, will leave Immediately for
Paris to see Premier Poincare.
1t was also officially. stated. in
rough outline, that from the British
point of view the Turks afG~demafa.'
ing more than was offered in the al
lied note, and on the other hand that
they were not accepting the condi-
Jions of that note. 1t was asserted
hat the Turks want to obtain the
concessions of the note without the
conditions.
The officials decline to give in de-
tail what the Turks were demanding.
Thrace Main Question.
The British cabinet today debated
the situation in it's entirety, but the
main point appeared to be the ques-
tion of Thrace. 1t is understood the
British view Is that there should be
some consideration given the Greek
minority population there, and what
might happen to it If the Turks were
permitted to enter.
There seems to be no difficulty over
the question of the Chanak area
which the British have been oc-
cupying.
On broad lines the British policy. it
was stated, is the same as it has
been since the Greek debacle, which
means that the British are opposed
to the Turks crossing the straits be-
fore the peace conference.
1t is considered possible several
days may elapse before it can be de-
termined whether the Emergencies
between the British and the Turks
can be reconciled so they can enter
the peace conference.
The French and the Italians, 1t was
declared, have not the same positive
views with regard to Thrace as have
The British. and it was stated that
be brought closer together the Brit
ish could not reply as regarding the
peace conference.
Greek Attitude Important.
The Greek attitude in Thrace con-
tinues to be an important factor. The
Greeks are threatening to arm them
selves to fight for Thrace and the
British have this threat to use as a
possible argument against the Turk
ish attitude.
Things were going we'll at the Mu-
dania conference. it was explained,
until yesterday, when Ismet Pasha de-
clined to recede from his demand re-
garding Thrace.
1t was stated in official circles that
the visits Of ex-Premier Venizelos of
Greece had not changed the views of
the British cabinet and that Venizelos
realized it was inevitable that the
Greeks must evacuate eastern Thrace,
The armistice conference of allied,
Greek and Turkish military leaders
at Mudania was adjourned suddenly
yesterday after dramatic passage
in which Ismet Pasha, representa-
the Angora government, demanded
that the Turks be allowed to OCCUPY
eastern Thrace as a precedent to any
peace conference.
Turk Threatens war.
Ismet Pasha told the allied gener-
ais that if the Turks could not have
Thrace peacefully I'VE have the
means to enforce our determination"
Earlier in the day the Greek dele
gates had declared in no less certain
terms their readiness to fight, il
necessary to retain the province.
That the Turkish demand had been
duly weighed and calculated Is evil
denced by the almost simultaneous
receipt of an Angora dispatch quoting
Mustapha Kemal Pasha as declaring
before the national assembly: "The
evacuation and surrender of Thrace
must occur Immediately. especially as,
since the Greek revolution, the
Moslem subjects are in great danger,
Ismet Pasha's bombsheil was fol-
lowed by another when the French
delegates announced they were in
structed to support the Turkish de-
mand. This created q definite split.
with the Turks and French opposed
TO the British and Italians, the latter
holding that evacuation of Thrace by
the Greeks and reoccupation by the
Turks should follow, and not precede,
the peace conference.
The allied generals thereupon ad-
journed the meeting and left for Con-
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