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chief In Thrace and has left with
his secretary for SaIoniki.
WHOLE SITUATION AFFECTED

! MS secretary TOR Sdionlki.
WHOLE SITUATION AFFECTED
| Paris, Dec. 2S.-A dispatch to the
Havas agency from Rome saws a re-
port is current in a usually we1l-in
formed quarter. that military circles
| IN Athens are growing excited and that
there is an inclination to believe the
Greek troops, who now have been re-
organized. are about to re-entcr
Thrace, since the Mudania Martha
frontier is held only by weak allied
detachments.
The dispatch adds that ii is felt in
Rome that if the Greek staff carries
out this plan. the whole situation in
the Near East will be profoundly af-
fected
NOTHING SETTLED THUS FAR
Lausanne. Dec. 2s.-Not a single
important question on the asenda of
the Near East conference has been sci
tied. despite many weeks of negotia-
tlons, Ria Nur Bey of the Turkish
delegation informed The Associated
Press Thursday night and therefore
there was no wonder all the delegates
deemed that crisis had arisen.
But Turkey had come to Lausanne
ror peace, and if peace was not OBJ
taihed ana rupture came, it would
not be the fault of Turkey. but of the
allies.
Il do not say that things are hone
less. added Ria Nur. but we Ger
talniy are in state of tension"
Turkey never could yield on the
question of special courts for foreign
ers, he said. The Angora assembly
never would accept conditions under
winch Turkey would be treated as an
interior nation
Europe and America insist tbat
special courts, upon which foreign
judges sit, must administer justice 10
foreigners in Mustapha Kemars re-
public. Ismet Pasha declares that
such courts would be an infringement
on Turkish sovereignty. In fact, he
reiterated this declaration SO often ar
thursdays stormy meeting Of the com
MISSION on capitulations that Lord
turZon retorted:
L beg that Ismet Pasha vrap m
ana place carefully away in cum
BOARD this question of Turkish SOW
ereignty, which nobody wishes in the
least to offend. Turkey is not the
only country which enjoys sovereignty:
many other powers have it. and fire.
quentiy greater powers than Turkey
submit questions to international tri-
bunals without fear of impairins their
sovereign rights
Curzon Gets Caustic
lsmet had declared that Turkish
laws and Turkish courts were the
equal of any in Europe so often. Lord
Curzon continued, that he had ac-
tually come to believe it.
But the important thing is not
what the Turkish delegation thinks
about Turkish Justice added Curzon.
but what the rest of the world thinks
about it. England's King George ~
convinced himself that he led the
guards at the battle of Waterloo, but
nobody else ever believed it. and his
tory does not record it.
The plain truth is Turkish laws
are based on Moslem law and were
drawn by Moselm jurists and theot
ogians. The judges are uneducated.
poorly paid and dilatory The same
Is true of the police and the whole
of Turkish justice is de-
fectlve. Under Turkish courts for
elgners cannot conduct business in
Turkey and it will be impossible for
Turkey alone to get the machinery,
transport and food necessary for her
and development"
Allies Stand United
Marquis dl Garrino, NJ. Barrere. NJ.
Bompard. Ambassador Child and
Baron Hayashi all spoke in support
II the proposed courts for foreigners.
lpon. which foreign judges designated
~ the international tribunal at The
Hague shall sit. Under this plan. Tur-
sey would be permitted to select
Judges from the list submitted by The
Hague tribunal.
Ambassador Child's warning that
Turkey would align herself with other
lations which have repudiated their
Obligations if she wiped out all the
AFFILIATIONS and did not grant some
hing instead of guarantee to her
reaty pledges. created marked i'm
'ression in the conferences and was
.radfying to the allied delegations.
eho regarded the address as advice
o Turkey not to isolate herself as
Russia has done.
Japan, which herself was obliged
uring a long period to accord the
anne extra territorial privileges to
oreigners as Turkey, intervened in
thursdays dramatic debate in the role
f mediator. Baron Hayashi coun-
eHed turkey 10 ne patient and con
iliatory. He recalled the many long
ears which passed before Japan sue
eeded in freeing herself from capitu-
atoms.
The Turkish delegation had long
difference Thursday night TO consider
he latest serious developments and
rame the Turkish reply, which may
e ready for submission to the CON
erence tomorrow.
HONOR WILSON.
New Haven. Conn, Dec. 2S.--While
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