Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1922-09-18
ALLIES PREPARE
FOR A POSSIBLE
kEMAL|sT DRIVE
TOWARD EUROPE
Recent Developments in the
Near East Are Causing
the British Government
Increased Anxiety,
WEEK END SESSION IS
HELD BY THE CABINET
Telephones Between the
Prime Minister'S Resi-
denCe and London Hum
ming With Conversations

London, Sept II (by the Asso-
ciated Press) Near Eastern de-
velopments are causing the British
government increased anxiety. The
cabinet has been sitting informally
over the week end at Chequers
Court, the country residence of the
prime minister. Austen Chamber
lain, Lord Birkenhead. Sir Robert
Stevenson Horne and Winston
Spencer Churchill have been Mr.
Lloyd Georges guests there, and all
through Sunday the telephones be
tween Chequers Court and the for
eign office in London have been
humming with consultations with
the various government depart
mcnts.
Another informal council will be
held tomorrow, and the foreign
minister of Jugo-Slavia. NJ, Mn
chitch, who has been in cOnsulta-
tion with Premier POincare at
Paris, who will reach London to-
morrow, will have an interview
with the prime minister and Lord
Curzon, the British secretary for
foreign affairs.
Lamb COnfers With kCmal.
The principal Iews of the day
brought by Associated Press dis
patches is OF a conference between
Sir Harry Lamb. the British high
commissioner, and Mustapha
Kemal P&sha at Smyrna, in which
the nationalist leader showed little
disposition to regard allied warn
ings unless the allies were willing
TO return Thrace to Turkey. More
over, Kemal demands complete
from the Tchatalja lines.
The latest advice from Constant
inople indicate serious allied prep
arations for a possible attempt by
the Kcmalists against the neutral
zone. This may serve to explain
the somewhat sudden change in
the attitude of the British govern
ment from Friday, when it was eX-
planned that no considerable rein
forCements would be sent to the
Near East unless the Turks gave
evidence Of an intent to cross into
Europe, to Saturday. when the
British government issued an i'm
portant statement of policy show
ing immediate steps to meet pos
sible Kemalist action.
This sudden change in attitude
has caused grave misgivings in GER.
tain quarters. The Daily Mail to-
morrow will publish under the edi-
tOrial caption, This New War" an
article stigmatizinG the policy. set
forth in the statement as "bordcr-
ing upon insanity
New War in Near East.
1t declares that the British pub
lie will learn with dismay and
astonishment that Mr. Lloyd
George and his colleagues are or
ganizing a new war in the Near
East are trying to drag Jugo-
Slavia and Rumania into the fray
and are sending British troops into
battle shoulder to shoulder with
the detected Creeks
1t adds: THE most astonishing
disclosure in this amazing deClara-
ration of government policy is that
apparently Mr.. Lloyd George al
ready has sent fiery cross around
the overseas dominion. asking
them to send contingents to Join in
IIllS lldu war.
The Mail contends that Musta-
pha Kemars peace terms are not
far removed from the terms pro-
pounded by Lord CurZon, in behalf
of the allies on March so. when
Lord CurzOn suggested the Enos-
Midia line should be the Turkish
frontier in Europe. 1t declares that.
all agree that Constaitinople must
be returned to the Turks and
kemal Pasha, and now Mr.. Lloyd
George is trying to retrieve his
shattered reputation, through the
downfall of his pro-Greek policy
by arranging wanton war and
supposing he can arouse the nation
as Gladstone did in the seventies Of
last century about Bulgaria"
Freedom of the Straits.
While the Mail has known pro-
French proclvities. it voices an
opinion which Is quite prevalent
Great Britain's one true interest
is freedom OF the straits, which
can be attained by negotiation,
the paper continues. There is not
the smallest need to plunge Europe
into war. and ALLEVIATE the whole
Mohammedan world about the
straits"