Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-10-04
RETIRE FROM cHANAK

RETIRE FROM CHANAK
Constantinople, Oct. 3.-The Turkish
cavalry has retired from its advanced
position in the Chanak area because
of the dangers of conflict there.
This withdrawal, which is described
in messages from the Dardanelles as
Slight" was supposed here to be IN
consequence of word received by the
Turks that the Mudania conference was
in session. The Turks, however. were
said still to be well within the neutral
o
Only military matters will be taken
up at the conference of allied Iurk-
ish nationalist commanders at Mudanla,
the political aspects of the situation
being disposed at a later meeting, ac-
cording to Henri Franklin-B ouillon,
whose recent trip to Smyrna, where
he conversed with Mustapha Renal
Pasha, was responsible for the sum
.moning of Tuesdays conference.
The two most important questions
to be discussed, he said, were the de-
marcation of a new neutral zone on the
Asiatic side of the Dardanelles and at
.Ismid, and the evacuation of Thrace.
He was confident that an agreement
would be reached.
SCENE OF PEACE FARLEY
Mudania, Oct. 3.-Never was there a
stranger setting for a conference OF
world powers than this little village,
on the southern shore of the Sea Of
Marmora.- Even the presence of the
great warships of England, France and
Italy seemed homogeneous in the tiny
cove, belted with rocks and mud, which
is Mudania's harbor, for their only
%neighbors were a few scattered fishing
boats and nondescript barges.
A few hundred yards from the point
selected for the anchorage of the great
Iron Duke lay the gaunt skeletons,
half submerged, of two Turkish trans
ports sunk by. British submarines dur
ing the world war.
Nothing about Mudania is impressive
save for the bulk of snow capped
Mount Olympus, rising majestically in
the distance. The town is squalid and
depressing. There is not a single
building of architectural ~pretentions;
the houses are of mud, shaped like
huge beetles, and the stores thrust
their latticed windows into the narrow
crooked streets.
There is no sound of railway or mo
tor truck to disturb. There is no evi-
dence of modern life, save two tele-
phone wires which run into the offices
of the police chief and the mayor
There is no restaurant, no postoffica
no busy markets-no evidence of the
modern world Of business except the
un~pretentionus office of the Standard
Oil company.
Town Long Forgotten
The town has been of little impor,
lance, either to business or politics
since the days long since past, wher
it was the port of entry for Brust
in the period when that city was thu
capital of the Turkish empire. Once
however, about a year ago it flashed
into prominence when the new deposeC
King Constantine of Greece made hi
triumphal entry into Asia Minor il
the vain dream that this was to b
the beginning of the re-establishmen
of the Greek empire.
Such was the setting today of tn
conference TO which the military rep
resentatives of the allied powers hur
ried across 20 miles of water fror
Co~nstantinople.
The departure from Galata wa
fixed for Z O'Clock in the mornin
with arrivals here at noon and tn
opening of the conference at / O'Clock
The British delegation included tn
chief, Brigadier Genera
Sir Charles Harrington, and Colonel "
II. Grabbon and Major T. J. G. Hey
wood, of the general headquarters stat