The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-12-07
TURKEY MUST
DECIDE UPON
CASTING LOT
Faces Hard Problem
at Farley
fBy Associated Pressl

10y associated PresS)
LAUSANNE, Dec. The Turkish
delegates to the Near East conference
today faced the difficult problem of de-
Gliding whether Turkey, in formulating
her plan for control of the Dardanelles.
should cast her lot with Russia or
with the entente powers and the Unit
ed States. Turkeys suggestions for
the solution of the perplexing Straits
question will be made public tomorrow
at the hotel Du Chateau.
lsmet Pasha and his associates. in
formulating their plans, were faced by
the sharp differences in opinion be-
tween Great Britain and Russia in the
discussion of the Dardanelles question
If Turkey. on the one hand. goes over
to the British camp she fears the frate
Russlan army on her eastern frontier
II, on the other hand she sides with
huss1a, in demanding complete control
Oh tne waterway, she fears the British
navy in the Straits.
Have Temporized.
The Turks thus far have temporizeH
by saying that they favored M. Tchit1
cher1n's plan. but they took this at
tltude before they had heard the so-
luton offered bw the powers. Ismet
Pasha and his associates were int-
pressed by the plan presented by
Lord Curzon yesterday, on behalf af
the entente, which was approved in
general by the statement of the posi-
ton of the United States. The Turks
apparently can not forget that Russia
is Turkeys traditional enemy, and
that Premier Lenine's government
may be not less covetous of CONSTANT
nople and the straits than was Russia
in the days of the czars.
Turkey always has found protection
in numbers. She has played the Eu
ropean countries against each other
to her great advantage time and again,
and she hesitates to trust her fate to
Russia alone while the rest of Europe,
supported by the United States, op-
poses an effort to turn the Black sea
into Russian lake.
Russ Fight Hard
M. Tchftcherin fighting hard to de-
feat Lord CurZon's plans, urges that it
would enable a combination of powers
like the entente to keep a great navy
in the Black Sea as each member of
the combination could maintain there
as many ships as belonged to Hussia
or whatever Black Sea power hap
pened to have the largest navy at
the time. :
Turkey, however, In considering
Russia's plan, apparently has an eye
on her own pocketbook. If she adopt
ed NJ. Tchitcherin's plans Turkey
would be forced to make great out
lay for fleet and for Qualifications
and as she has no money she would
prefer to have some one else bear the
expense of policing the straits.
Ismet Pasha is in constant COM
munication with Mustapha kemaT
PaiSha-
Adjournment Rumored
There are rumors Of possible ad-r
journment of the congress for the
Christmas holidays inasmuch as the
situation between the powers and
Turkey has cleared considerably.
The question of capitulations is in
an even worse tangle than the straits,
problem. but Great Britain, France
and italy are showing tact in handling
Turkeys sensitive attitude toward her
acceptance of anything that would
bring her sovereignty into question.
Since the Russian squall over the
Dardanelles has been weathered with
out disaster, the prospects seem muchi
brighter for an agreement on princt-
pies that will satisfy all parties.
The various sub-commissions are
meeting daily to thresh out the de-
tails of the question on the agenda,
but the real work of the conference
is largely accomplished in private con-
versations among the leading dele
gates.