Norwich bulletin., 1922-12-04
REVIEW OF SECOND WEEK OF
 NEAR EASTERN CONFERENCE

Lausanne Dec. 3.-(By the A. P.)-A review of the second week of the Near Eastern conference shows clearly that the negotiations have reached a point of danger; the question of capitulations, or special privileges enjoyed by foreigners in Turkey, which was taken up yester- day, may make or break the conference, and this is so because an adverse decision on capitulations may so wound Turkish national pride that the Turks may don their fezes and go back to Ansora.
 Everybody realizes tine extreme deli cacy and danger of the negotiations on i capitulationS The Turks have rejected all suggestions of the powers including the United States, that the special priv iIeges enjoyed by foreigners in the past shall be retaineC more especially any attempt to have foreign consular courts try cases involving foreign residents or foreign property.
 , Both Ismet Pasha and Dr. Riza Nur, pler ipotentiaries from Angora, informed the correspondent of The Associated Press today that they would resist any attempt to place Turkey on a lower in ternational standing than smaller and : less important states, like Greece and Mexico;" they would insist on complete administrative Independence.
 . powers, including the United States, are thinking of substituting Judicial guaran- tees for the hateful expression 'eapitu-
 lations' Insofar as foreign tribunals
 are concerned this Rill not do; it means the same thing under, a different name
 And we object to a transitOry perioe
 whereby Turkey would be supposed grad
 ually to enaancipate herself from the 5aii' cient regime of capitulations. We want
 complete freedom -noTr,i's ~s- s-e-a { The leading European powers have re ceived important help from Japan 1T
 struggle to keep the foreign courts 1T Turkey. Japan suffered the same hu
 initiation as Turkey, and sympathize.
 with the Turkish attitude. But BaroI
 Hayashi~ has made the point that it tool Japan two decades to- establish a sys
 tenn of jurisprudence which satisfied tn
 foreign powers and fSally induced then
 definitely to abolish the foreign tribun al provision. Japan has therefore urget
 Turkey to be patient. -
 The Turks argue that complete admin istrative sovereignty is perhaps the mos
 solemn article of the new Ottoman na tional pact. A prominent Turk said:
 If Americans and other foreigner
 do not like to be under the authority Q our Turkish courts, let them stay ava from Turkey. If Turk were arrested i New York he would be tried before a American court and not murmur. Tn
 same situation should exist in Turkey.
 The Turkish position is weakened b the fact that complete unity of front b the great powers has been erecte 7 against the Turks on this problem How ever, Russia is expected to side with he ally. Turkey.
 Another equalization difficulty ncs .
 fixing the customs tariff. The power 1 l won't permit Turkey to increase he , tariff from II to Is per cent, but tt f Ottoman state wants complete freedol , to make it's own tariff schedule. IT I present schedule is practically prohibi . i've for the great bulk of British an s French goods. It remains to be see f whether the threat of foreign powers f expend no capital in Turkey will indut e l the Turks to change their recalcitrant a . t:tude. i In an attempt to give public strengt { to their position the Turkish delegat v have widely distributed a pamphlet wri
 ten by, Ahmed Rustem Bey, former Fur ;sh ambassador at Washington in Whi. b he warns the world that modern Turk, : will never submit to having foreigne s disregard Turkish law while living ( Turkish soil. He wonders whether En
 land and the United States "whose ct
 ical pride is strengthened by religioi N prejudice will ever permit Turkey N enter the sacred circle of the occident [, footing of fraternal equality"