The Topeka state journal., 1922-10-04
Turks Permit Peace Conference
To Make Progress.
Troops Ordered To Avoid Con.
tact With British.
GREEKS may CAUSE A SNAG
Colonel PIastiras Is Opposed
To Quitting Thrace.
Turks in Position To Attack If
Meet Breaks Up.
tBy the Associated press.l

London, Oct Am agreement has
been concluded between the allied
generals and Ismet Pasha, the Turk
ish nationalist representative. who
have been in consultation at Mudania
over the question of an armistice, says
an Exchange Telegraph message from
Constantinople today. 1t is expected,
it is added, the protocol will be signed
today.
By the Associated Press)
Constantinople, Oct 4.-The Turk
ish nationalists have accepted in prin-
ciple the allied note regarding the
near eastern settlement, it was an
nounced here this forenoon.
A communique issued by General
Harrington, the British commander in
chief, regarding the Mudania confer
ence which he is attending, says the
conference is proceeding satisfactorily
and that Ismet Pasha, the nationalist
representative, has reissued orders to
the nationalist troops to avoid all con-.
tact with the British.
Russia Looms Up.
Russia loomed on the horizon to-
day for the first time as likely to prove
an important figure in the settlement
of the Turkish problem. The nego-
tiations at Mudania have brought to
light the fact that Mustapha Kemal
Pasha advisers are urging him to OBJ
tain from the allies pledges for even
of the so-called national pact, includ-
ing control of the straits and modifi-
cation or annulment of the capitula-
tions.
Should he succeed in this, it is said
he will at the same time attempt to
abrogate the treaty made with the
soviet foreign minister, NJ. Tchitcher-
in, in Moscow on March 16, 1921,
which permits the soviet and the
Black sea countries to share in the
control of straits. Many of KemaFs s
advisers have no love for the Russo
Turk alliance and feel that it is time
to repudiate an agreement which has
ceased to be useful to the Kemalists.
ConstantinopIe, Oct. 4.-Progress is
being made towards the ground work
| for an armistice in the Near East,
according to word from Mudania to-
day. Only preliminary meeting was
| held Tuesday, but since then the DEL
| egates have had an opportunity TO
| talk informally.
Greeks May Cause Trouble.
| Obstacles are feared from the atti-
| tude of Colonel Plastiras of the Greek
armv. who has been instructed by the
provisional government at Athens to
object to any proposals calling for the
withdrawal of Greek troops from
Thrace.
The chief anxiety among the allied
officials here is that the conference
down, allowing the Turks to swarm
across the Bosphorus into Europe be-
| fore they can be stopped. However, so
far as known, the Turks have not con-
centrated to any extent along the Bos-
| phorus. Their chief concentration is
now south of Ismid, below CONSTANT
nople, just outside of the neutral zone.
| General Pelle, French high commits
sioner, believes that the chances for
peace are good. He bases his opti-
mism on the withdrawal of the Turks
from the strong positions they previ-
ously held in the neutral zone south
| of the Dardanelles.
| The British are in a conciliatory
mood and Gen. Sir Charles Harrington,
British representative at Mudan1a, is
reported to be ready to offer conces-
sions to the Turks.
/ Document Is Missing.
/ (By the Associated Press.l
Athens, Oct. 4.-Constantine's act
of abdication has disappeared. The
document is said to have been seized
the deposed monarch IN an effort to
save him his throne. These officers
! believed, it is said, tnat the revolu-
t;onary troops would adhere to the old
king when they landed in Greece on
arriving from the Aegean islands,
where the revolution started
Time Extension at Smyrna.
! tBy the Associated PressJ
Smyrna, Oct 4-The local Turkish
authorities have extended the time
limit of the evacuation of the Chris
tian refugees from Smyrna to October
Is, owing to the discovery in the
persons who had been unable to leave
under the proyfsions of the original