Sioux County pioneer., 1922-12-14

fcrson Caffery the American charge
d'affaires in Athens, on his personal
account. advised against Il.
E. King George did not approve Of the
executions and asked permission to
leave the country Instead, he was
held under strict surveillance in the
royal palace just outside of Athens.
EXACTLY what is going on in the
II Lausanne conference is being
carefully concealed. the official COM
muniques being brief statements from
which the important facts are all omit
ted: The correspondents, reduced to
conjecture, send out many stories Of
dissension, and there Is good reason 10
believe some Of these are based on
mittees handling the questions Of the
frontiers of Turkey and the possession
of the N1osul oil fields are making IT.
tie progress. The Turks, refusing to
recognize the Mudros armistice of
1918. decline to accept responsibility
for the cost Of maintaining allied
troops In ConstantinOnle. which s0Eae
weeks ago reached total of half a
billion dollars. They also insist they
are the owners Of the Mosul oil fields,
which are in the Mesopotamian terri
tory inundated to Britain. This oil
question is perhaps the most trouble
some one the conference has to deal
with. It is reported the English may
finally consent to throw over Feisal
and his kingdom of Iraq and let Tur-
key have the territory, provided they
are assured Of concessions for the de-
velopment of the Oil fields. Several
other European nations claim a share,
however, and Americans have large in
! terests in the region, which Messrs.
| Child and Grew are trying to safe
guard by insisting on the open door.
The Angoya government seems rather
partial to the Americans in this mat
ter. It also is desirous that the Amer
ican schools and colleges shall continue
in operation in Turkey.
Eastern Thrace and AdrianOple have
been turned over to the Turks and
they are with difficulty being held back
; from crossing the Martha river and
/ seizing Karagatch. which they claim
becauseoit is the terminus of the rail-
road from Constantinople. The Greeks
lave two army corps posted along the
western bank Of the river.
THERE were important develop
1 ments in Paris last week concern
i:ls thes possible occupation of the
RhineIand by the French when the ex-
lected default in reparations payments
by the Germans comes in January. Ca.
bles from Paris almost fatty asserted
that, the government had completed its
arrangements for such action, includ-
ing plans for both military and civil
administration Of the territory to be
seized, and 1t was assumed that there
would be no objection by Great Brit
ain, since France was supporting the
British program in relation to the Near
East. On Wednesday. however, Pre-
mier POincare cabled to Ambassador
Jusserand in Washington directions to
state that there was not the Slightest
foundation in fact for the report that
the French government was contem.
plating a forcible entry into the Ruhr.
Chancellor Cuno had notified the al.
!, lies that his government fully In
dorsed the "final'' demand Of Doctor
Wirth for moratorium OF three or
four years on all reparations payments
and a huge International loan. Berlin
was greatly disturbed BY the reports 1''ts'
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