Free trader-journal and Ottawa fair dealer. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1920-1927, 1922-12-28
BRITISH SET FOOT.
DOWN ON MOSLEMS;
FARLEY AT CRISIS
NEAR EAST CONFERENCE AGAIN
ON VERGE OF COLLAPSE AS RE-
SUIT or ENGLISH REFUSAL TO
SURRENDER OIL RIGHTS.

Lausanne Dec. 2S.--(By the Asso'
ciated Press.)-Creat uneasiness is
spreading throughout near east con
ference circles as the time approaches
when there must be a final reckoning
on all important questions between
? the Turks and the allied powers.
Lord Curzon's positive announce.
ment today that Great Britain will
not cede Mosul to Turkey and does
not propose to discuss that question
further was the forerunner of less
positive statements from the other
delegations on various questions which
indicate that the conference is reach
ing climax and that preparations
are under way for a final showing of
strength. 4
The subcommissions are making
little progress. RIA Muir Bey was
less truculent today in the. subcom'
mission on minorities, but the Christ
mas rest apparently did not improve
the temper of the Turks materially,
and the allied delegations are clearly
becoming less tractable in prepare
ton for final and complete state.
1ment OF the maximum. they will give
= up.
The indications are that this final
showdown will come early next week
and the contending parties are so far
apart ON rapHulations, control OF the
straits. and the right of minorities
that the outcome is uncertain. II is
clear that further meetings of the
commission and subcommissions will
be Of, little use.
Seemingly everyone is talked out
and every foot of ground between
Mt. Ararat and the Garden of Eden
has been trayersed.
Old Testament history has been re-
vived from Genesis to Malachi poets
and historians, soothsayers who
trace their ancestry directly back
to Adam and Eve have presented
their claims: ecolesiastics, soldiers
and statesmen OF many races, lam
guages and religions have been heard |
The hopper is filled to overlooking
and now the mill is starting to grind /
kurds, Arabs. Assyro- Chaldeans.l
Armenians, Greeks, Turks, Bulgar-
ians and Russian are watching with
tense interest as the allied leaders
meet daily in private conferences
which are really deciding what the
map OF Asia Minor shall be. Curzon,
Marquis Di Garroni and Mr.. Barrere
had a long discussion today on capt.
ulations, which. after the Mosul oil
fields. offer the most stubborn ques-
ton for settlement.
+ The three leaders made no an. |
nounce.nent as to what decision had
been reached although they have re-
peatedly made it clear that the invi.
ting Rewers cannot consent to have
foreigners in Turkey tried by Turkish
courts without come sort of foreign
supervision.
The Turks are insistent upon this
point and will not even consent to
have a probationary period fixed so
that their courts may be brought up
TO eastern standards. Mainline Con-
stantinople Us becoming more unset
tied every day and Greece and Bull
garia are foundering along under the
burden of the miserable refugees,
who dread a resumption of hostiIities
between Greece and Turkey.
lHe dllied ueiesdleS returned THIS
evening plainly discouraged after sew.
eral hours discussion with the Turks
on economic copitulations. The Turks
made 1t clear that they wanted the
right to give preferential treatment
to their own manufactures in the mat
ter oil taxation and justified their at
titude by saying that it was neces-
sary to protect Turkish industries. In
other words, foreigners would not
only lose their preferential economic
position, which they are ready to lose
in the interest of equity. but must
meet Turkish competition. which /
would be strengthened by exemption
from certain taxes imposed on for /
eigners.