The Arvada enterprise., 1922-09-28
Mustapha KemaI Pasha Holds
the Key to the Situation in
the Near East.
ALLIES PLAN A CONFERENCE
viii Not Permit Russia to 6s Repre-
ssntsd British Public Protest
Against War-Denus Bill Killed
BY prssidsnt's vsto-TarIm
Measure Now Law.
sy EDWARD W. pIckARp

By EDWARD W. PickARo
WHETHER or not there shall be
w another great war In the Near
East depends on Mustapha Kemal
Pasha. The masterful leader Of the
Turkish nationalists. having expelled
the Greeks from Asia Minor. demands
that COnstantinople be restored to Tur.
key, that he be allowed to send troops
across the straits to recover eastern
Thrace from Greece. and . conference
to arrange for guarantees for the neu-
trality Of the Dardanelles and the Bos-
phorus be held with every country Dor
derinx on the Black sea. especially
Russia. represented.
To this England has formally replied
that Constantinople will not be given
up and that she will hght. alone II
necessary. to keep the Turk from in
vading the neutralized some that in
cludes that city and the straits.
Kemai's forces In AnatOlia are at
the very edge Of the gone. massed At
Ismld and Chanak. and already encoun.
ters between his patrols and British
outposta are reported. England II
hurrying reinforcelnents for her land
forces, and the entire British Attain
tic fleet has been ordered to the Dar.
daneiles. The domlnlOns have been
asked to be ready to send troops, and
New Zealand and Australia have prom
ised to do ~ II they are needed.
1t appears that In this conflict. II It
comes, Great Britnin must stand prac'
ticaily alone against the Turks %
fur ~ military operations are con.
Serned. France and Italy have de-
ciared they will have no part In It..
and the former has withdrawn to the
European side her troops In the neu
trail zone. Greece Is quite demoral.
lied and cannot be counted on to help
much. The little entente. which II de-
termine.i that neither Turkey nor Bul.
garia shall get eastern Thrace. would
be greatly hnmpered In war by mutual
jealOusIes and threats Of revolt In vn.
rious regions.
Kemal's demand concerning repre-
sentRtion In the peace conference met
with brusque reply when Marquis
Curzon. British foreign minister. and
Count Sforza. Italian ambassador to
France. met Premier POIncare to ar
rnnge for the parley. They announce
that France. Great Britain. Italy.
japan, Greece. Turkey. Jugo.Slavia
and Rumania would participate In the
conference 10 he held In Venice or
Rome. and Kemai's demand that
Russia be Included was M less In.
slstent thnn that Of the soviet govern.
ment, but General Dnnllor. chief of
the Russian general staff. denied the
current report that Russia would give
Keinni armed assistance. sayiRE :he
big soviet nrmy In the Caucasus was
there TO defend the frontiers and the
Bnku oil fields. Russia has no IN.
tcntion of sendin. troops I" Asia
Minor" General DnniloK said. nor II
there any truth In the rumor of Rus.
sian rclnforcements IN the Esthonin,.
Latvlnn or Polish frontiers. Russia
does not want fighting on my front.
md. besides. any military man knows
It would he foolish to begin anything
In September with winter imminent" p"
7 LLOYD GEORGES policy. stern nnd
II uncompromising. though support.
ed so far by most of his cabinet. may
hnvc to be modified. There is increas.
ipv nrotest hv thr nr,sss and t,pOnle Of
England against Great Rritnin's I'm.
dertakIng any new war. md the oppo.
sltion Of the trades unions md In the
great manufacturing ccntcrs Is espe.
chilly violent. There is n widespread
feeling that the Turks really nre en-.
titled TO reoossess Constantlnople %