The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-11-19
TURKEY THREATENS ID CROSS RUb|CON
 TOOBTA|ND DESIRES
America Will Watch Closely Developments at Meeting of European Powers.
 New Frontiers
By Associated, Press

Lausanne. Switzerland. November ls.--Another attempt to stabilize the peace of Europe will be undertaken Monday with the Inauguration here of the Near East conference at tended by practically all the powers of western and southern Europe
 Summoned to establish peace be- tween victorious Turkey and de-. feated Greece, the conference possess ses vastly more importance.
 It must settle the problems that have grown out of the Turks re- turn to the continent of Europe from which they were expelled after the great war as well as the all domi- nsnt question of the freedom of the pardanelles, in which America has a natural interest.
 The conference must lay down Tur- keys new frontiers and take up the delicate question of Turkeys capitu- lations. or concessions. whereby for eigners in Turkey. like those living in China. have been exempt from Turkish law and free from taxation. Turkey demands freedom from these restrictions and clamors for national administrative liberty.
 American Observers Present
 Without departing from her policy of non-intervention in European politics. the United States has desig- Eated three observers: Richard washburn Child, American ambas- sador to Italy; Joseph C. Grew, min lister to Switzerland and Rear Ad- riraI Mark l.. Britol, official Amer ican representative at Constantinople.
 a London pnTiS Constantinople and Athens have de- monstrated the delicate nature of relations between England and France concerning this Near East tangle with statesmen of each of these countries striving for unity of front" which will safeguard their separate national aspirations as re- gards commerce and their various special positions
 Future of Europe Concerned
 The prediction is freely made here that the Lausanne conference will have a weighty bearing on the future amity and harmonious. cooperation between England and France In Eu- ropean affairs
 The fascisti of Italy, dedicated to a firmer foreign policy, will demand equality of treatment and apparently strong in their determination to de- nounce the Italian Grecian treaty Of 1920, whereby Italy agreed to cede to Greece the Dodecanese islands in the Aegean.
 Bolshevik Russia has been invited to attend the Dardanelles discussion but not the main conference which will take up revision of the Sevres treaty.
 Bulgaria will insist on an outlet in the Agean at Dedeaghatch, and Jurgoslavia will undoubtedly demand assurances of commercial privileges at Saloniki
 Turks Threaten War
 Most of the neutral European etates have asked permission to at tend the meetings.
 The eve of the conference finds tho wave of extreme nationalistic exhala- ton prevailing in Turkey frankly voiced by the Turkish delegates. who declare that unless they obtain satis- factory terms at Lausanne they stand ready. like Caesar to cross the Rubicon," intimating that their armies will take by force what they cannot get by peace.
 Greece, defeated and almost bank rupt, stands out as the pathetic fig ure of tho conference and the great