Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-12-30
WRECK Of EASTERN
PEACE CONF EREVCE:
FEARED BY EUROPE
Greeks Mobilize Troops to
Hold Thrace Against Tur-
key-0iI Fields Problem
Causes Crisis

LONDON, Dec. 29.-Britain rush
ed a fleet to Constantinople Thurs
day ''to influence the Turks toward
peace
The admiralty announced that Ad-
miral Brooks squadron was steam
ing from Malta, the British naval
base in the Mediterranean, full speed
for Constantinople.
This action was taken at time
| when the Turks at the Lausanne
| conference were defying the British,
and demanding that the rich Mosul
| oil basin be surrendered.
In announcing the fleet had been
dispatched, the admiralty stated 1t
was being sent as a precautionary
measure; "a sort of moral influence
| toward peace"
Led by the historic dreadnaught
Iron Duke as flagship, the fighting
vessels steamed away to the east.
Two other dreadnaughts followed
the Iron Duke and then came three
light cruisers, eleven destroyers, five
| submarines and a number of depot
ships.
TURKS HOLD OUT FOR
MOSUL OIL FIELDS
LAUSANNE, Dec. 29.-(By the
Associated Press).-The Near East
conference was faced with a serious
crisis today as the sharp and APP
parently irreconcilab1e conflict be-
tween the English and Turks over
the Mosul oil fields reached a deci-
sive stage.
Lord Curzon's statement that "the
turning point of the conference had
come" and that England would de-
cline to continue the Mosul contro-
versy was in direct conflict with Is
met Pasha's note asserting that the
Turkish people have decided to "em-
ploy to the last limit Of its forces
all means to obtain the return of
; Mosul to the motherland.
Between these two extremes there
is a gulf which seems likely to be
difficult, 1t not impossible, for the
conference to bridge.
Great uneasiness is manifest
throughout conference circles be-
cause Of the crisis, which, with the
unsettlement over the straits and
status of minorities, indicates that
the conference is fast approaching
a climax and that both sides are pre-
pairing for a final showdown.
This tendency was emphasized at
today's session of the commission on
capitulations, at which no progress
was made and after which some of
the allied delegates declared the con-
ference had reached deadlock
pending the arrival of fresh Turk
ish instructions from Angora.
At this meeting, a subcommittee.
presided over by Sir Horace Rum
bold, reported to the full commission
that it had ben found quite impossi-
BILE to reach an accord with Turkey,
which insisted upon trying foreign.
ers in the Turkish courts.
AS the allies could not accept this,
the sub-commission reported, the ne
| gotiations had failed.
Richard Washburn Child, chief
American spokesman, joined with the
heads of the allied delegations at
todays meeting of the capitulations
commission of the Near East confer
ence in declaring that some guaran-
| tees must be given by Turkey to re-
place the capitulations or extra ter
ritorial rights for foreigners which
tn eKemalists have declared abol.
| ished ;
GREEKS PREPARE TROOPS
FOR WAR ON TURKS
! ATHENS, Dec. 29.-The Greek
government today planned to rush
100000 troops to eastern Thrace to
| fight the Turks in event of a break
down of the Lausanne conference.
General Plastiras is to be sent to
| the frontier next week.