The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-09-30
TURKISH TROOPS
SCREEN BRITISH
ARMY FOR DRIVE
Are Making Concentrations
and RecOnnOitering.
Rupture Between Forces Is Ex-
pected at Any Hour.
WAR Time CENSORSHIP ON
Only by a Miracle Can War
With Turks Be Averted.
Peace Never Existed; No Dec
Iaration Necessary.
WAR TINE CENSORSHIP ON
(By the Associated PressJ

Constantinople, Sept. 3d.
British officials admit that the
Chanak situation is growing
more critical and that the hopes
for an anicable settlement are
waning.
General Harrington seemed to
have exhausted his peaceful
overtures, and many fear that
military action will follow.
A rupture between the OPP
posing forces, it is thought in
military quarters, is likely to be
preciDitated at any hour unless
the Turks withdraw from the
neutral zone.
In Close Contact.
The Turkish troops continue to
close contact with the British.
They have formed a screen around
the British forces behind which they
are making concentrations and recon-
noitering.
The British have established a war
time censorship. Hereafter the men
ton of names of regiments. their
strength and destinations is pro-
hibited.
KemaI Kisses Envoy.
When NJ Franklin Bouillon, the
French envoy arrived at Smyrna, he
was met in the harbor by Mustapha
kemal Pasha, who saluted him and
kissed him on both checks.
Advices from Adana yesterday said
Mustapha Kemal and NJ. Franklin
Bouillon were leaving for Angora. The
French envoy is to urge upon the
4 Turkish nationalist chieftain the ne
eff of mi i Acfs
Minor until peace terms are decided
upon, meanwhile avoiding a clash with
the British.
British Infantry Lands
Constantinople, Sept 3e.-Large
forces of British infantry have been
landed here from the transatlantic
liner Glengor1n Castle. These soldiers
Asiatic side of the Bosphorus which
the British will defend in the event
the Turkish nationalist army at Ismid
begins a movement toward Constanti-
nople.
France Back of Decision.
Paris. Sept sO;--France stands
firmly by her decision taken with
England and Italy last Saturday. to
insist upon Turkish recognition of
the neutrality of the zones of the
straits, and while there is no ques-
tion at the moment of military force
10 DaCk up TINS the Frencn
government will exert it's fullest in
fluence to induce the Turks to with
draw.
(By the Associated Press.J
London. Sept. 3O.-The gravely de-
spondent view held in official quar-
ters here regarding the prospect OF
avoiding war with the Turks is shared
in allied military circles in CONSTANT
nople, according to dispatches from
the eastern capital to the Associated
I Press.
Mustapha kemal Pasha's require
ment that the British withdraw their
troops from Asia Minor as a condition
precedent to 4 limited retreat of the
Ottoman forces from the neutral zone
of the straits is looked upon by local
military opinion as closing the door to
pacific settlement of the present dis
pute.
Responsibility in Leaders.
Whether this is the final view OF
the responsible military heads does
not appear. Huge responsibility rests
with the latter and their political col
leagues. How and when the attempt
to enforce the governments demand
for the withdrawal of the Kemalists
IS to be made now lies with Brig. Gen
Sir Charles Harrington and Vice Ad-
miral Sir Csmond Brock. commander
OF the British military and naval
forces in the Near East. and Sir
Horace Rumbold. British high COM