The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-10-06
WAR CLOUD is
AGAIN PRESENT
AS MEET FAILS
Break Came When Turks De.
manded Thrace at Once.
France Throws BombsheH by
Supporting Claim.
new CRISIS NOW PREVAILS
British Hope Is in New Nego.
tiatiOnS With France.
Allied Leaders Plan To Return
to Mudania Today.
Break Came When Turks De-
manded Thrace at Once.
France Throws BombsheH by
Supporting Claim.
NEW CRISIS NOW PREVAILS
British Hope Is in New Nego.
tiatiOns With France.
BULLETIN,


London, Oct. 6 (s p. m.).-Turkish
Nationalist cavalry has begun to in
wade the neutral zone in the area of
the Ismid peninsula. south of Con-
stantinople, according to Central
News dispatch from Constantinople
today. The Kemalists are said to be
concentrating in the Ismid zone.
CBy the Associated Press.)
Constantinople, Oct. 6.-After con-
ferring for most of the night with the
high commissioners and military ex-
perts here the allied generals this
morning prepared to leave again for
armistice conference.
(By the Associated Press)
London. Oct. 6.-The Mudania con-
ference is not ended, it was officially
stated at the conclusion of the British
cabinet meeting this morning, but IL
is deadlocked, and cannot be resumed
Before the British and French dele
gate have conferred over the situa-
ton.
Lord Curzon, the British foreign
secretary, will leave Immediately for
Paris to see Premier Poincare.
A new crisis has arisen in the near
eastern situation which had seemed
on a fair way to settlement.
The armistice conference of allies,
Greek and Turkish military leaders at
Mudania was adjourned suddenly yes
terday after a dramatic passage in
which Ismet Pasha, representing the
Angora government. demanded that
the Turks be allowed to occupy east
ern Thrace as a precedent to any peace
conference.
1859 Take 1t BY Force.
Isnet Pasha told the allied generals
that if the Turks could not have
Thraee peacefully I'VE have the means
| to enforce our determination" Earlier
! in the day the Greek delegates had de-
clarsd in no less certain terms their
readiness to fight, If necessary, to re-
| tain the province.
That the Turkish demand had been
| duly weighed and calculated is evil
| denced by the almost simultaneous re-
ceipt of an Angora dispatch quoting
| Mustapha Kemal Pasha as declaring
! before the National assembly:
The evacuation and surrender of
Thrace must occur Immediately, espe-
cially as since the Greek revolution.
| the Moslem subjects are in danger"
France Supports Turks.
1smet Pasha's bombshell was fol-
lowed by another when the French
| delegates announced they were In
structed to support the Turkish de-
1 mand. This created q definite split
with the Turks and French opposed to
the British and Italians, the latter
holding that evacuation of Thrace by
the Greeks and re-occupation by the
| Turks should follow and not precede
/ the peace conference.
The allied generals thereupon ad-
| journed the meeting and left for Con-
stantinople to consult with the high
| commissioners and the British and
Italians to ask definite instructions
from their home governments, with
| the understanding that a further
meeting would follow their receipt.
| Cabinet In Hurried Meet.
| The message from Brig. Gen. Sir
| Charles Harrington caused immediate
action in Downing street. The cabinet
| ministers were hurriedly summoned by
telephone and special messengers. and
| went into a session which did not
break up until early this morning.
General Harington's message was
| garbled in transmission and 1t was
thought advisable to wait for a repeti-
tion before taking any decision. Lon
don newspapers this morning appear
| without any of the details of the con-
flict at Mudania which are known in
the United States thru dispatches TO
the Associated Press. The British
press is being badly served in CONTAIN
tinople where. according to the Daily
Telegraph's diplomatic expert, the
British military authorities have estab-
lished a most stringent censorship.
Information Is Meager.
On the basis of such meager in
formation as they possess, the papers
comment rather lugubriously upon the
situation as revealed by the temporary
halt of the conference.
The Turkish reply to the allies in
vitation TO peace conference, which
was received here yesterday. is com
Iniented on by only one section of ths
press. The Times sees in the reply
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