The New York herald., 1922-12-02
TURKS MAKE ALLIES
CONSENT TO EXODUS
OF 100000 GREEKS
Hint of Massacre Back of
the Extension of Time
Limit Two Weeks.
WILL BAR MINORITIES
Prepare to Insist Only Own
Nationals Shall Reside
in Turkey.
CONFERENCE MAY RECESS
Expected to Adjourn About
Dec. Is Until Latter Part
of January.
CONFERENCE MAY RECESS
BY LAURENCE HILLS.

BY LAURENCE HILLS.
Special Gable to THE NEW YORK HymArp.
Copyright. 1922, 6y THE NEw YORK HERALD.
LAUSANNE. Dec. 1.-The Christian
nations of western Europe were put in
a humiliatirg position to-day in hav-
Ing to sit quiet and accept probably
the worst compulsory exodus OF his
tory. This developed in discussion
with the Turks of the Turkish COM
pulsion order against every Greek,
which will have resulted in the re-
moval from Turkey of nearly 100000
Ottoman Greeks since the beginning
of the war.
Most Of these are out. OF Turkey.
There are. however. between 100000
and 100000 Greeks still in Asia Minor
who were ordered out by November
go. Ismet Pasha consented to-day to
extend this order TO December 10.
after which. he said. he could not be
responsible for their safety.
Behind this concession there ap-
peared a threat of massacres unless
the Allies could get the Greeks out.
How to get them out will occupy a
new subcommission appointed to-day.
The Turks asked that the order cover
300,0 900 Greeks still in Constantinople,
but the Allies are pleading with them
10 allow these Greeks to stay while,
alleging that their removal will cripple
Constantinople economically.
To BAR Christian Minorities.
Not for centuries has one nation de-
clared the expulsion OF every member
Of the defeated race from it's territory.
But the Turks showed to-day at the
peace table their determination that
their national boundaries hereafter Will
contain not a single Greek. They are
going much further than this. for, while
II was not officially discussed. they pro-
pose that the new Turkish nation shalt
contain no Christian minorities. The
question Of minorities, as THE New YORK
HERALD correspondent already has said,
Will be met by the Turks with the re-
5oinder that as there will be no more
minorities tn Turkey there Is no reason
to discuss them in the peace treaty.
The attitude OF the Turks already has
changed the plan of the European ma
tions for the conference Although they
are willing to concede the right Of the
Turk TO compel this tremendous exodus
they are unwilling to accept the Turks
demands on the three main issues here.
namely. freedom Of the straits the west
ern boundary involving Karagatch and
the Anatolian frontiers involving Mosul
and oil
The Turks seeing deadlock on these
points apparently are no, averse to de-
ferring them. The upshot OF private
consultations now going on Is that the
conference probably will take a recess
on or before December IL till the latter
part OF January, leaving these ques-
tions unsettled. but having by then, Il is
hoped, agreed to preliminary peace he
tween Turkey and Greece and having
also reached an accord or questions like
the exchange of prisoners, Christian
minorties. debts, capitulauons and the
Aegean isles.
The Turks will take back to Angora
views exchanged here on the straits
and Moslil questions, but without hav-
ing agreed TO anything proposed by the
Allies. Plans for such a recess have
come from the allied side. The Turks
want to consult their assembly. and
France and England are playing with
each other on repsrations. 1t is hoped,
incidentally. by the Turks II not by the
Russians, that the new crisis on repara-
tions Will split France and Great Britain
and put the Turks in stronger position
on Mosul and the straits.
The French are not so eager for an
adjustment as the British whose chief
/. considerations are the straits and Mosul.
The whole question, with Turkish irreg-
ulars already operating against the
Greeks In Western Thrace. Is whether
tho situation IN this part Of Europe, and
In Constantinople In particular, can he
stabilized during such recess. The
Allies apparently are willing TO take the
risk for political reasons.
soviess VIII Back the Turks.
The Russo-Turklsh bloc was empha-
sized here tonight when Immediately
after the arrival OF George Tchitcherin.
Soviet Foreign Minister. Isnnet Pasha
called upon the Russians and remained
In conference until late hour. Later
Tchtcherin said
Two highly important principles will
guide the Russian delegation during the
conference. one is seif-determination
and the other IL the necessity for peace
to the world. The first obviously APP
plies to the Turks as well as other ma
tons, and therefore the Russian deIega-
tlon here will demand full sovereignty
for the Turkish nation. AS regards the
second principle. we consider one OF the
essentials Of peace In the Near East is
that the straits he effectively closed TO
all warshps. These are the foundation
stones Of the Russian policy In Lau-
same"
The Bulgarians apparently went over
TO the Turks tonight when Premier
Stamboulisky declared that the Bulga-
rians would have nothing 70 do with any
Balkan bloc that insisted upon having
~ LII. A.aL. LII