Sioux County pioneer., 1922-10-05
Mustapha Renal Pasha Holds
the Key to the Situation in
the Near East.
ALLIES pLAtI 4 C33...EE CONFERENCE EialEiA!5E
Will Not Permit Russia to Be Repre-.
sented British Public Protest
Against War-Ronus Bill Killed
by Presidents Hsio-Tariff
M=ssur2 Now Law.
BY EDWARD w. pIcKARD

WJHErIlEK or not there shall be
w another great war in the Near
East depends on Mustapha Kemai
Pasha. The masterful leader Of the
Turkish nationaIists, having expelled
the Greeks from Asia Minor, demands
that Constantinople be restored to Tur-
key, that he be allowed to send TROOPS
across the straits to recover easter
Thrace from Greece, and conferel't'"
to arrange for guarantees for the n"ii-
trality of the Dardanelles and the Bos.
phorus be held with every country Dor
dering ON the Black sea, especially
Russia, represented.
To this England has formally replied
that Constantinople will not be given
up and that she will fight, alone ii,
necessary, to keep the Turk from in
vading the neutraliZed zone that in
cludes that city and the straits.
Kemars forces in Anatolia are at
the very edge of the zone. massed at
Ismid and Chanak, and already encoun-
tiers between his patrols and British
outposts are reported. England is
hurrying reinforcements for her land
forces, and the entire British Allan
tic fleet has been ortlered to the Oar
danelles The dominiOns have been
asked to he ready to send troops, and
New Zealand and Australia have prom
Used to do so if they are needed.
1t appears that in this conflict. If 1t
comes. Great Britain must stand prac-
tically alone against tile Turks so
far as military operations are con-
cerned. France and Italy have de-
clared they will have no part in It.,
and the former has withdrawn to the
European side '!er troops in the neu.
trail zone Greece is quite demOral-
ized and cnnno, be counted on to help
much Tho Eft" ,ntente, which is de-
terminm' Heat neither Turkey nor Bull
Rarin she'll get eastern Thrace. would
be greatly IA nered in war by mutual
jealr''- 80 threats of revolt in va
rioun
J. a2d concerning repre-
ser >eace conference met
with " scHc reply when Marquis
Crt&. 4fts., foreign minister. and
Cn,ns StGrza. italian ambassador to
France. net Premier Poincare to ar
aaM@e for the parley. They announce
that France, Great Britain, Italy,
JaIan, Greece. Turkey, Jugo-Slavia
and Eumania would participate in the
conference to be held in Venice or
ionle. and Kemal's demand that
Russia be included was no less in
sistent than that of the soviet govern
ment but General Daniloff, chief OF
the Russian general staff, denied thu
current report that Russia would give
Kemal armed assistance, saying the
big soviet army in the Caucasus was
there to defend the frontiers and the
Baln oil fields Russia has no in
tentlon of sending troops to Asia
Minor General Daniloff said. NOR Ii
there any truth in the rumor of Rus
sian reinforcements on the Esthoniah
Latvian or Poliss frontiers. Russis
does not want fighting on any front
and. besides. any military man know!
1t would he foolish to begin anything
in September with winter imminent
+ LLOYD GEORGES policy, stern an,
IL incorporating. though support
ed SO far by most of his cabinet, maj
have to be modified. There is increas
ing protest by the press and people o
England againa Great Britain's uD
dertaking any new war. and the oppo
sItinr Of the trndes unions and in tn
ss.sssst !,nanHrartrrlng ce,,ters ls espe
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