New-York tribune., 1922-11-15
Britain Agrees
Ioparis parIey
On Near East
snscs pasiaa Also on Way
20 Meet poincares French
Say They Will Make No
Concessions TO the Turks
Christians Flee Regions
Population in Panicky Flight
From Asia Minor; Roads
Choked Toward Black Sea
By Wilbur Forrest


Copyright tesa. Tew York Tribune Ire.
PARIS. Nov. 14.--Great Britain has
accepted The French proposal to held
Allied conversations preliminary to the
Lausanne Near-East Conference 1T
Paris this week end, instead of st Lon
don during raidweek. as the English
tirst suggested. Lord Curxon will rep
resent Great Britain. Lord HardiHge,
he British Ambassador here, called at
The Quai d'orsay to-day, for the second
sime In twenty-four hours, in order TO
announce this acceptance.
From sources close 10 Premier Poin-
care 1t wag later announced that Ii
fsnst Pasha, head of the Turkish Ma
tionalist Lausanne delegation, when he
arrives here tomorrow in answer TO
sae French Premier's invitation to hold
areliminary conversations, expects to
extract pledge from France of sps-
ciaI support for kngora's aspirations
az the conference, he will be sadly dis
liusioned. French officials at the same
time ridicuied the suspicion cursent Ia
scrne circles here that Great Britain
intends on Saturday to force France
into d position which would compro-
mise the success of the Lausanne
gathering, thus forcing G resumption
Of warfare In the Near East with the
idea OF adding the strait of the Oar
daneiles. along with Malta and Gibrsl-
tar, TO British possessions.
Ultersor Motives Denied
0ficiais here decline to ascribe any
uiterier motives to the stand Of tho
Benar Law government, whereas six
weeks ago they would not have hesi~
tated to suspect almost any hidden
purpose of the Lloyd George regime.
The absence of Lloyd George from
European affairs, it is said in high
circles tonight, now makes 1t certain
that Premier Poincare's reception Of
Iamet Pasha tomorrow will be both
formal and brief.
A memorandum outlining Premier
Deuar Laws entire view Of the Near
EsHteyn situation is reported TO have
been forwarded from London to-day
This had not reached the Quai d'OYsa
tonight. French officials express firm
conviction, however, that 1t contains
nothing about which there could be
vital disagreement between the two
countries, and hence tonight they are
fcrwaraing their plans for the meeting
Of the Allies here Saturday, at which
the Italians will be represented, and
for ssu dispatch OF the French delega-
tion so Lausanne Monday.
That the British are not going Ia
Switzerland unless they are assured In
ADVANCE that the Allies are agreed as tc
the main course of action to be pur-
sued There, is a fact we'll understood
in French official quarters. . French
Official feeling Ia announced as being
symE#thetie to this attitude, and the
French are pointing their course TO-
ward Saturdays meeting from this
angle. Meanwhile minor points will
be negotiated between the two coun-
tries by wire, it Is said. This prob
ably means that Premier Poincare'e .
conversation with Ismet tomorrow will
be limited to reminding the latter that
France is already pledged to military
cooperation with the other Allies In
the event of Turkish violation OF the
scrnH of the Mudania armistice, and
20 the issuance of warning to the
Turkish envoy in accordance.
News reaching here from Constan-
tinople to-day appears better, follow.
ing the talk of the Allied High Com.
nissioners with Rafet Pasha, Angora's
sc-called governor of the capital.
The Kemalist order for the evacua.
ton Of Asia Minor by all Christian
peoples within thirty days continues