Evening star., 1922-01-03
TURKS MAKING BID !.
FOR A|D0F BRITAIN 5.
English Ex-0fficers Go to
Anat0Iia to Meet Henchman
of Mustapha KemaI.
DEMANDS ARE REPEATED
Threats Made to Abandon Con.
stantinople and Join Forces
With Soviet,
BY CONsTANTINE BROWN,


(Sy Cable to The Star and the Chicago Daily
News Copyright. 1922.
coNSTANTINOPLE, Turkey, De-
cember Il (by courier to London,
January 3).-The four British ex-offi-
Se,s Sas.. who went to Anatolia to meet
Ksiet Pasha, one of Mustapha
Renal Pasha's henchmen. have re-
turned to Constantinople The Brit
Ism high commission disclain,s any
connection with these men. who 1t is
officially stated, went to Anatolia in
order to obtain timber concessions
Tor themselves. II Is obvious. how
ever. from the reception given them
ny the Turkish authorities and the
TACT that Refet Pasha travelled sew
eral hundred miles over the rough
AnatoIlan roads to meet them that
the officers were provided with suf-
ncientiy authoritative credentials to
convince kcmal Pasha that 1t was
worth his while to talk to them.
Turkish Demands Reiterated,
The meeting took place at Ir-DolI,
several days. at the end OF W. ,ch the
Eritlshers returned to Constantino-
pie, one member proceeding: i,..C,a-
alately to London to submi. to the
British government the Turkish
views on restoring peace in the near
east. Refet Pasha reiterated the
turkish demands regarding SMYRNA
and Thrace. but put them in an
entirely new light. He wanted the
delegates to convey to the British
cabinet the necessity of Britain's Civ
ing up Greece and assisting Turkey
10 become a strong country once
more.
policy toward Turkey" he said. was
due mainly to the fact that Britain
wanted buffer state against the
Eussian menace This policy was
abandoned at the beginning of the
stantinople to Russis and conse-
auently we Joined Germany. Both
were wrong and should cali it even
and forget. The British policy of
supporting the Greeks against us
harms British interests as much as
ours. Britain needs Mesopotamia for
corn, cotton and oil and to protect
India against the Slav menace She
is unable to keep that country with
out our support, for the Slav danger
IS again threatening the worlds
peace.
Follow Czarist Policy.
THE soviets are following closely
the czarist policy of trying to find a
way 10 the Persian gulf and India.
We are closely connected with the
soviets and are able to watch their
country. We are weak. hut we are
sun able TO harm the British empire
by playing the soviet game and
using our influence with the Mussul-
mans. You are now powerless, for
YOUR main inducement with the Mus
sulman leaders has lost its power.
Money no longer possesses the same
influence as in the past and the
greater part of the gold your govern
ment spent in raising the Kurds
a fNyr
treasury by the Kurdish leaders. We
fail to see how Britain can avert the
Slav danger without our help
Turkish interests. however. clash
with Russian aims. for we fully
realize that eventually we will be
swallowed by the surrounding S,ays.
Britain is supporting Greece without
realizing that that country is too
weak to resist the Slav pressure. In
the Balkans the S!avs are active in
forming slav confederation. Despite
the apparent Bulsarian-Serbi en-
nifty we expect to see a Jugo-Slav-
Bulgarian union in less than five
years. After this is accomplished
Greece will be unable to hold Saloniki
and Dedeagatch. Those outlets to the
garians and Serbians. who will seize
them as soon as they can.
Thrace Must BE Returned.
This would bring the Slavs to
the gates OF Constantinople To pro-
tect the city Thrace must be returned
to Turkey. for the Martha river is the
only good strategic defense o. 1on
stantiEopie. Er.taiu's natural defense
against tho Sla.s in Europe IS Goa
stantiEople. which arot be p"o-
tected without its best outpost-Ad-
rianople. Smyrna was never Greek
and if Britain refuses to help US we, |
after abandoning Constantinople to