Evening star., 1923-01-07
TURKS PUT ISSUE
! OF WAR OR PEACE
IN ALLIES HANDS
After Refusing All SuggeS-
tions on Courts, lShmet
PaSha Is Defiant.
CURZON RETORTS WITH
SETTLEMENT DEMAND
Lausanne Farley Adjourns Without
Accord and With No Date Set
for Next Session.
Er the Associated Press.

Tor Next OeSSlOn.
Er the Associated Press.
LAUSANNE, January 6.-Peace or
war was the grave Issue placed
sQuarely before the near eastern con-
ference today. Ismet Pasha for Tur-
key brought this issue concisely be-
fore the delegates, when, after re-
Susing all allied suggestions concern
ing special courts for foreigners in
Turkey, he declared solemnly:
"Gcntlemcn. the key to peace lies
in your hands"
Lord Curzon, accepting the chal-
lcngc rctortcd:
"If peace is to come at Lausanne.
it is essential that some arrangement
on the question Of foreign tribunals
Lc arrived at
He then added Significantly:
1--WE hope that time will soften the
Turkish attitude and that Turkey
will not maintain her position of to-
day
No Decision Reached.
The discussion took place before
the fun commission on capitulations,
which adjourned without reaching
any accord on the most vital question
on the Lausanne Agenda and with
out fixing a date for the next meet
ing The debate on capitulationS,
during which Ismet Pasha praised
tho American amba assador, Mr.. Child,
for his recent eloquent address" to
ha Of q
foreign judicial system, was dignified
throughout and marked by no evil
dence of i'll feeling. In this respect il
differed greatly from the morning
session, which took up the problem
Of providing national homo for the
Armenians.
Angry at the allies attempt even
70 bring the Armenian question into
the official discussion, Ria Nur Bey
the second Turkish delegate, delivered
u short but violent attack on the
allies. then brusquely marched out
of tho meeting hall.
Curzon Protests.
In consequence of this, Lord Cur
zon. NJ. Parrere and Marquis Di Gar
roni forwarded d strong letter of
protest to Ismet Pasha, requesting
the head of the Turkish delegation to
write some explanation OF his col
leagues conduct. Ria Nur Bey, who
usually says the caustic things for
the Turks when the Turks believe
they must be said, was not daunted
by the allied protest, but appeared
smilingly and gracious at the after
noon meeting when the fateful prob
lem Of capitulations was discussed /.
The Turkish delegation replied this
evening to the allied protest by de-
Tending Ria Nur Bey's procedure
The Turks assert that the Armenian
question was not on the conference
agenda. They seem determined not
to grant an Armenian national home,
but expressed the hope that todays
incident would not embitter the
Lausanne negotiations.
French and Italian circles tonight
arc pessimistic over the Turkish re-
fusal TO accept a provisional regime
of special tribunals for foreigners.
1t was declared by the French and
Italians that capitulations was one
question on which they would not
yield.
The unfortunate incident of the
morning, which followed the allies
request that Turkey give her atten-
tion, from the humanitarian point of
view, to the question of providing a
national home for the ArInenians, pro-
duced a bad impression. Ismet
Pashas dignif1ed rejection Of the
allies proposal on capitulations only
served to aggravate this impression.
Charge Intrigues,
Piza Nur refused to listen to the
suggestions regarding Armenia. and
accused the allies of intriguing with
the Armenians and Assyro -Chaldeans
during the great war. That is why
the allies felt morally bound to do
something for them.
In refusing to accept the transitory
period in which Turkey would permit
foreigners to be tried before Turkish
courts with foreign judges present on
the bench, Ismet Pasha declared that
this would be counter to Turkish
sovereignty. He went so far as to
say that this suggestion of the allies
was even worse for Turkey than the
old regime of capitulations or privi-
ieges for foreigners under which
cases were tried before consular
! courts.
J No country in the world, he pointed
out, permitted foreign magistrates to
administer justice, and the Turkish
judicial system offered ample protec-
MON to foreigners desirous of carrying
on business In Turkey. Turkey stood
ready to make separate agreements
with the various powers concerning
foreigners, with the understanding
that they be based on the kind of
stipulations agreed upon with other
nations.
May Leave Loophole.
Turkey, continued Ismet Pasha,
would permit all cases involving mar
riage or divorce to be tried in the
home countries of foreigners instead
of in Turkey, and in general was dis
posed to adopt detailed regulations
which would afford advantageous pro-
lection to foreign residents. The
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