Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-02-05
.ISHNET SAYS He WILL
PASS THE BUCK To
OTHERS AS He DEPARTS
Turkish-EngIish Armies Facing
Each Other Constitutes
Dangerous Menace
BRITISH DELEGATES LEAVE
Russian Alliance Now Suggested
AS Cause For Stand Taken
By Turks

LAUSANNE, Feb. 5.-(By the
Associated Press.) - Ismet Pasha,
head of the Turkish delegation, in
forms this correspondent today that
Turkey has no desire to resume hos
tilities with either Greece or Great
Britain as a result of the collapse
of the Near East conference, but he
emphasized that the Turkish Eng
lish armies are still facing each oth-
er in Asia Minor.
Ismet said the Turks would ask
the powers whether they consider the
negotiations officially at an end.
The impression prevailed among
conference delegates that Turkey
would not be informed officially ef
the termination of negotiations, mas
much as it is generally desired to
continue the Mudania armistice, thus
avoiding the possibility Of renewal
of war.
The European statesmen nave
failed to restore peace in the Near
East, and the conference called for
this purpose definitely collapsed last
night after desperate efforts to save
it-efforts which were continued up
to the very moment Lord Curzon's
train left.
Never in the history Of political
conferences were such amazing
scenes witnessed as marked yester-
days tragic ending of the negotia-
tions which ertended over almost 8
months. Practically the whole diplo-
matte world ran after Ismet Pasha.
head of the Turkish delegation, try
ing to induce him to sign the treaty,
but Mustapha Kemal's favorite gem
eral, with gentle smile, was immov-
able. He said mo" to all-Ameri-
cans, British, French and Italians.
The American representative, AM
bassador Child, Joseph C. Grew and
Rear Admiral Bristol, called upon
him after the break, in an endeavor
to save the conference, and Lord
Curzon delayed his departure for
half an hour in the hope that Ismet
Pasha would change his mind, but all
in vain.
The conference failed because the
Turks refused to accept the clauses
concerning the future economic re-
glmc IN Turkey, and to some extent,
because .4loy would not accept the
Allied formula for foreigners which
were to replace the existing extra
territorial privileges.
Briefly, the Turks wanted to strike
from the treaty all clauses binding
them to recognize contracts and con-
cesslons granted by the old Ottoman
empire. They maintained chat thew
should be left free to study chose
questions, and, if necessary, reopen
negotiations concerning them with
the interested countries and peoples.
They could not, they said, accept
the economic burden imposed upon
the new Angora government by the
old Turkish regime, which had hand
Gu ouC concession right and left in
the form of capitulations; they in
sisted that vast concessions hal been
granted without fair return and thew
wanted the right to revise all of
them.
The Turks agreed to formula
whereby foreign legal advisers would
De appointed to reframe the legal
code and be empowered to receive
complaints from foreigners that the
law was unjustly administered but
insisted that the advisers be selected
not by the Hague permanent conrt
OIL International Justice but bv mem
Cfai countries which had not partiei-
pated IN the great war. Thew abso-
luteiy declined to give the advisers
control over all arrests of foreion-
efs or domicilary searches, maintain
ing TINS was violation of their
sovereignty.