The Omaha morning bee. [volume] (Omaha [Neb.]) 1922-1927, 1923-04-11
Mosul Oil
Puts us. in
WorldWhirl
Turk Approval of Chester
Commission Means Nation
Must Back Open Door Pol
icy in Development.
Conferences Begin Today
By George f. Authier.
Washington Correspondent The Omaha Bee


Washington, April 10.-Confirma-
tion of the Chester concession in Tur-
key, reported in Associated Press dis
patches from Angora today, brings the
United States squarely up against the
possibility of complications in worl1
politics inveigned against by the ire
conciiables opposed to American par
ticipation in the international world
court
While no official confirmation had
l.n received today either by the
\Scate department or by the Chester
concessionnaires. Allen L. Dulles,
chief of the near east division of the
State department, has received copy
If the modified concession which the
Angora government has been eonsid-
ering covering $50 pages. The authen-
ticity of the report OF the parl.am "a
tary approval is not doubted.
Action by the Turkish government
furnishes the approaching Near East
conference with a fait accompl in
which the United States is committed
to the protection of the rights of its
nationals under the theory of the open
door everywhere.
Conferences Start.
Gea. George ". Gocthals. builder
Of the Panama canal. who with Ad
miral Rousseau. his assistant in the
canal project. are the leading figures
in the Chester concession, is on his
way to Washington tonight. Tomor-
row, conferences will be commenced
in which General Goethals as the rep
resentative of the Ottoman-American
Development company, the holding
company of the concessionnaires, will
take up the matter of the concession
with State department officials and
with other representatives of the con-
Germ.
These conferences will be prelimi-
nary to early commencement upon the
contracts involved. These involve the
/ building Of approximately 200 miles
of railroad in Anatolia, the construc-
ton of ports and harbors, the devei-
cpment OF important mining conoes-
sions. which. include the Arghana
copper mines. which have been
worked for ! 900 years. development
.kstshe Mosul oil fields, the building of
national capital at Angora on the
plans Of Washington and the impor-
tstion Of American agricultural ma
chinery into Turkey.
L. $. Shares Responsibility.
Implication of world political re-
sponsibility upon the United States in
yolved in the Chester concession is
admitted I,x-
proval and support of the concession
by the United States calls for Ameri-
can participation in all of the prob
lens growing out of the Turkish ques-
tlcn and in the settlement of the man.
dated territory problem.
Opposed to the American concession
are the British and French govern
ments, both OF which will be art of
the proposed International court. Rus
= sia. while having no standing in the
court at present. is expected to have
: part at some future date with the
result that the entire question of
American participation in the develop
iaent Of Turkey may be expected con-
fidentially to find its final settlement
in the proposed world judicial estab-
lishment.
Acceptance OF the Chester conces-
SION by the world powers places the
United States ahwart the lines of Brit.
4 ish communication with the Indian
y empire and inserts an American
wedge in future exploitation of the
near, middle and far east extending to
the interior of China. 1t is expected
TO compel either closer approachment
between Great Britain and the United