Evening star., 1923-01-02
TURKSSPURNPEACE
| ON ALLIES TERMS;
MOVING ON STRAITS
Angora Assembly in Secret
Session Orders Ismet to
Yield on Nothing.
KEMAL VIEW DEFEATED
IN STORMY MEETING
Military Leaders See Peril to Brit
ish Garrison Left in Con-
stantinople.
BY CONSTANTINE BROWN.
70 Inc etar ana chicago Daily

fBy Cable to The Star and Chicago Daily
news. Copyright, 1921
CONSTANTINOPLE, January q
After long debates the national az
sembly has decided that Ismet Pasha
is to be authorized to sign peace only
on the basis of the instructions given
when he left Angora for Lausanne.
The instructions were that the allies
must accept the whole of the nation
alist peace program.
The Turks will try to split the al
lies at Lausanne, because they have
told ismet Pasha that "in case he
meets serious difficulties he should
get in touch separately with such
powers as have shown friendliness
toward Turkey"
Session LIN Stormy.
The sitting of the assembly was
secret and was said to have been a
stormy one. Mustapha Kemal Pasha
and his followers favored peace, while
the extremists, led by KAHN Kara
vassiv, deputy from Erzerum, said
that further concessions on the part
of Turkey were impossible and that
1t was up to the allies to accept or
reject the Turkish terms.
The extremists succeeded in having
passed resolution to the effect that
the assembly will not discuss
again any point in the nationalist
peace pact because all possible con-
cessions have already been made"
on the other hand, Kemal Pasha's fol-
lowers tried to convince the national
assembly that a conciliatory policy
was possible without endangering the
nationalist terms.
Moving Against Chanak.
News has been received from An
CORA that the Turkish army is pre-
pairing to resume hostilities by con-
centrating against the Chanak posi-
tions. The 4th Army Corps from
Brusa has been moving since Friday
to occupy the line Bigha-Chanak
Kalessi, where it will meet the Sd
Army Corps from Ismid. which start
ed a southwark movement q week
ago.
Besides these concentrations against
the British at Chanak military move
ments have been discovered in the
Diarbekir region. Kiazim Pasha, the
nationalist minister of war, left An
CORA with two reserve divisions and
town of Diarbekir. where one or
more divisions from the Caucasian
front are expected soon.
British Would Bear Brunt.
The British. who will bear the brunt
of the attack, are not much worried
about the Chanak positions. which
are strongly fortified, and they be-
lieye that with the assistance of the
fleet they will be able to defend them
selves successfully.
Military leaders among the allies
NOBLE, where the British garrison
alone will have difficulty in checking
an uprising of thousands of Mussul-
mans well armed and led by nation
alist officers.
Bluff, Diplomats Think.
In spite of the seriousness of the
situation, the allied diplomats do not
seem to believe in the possibility of q
resumption of military operations.
The general impression among Ital-
ian, French, and even British diplo-
mats, is that the Turks are trying to
bluff, and that as soon as they dis
cover that this plan will not work
they will give and compromise on the
various disputes at issue in Lausanne.
This belief Is not shared by mill
tary men, who think that the major
ity in the nationalist assembly is COM
posed of ignorant and dangerous men,
who do not realize the danger in
volved in starting a new war. and who
are Influenced by the Russians, who
nh
rope into anarchy once more.