Evening star., 1923-02-24
KEMAL IS WINNING
TURKS T0PEACE
Lines Up Cabinet and 100
Members of Angora AS
sembIy for Treaty.
BY CONSTANTINE BROWN

BY Gable to The Star and Chicago Daily News
Copyright. 1923.
CONSTANTINOPLE, February "a
The latest reports from Angora in
dicate that although the treaty has
not been submitted to the national as
sempiy the prospects of peace are
quite favorable. Since the arrival Of
Mustapha Kemal Pasha. who now
faYors the early signing of the treaty.
he has been able to win his side. be-
sides virtually all the members of the
cabinet, a majority Of the members Of
parliament. The situation UP to the
present may be summed as follows:
11O Favor Treaty.
Mustapha kemal Pasha, the men,
bers Of the cabinet and ITO members
or the assembly favor the acceptance
or the treaty OF Lausanne, with the
addition of the following conditions:
1. The British must agree to the
rectitication of the MosuI frontier
leaving the question of the city TO be
settled a year after the signature Of
peace.
2. Turkey should have the absolute
right to appoint legal advisers of any
nationally who win accept the con-
troll and obey the orders of the Turk
ism government like other Turkish
officials.
3. A mixed commission of allies
and Turks should be appointed to
draw up a protocol to replace the
capitulauons and to regulate the
economic and financial relations be-
tween the Turks and foreigners.
Insist ON These Points.
The majority of the members in
the assembly who do not follow
Mustapha kemal Pasha blindly, and
who frequently oppose the leaders
policy, favor the acceptance of the
Straits agreement as arranged at
Lausanne but they insist on the fol-
lowing points:
1. The powers of the Greek patri-
merely spiritual and restricted to
Greeks within Ottoman territory.
2. No other concessions with re-
gard to capitulations can be made.
Ismet Pasha's concessions at Laus-
anne should be considered final.
5. The war indemnity should be
paid only for the allied navies for
the period extending from the date
of the signature of the Mudros armis-
tice until March 16, 1920. the date of
nople by the allied troops.
4. Greece must pay for the recon-
struction of the devastated areas in
Asia Minor a sum to be determined d
by an international commission
which will be asked to investigate
the damages on the spot.
5. The Mosul question must be
settled at once.
Fifty Take Russian View.
The extremist element, numbering
so members of the assembly, who are
believed to be in sympathy with the
Russians, consider the Lausanne con-
ditions as unacceptable. They insist
that the straits cannot be opened for
foreign warships, and demand the un-
conditional surrender to Turkey of
the towns of Karagatch and Mosul.
In order to continue the peace nego-
tiations. they demand that Ismet
Pasha shall undertake to obtain from
Great Britain a written guaranty
that all these conditions will be ac-
cepted. Otherwise, the peace negotia-
tions are not to be resumed. This
party is strongly supported by Mar
shall Fezi Pasha, who, in a private
interview with Kemal Pasha, de-
manded that as the Lausanne confer
ence had failed. he should order the
immediate resumption of hostilities
on all fronts. The commander-in-
chief refused.