CRISIS IN EAST

Waihi Daily Telegraph, Volume XX, Issue 6762, 10 November 1922, Page 2

CRISIS IN EAST

EARLY CLASH REARED OPPOSING TROOPS IN CLOSE TOUCH THE ALLIES IN ACCORD. PREPARED TO USE FORCE. CHAOS IN CONSTANTINOPLE United Service Telegrams ;ReceneC 8 a.m.i CONSTANTINOPLE, Nov. 8 Ismct Pasha held a conference With the Allied High Commissioners, and then left for Angora, where he will report to big Govornmojat on the crisis.

Tiro Bourse is closed and Turkish exchange is depreciating hourly. Merchants are cancelling orders, the new Custom s tariff has disorganised trade, and the nciw Government is in a deplorable state financially, and cannot pay its officials regularly. Dr. Nansen asked the Angora Government to negotiate for the exchange of Turkish Nationals with Greece, but the Kemalists expect that the negotiations will prove abortive owing to the Greek opposition to the evacuation of Constantinople hy 400,000 Greeks, collectively possessing enormous wealth. If the Greeks go other foreigners mu s t follow, which (would ruin the city’s commerce.

The Grand Vizier has sent a final appeal for between the Porte and Angora.

The greatest tension prevails in the city and a clash seems inevitable if the British forces guarding the Gajata bridge continue to prevent the Turks traversing it. Guards with concealed machine guns are posted at the end of the bridge and in the houses overlooking it. Th 0 guard ha 8 been strength, cned by motor cars with machine guns.

FRANCE READY TO I FIGHT.

ENFORCEMENT OF RESPECT.

(Received 8 a.tn.) PARIS, November 8

The .press is now almost unanimous that the Allies must use force if necesr sary to make the Turks respect them. There is a general demand for the sending of reinforcements. The cruiser Wa’deck Rousseau has gone to Constantinople. The Temps says:—Wo are confronted with the possibility of war between the Turks and the Allies, the former relying on the Soviets to become the arbiter between Asia and Europe.

A GRAVE SITUATION,

GETTING BEYOND CONTROL

(Received 10 SO a.m.)

PARIS, November 9,

France views the situation a s most grave, and an immediate meeting of the Lausanne Convention is regarded as essential a s th© situation is steadily getting beyond control. The naval forces and Allied troops at Constantinople are computed at 40,000. of which 30,000 are British and 5000 French.

DEMANDS OF KEMALISTb.

COMPLETE INDEPENDENCE,

(Received 8 a.m.) PARIS. November 8

Ihe Komalistg demanded fin addition lo the abolition of the capitulations a plebiscite in West Thrace, the return of Mosul, the complete independence of Turkey, and an indemnity of £240,000,000 from Greece.

TURKS CUT CABLE.

BRITISH SOLDIERS MURDERED

(Received, 10.30 a.m.)

LONDON, November 9

Disquiet i s fo'.t owing to the complete absenc© of news from Constantinople since the message announcing that the Turks had reiterated their demands. Messages now coining by indirect routes show that the silence iig due to the Turks -cutting the cable at Ciianak and Abokale. Martial law ha s not yet been proclaimed. Two British sold*er s were mured at Kissim Pasha.

BRITISH LABOURS ATTITUDE WARNING TO TURKS. (Received 8 n.m.) LONDON* November 8 Mr J. H. Thomas, Labour member of the House (of Commons l , speaking at Derby said the Kcmalist leaders (would make a profound mistake (if they attempted to take advantage of Britain’s pi coceupation in the general election. Labour stood definitely for peace leaving it to the House of Commons to decide on committing the country to war. VIEWS OF LIBERAL PARTY. UNITY AMONG THE POWERS. (Received 8 a.m.l LONDON, November 8. Mr H. H. Asquith, the Liberal Party loader, speaking at Paisley, said the issues involved in the Near East wore very serious, and the situation was far too grave to bo subordinated to party hstinctioiis. It was considered in the judgment of the Liberal Party that it vas of the utmost importance that unity if purpose, policy and action should ho

maintained between the great Powers,' We were faced by a dangerous and difficult problem, and any want of tact or blunder of judgment might ]£>re. cipitate a catastrophe.

THE GREEK DISASTER.

CHARGES OF HIGH TREASON.

ATHENS, November 8,

An official report on the Asia Minor disaster accuses the politicians whose names have been detailed and General Hadjanestis of high treason. It ia al. leged that they recalled ex-King Oonstantine despite the Allied warnings by announcing the result of the plebiscite as ninety-nine per cent, in favour of Constantine’s return, which figures were grossly exaggerated, and secondly Ai s alleged that the politicians’ conduct aided th e enemy advance, and the late Government is accused of having unnecessarily delayed advising Constantine to abdicate. A third charge alleges that the Ministers entrusted the high Qpntnvar.d to Constantine but did not make him responsible for the army’s reverse, and continually misrepresented these revises as successes. A fourth a , legation is that the army was not furnished wlith adequate provisions and that the operations were ordered without the necessary preparations, and that pub no money was squandered, A fifth charge relates to General Hadjanesti’s withdrawal of troops from Asia Mmor and their transfer to Thrace. The trial of accused ha s been fixed for November 13th.

GRAECO-JUGOSLAV f TREATIES.

(Received 8 a.m.i ATHENS, November 8,

Greece and Jugoslavia have reached can agreement regarding a commercial treaty and the question of a free zone iu Salonika, and hav e also arranged for joint action’at the Laussane Conference, particularly regarding a Bulgarian outlet to the Aegean Sea.

GREEK CABINET RESIGNING.

(Received 8 a m.J ATHENS, November 8

It is reported that the Greek Cabinet will resign and be reformed under a new Premier,