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Show ARMENIANS TIL ; THEIR DESIRES Allied Conference Studies Conflicting Con-flicting Aims of Near East Peoples LONDON, Feb. 26 Armenian rcp-I rcp-I resentatlvei were beard this forenoon by allied representatives gathered here for the .N'i :ir Eastern conference. Luter, iiicstloiis affecting Armenia and Kurdistan Kur-distan were taken up with Turkish delegates to the conference. Newspapers lu te published a cabled appeal from citlSens of various localities locali-ties around Smyrna, complaining of Turkish Nationalist cruelties to native Christians. t I. VIMs )1 GlU-Et I Greek delegates were stm awaiting today a reply from Athens regarding the allied proposal that a oommisilon I gather Information relative to L reek and Turkish claims in Bmyrqa and I Thrace, llellei was cxpreun.nl here that 'Inducements, such as recognition of' King Constantino and financial OSS-tat- unce, had been offered them. While the Near BoSte rn conference had made no real ir,;; rcsx toward re conciling the Turkish and Greek view J point on 8i..yi-nu .tml i nim . , .i .pec-la .pec-la Committed ol the supreme council met refill urn- j, , i . j 1 1 e ., t mu of the Kurdisii ana Armenian claudes of the treaty of Sevcres, in tltc i.giit of events. Loth Turks and Armenians Were heard on Turkish Armenia audi Kurdistan. The Armenians asked for recognition of their full Independence.! Earl Curson, British foreign mims-l ter, explained When the Turks mot the committee that the powers old not In-1 tend to abandon tiiolr obligation toj constitute a unlled und stable Armenia M. llerhelot of the Kronen delegation, delega-tion, reaffirmed the intention of the French when v. It l.dr.-iw ing Irom the military occupation of Cllisla to make provisions safeguarding the interests of th Armenians there. oo |