Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1921-02-23 | Page 1 | Turks Decide to Act Apart before Allies

TURKS DECIDE j TO ACT APART ! BEFOBEJUIES IDelegates Outwardly Hostile When Conference At London Opens SULTAN'S ENVOY ILL. ASSISTED INTO ROOM jTurk Rebels Will Settle Directly With France If Treaty Stands LONDON, Feb. 3 Consideration I of Near Fastem problems by allied .and Turkish delegates began here this I morning at 11:16 o'clock The Turk-1 Turk-1 lsh representatives entered the con-I con-I ference In two separate ami distinct I bodies, tho Turkish Nationalist envoys I having refused to Join the delegates of the sultan's Koyernment. AT l! RS1 SHOE TABLE The conference was held In Queen Anne'S drawing room of St James Palace, the delegates assembling at a great horseshoe table. Premier Lloyd George sat on the , left sdde of the horseshoe with Premier Hriand, of Prance, and Count Sforsa. . Italian foreign minister. On the other 1 Plde ,.f the table sat Earl Curzon of Kedieston, secretary of state for foreign for-eign affairs the Japanese delegates being seated at his right. The Turkish representatives were given a separate table. Tewflk Pasha, representative of tho sultan's Kovern-ment. Kovern-ment. looked feeble and 111 when he-was he-was nsslsted Into the room by members mem-bers of his staff. Beklr Samy Bey, head of the Turkish Nationalist delegates, dele-gates, accompanied by his colleagues and a secretary, entered the room after Tewflk Pasha. TURKS IIOSTILF. The two Turkish delegations, although al-though outwardly hostile to each other, oth-er, nevertheless apparently have a common purpose many observers crediting them with acting on the theory that they can obtain more by acting apart than by fusion The Angora delegation has given , I Ha I.",f.n.l. ,,nlA,.lnl V. , If Ik. conference does not grant an adequate I revision Of the treaty of Sevr.s. BfUS-tapha BfUS-tapha Kemal Pasha desires to negotiate nego-tiate direct with France. The Nation" allsts affirm that they have 80.000 men in reserve, well equipped for field service- i rST MI. PIG1 It I Beklr Samy Bejr, the Nationalist spokesman who is more of a soldier th.in a diplomat, was the outstanding figure on the Turkish side of the table. Ho not only Interrupted Mr. Lloyd i George when the latter was speaking, but when the Turks were pressed for details of their demands he undertook to give them The two delegations agreed on the ! brood principles of maintaining tho integrity in-tegrity of the Ottoman empire They ! demanded the return of Thrace and 1 Smyrna to Turkey. The liberty of the straits and military and financial con- trol In Constantlniple were insisted upon. The conference adjourned with the understanding that the Turks would submit their proposals in writing at .11:16 o'clock tomorrow morning. I oo