Salt Lake Tribune | 1919-05-22 | Page 2 | Turk Problem Becomes Acute One in Parleys

TURK PROBLEM BECOMES ACUTE ONE IN PARLEYS PARIS. May 21. (By the Associated Press) The Turkish problem has become most acute in the peace conference. Various: Var-ious: delegations are striving to find some solution for the dismemberment for the empire, which, will not provoke a religious relig-ious war. The United States Is looked to by other powers as the only nation which can become be-come a mandatory for Constantinople without danger of precipitating another European war, but the American delegates dele-gates to the peace conference express doubt of the will iug"n ess of the United Stales to accept the mandate. With the sultan removed from Constantinople Con-stantinople the American delegates expressed ex-pressed the belief that it might be possible pos-sible for the American public to become reconciled to the mandate. However, the Indian delegation, which has appeared before the council of four to plead for special consideration for the feeling of the Mohammedan world, asserts that the sultan must not be forced out of Constantinople, Con-stantinople, declaring that such action would greatly affect his standing1 in the church. Consequently, Great Britain is seeking to have the sijlan remain in Constantinople as head of the Moslem faith, but with purely spiritual powers. It is now suggested that instead of transferring the sultan to a strip of territory ter-ritory osme where in Asia Minor he remain in Constantinople, but be allowed to exercise a degree of temporal power over some territory in Asia Minor to be selected, thus preserving the form of the Ottoman empire. Such a plan, it is asserted, as-serted, would prevent the obliteration of Turkish pre-war debts and necessitate the framing of a peace treaty with the empire. The American commission discussed this plan yesterday, but apparently there was considerable difference, in opinion among the delegates. Some of them feel that the United States probably would be unwilling to accept the Constantinople mandate under any conditions in the event it accepts the mandate for Armenia, Ar-menia, which would require a large number num-ber of American troops until' such time as native forces could be organized and the unsettled conditions controiied. Military experts declare that Constantinople Constan-tinople could be controlled entirely by the navy and policed under direction of the maryies. The probable military force necessary to restore order in Armenia and protect the Armenians from their aggressive neighbors has been variously estimated at from 50.000 to 100,000.