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Show LONDON POLICY GROWS HiER ITALY TAKES HAND IN ROW AND ASKS POWERS TO INDUCE GREEKS TO QUIT Dowining Street Shows Little Faith In Turks; England Orders Turks To Remove Troops From Chanak Zone London. The British government has sent a virtual ultimatum to Must-apha Must-apha Kemal Pasha stating that his troops must leave the Chanak zone. Koine. Italy, Friday, informally requested the allied powers to prevent pre-vent the Greek revolutionaries from attmpting to hold Thrace against the I Turks occupation, Italy fears that if the Greek army in Thrace tries to keep out Ihe Turks, the Balkans will he menaced with a new war. Advices from Athens quoted members of the Creek revolutionary committee as saying say-ing that the Thracian front was being strengthened and that the chiefs of the new Greek government were in duty hound to the nation to defend Thrace. J London. -The anxiety of the British Brit-ish cabinet over the Near East situation situa-tion was heightened Friday by news that the Russian soviet government is recognizing and strengthening its southern army with the possibility of joining the Turks. The British cabinet is meeting daily to consider "war plans.'' It is reported that the government gov-ernment has placed tentative orders for war materials, mostly munitions. Most of the British officials have little lit-tle faith in Mustapha Kemal Pasha. They suspect he is delaying his reply re-ply to the allies peace note for the purpose of gaining time to strengthen forces around the allied neutral zone on the Turkish straits. 'Russia has not taken any military steps in the Near East," said Bothe-stein. Bothe-stein. "So long as Russia is invited to the Near East peace conference and there is no interference with Russian trade we do not think Constantinople worth the blood of a single Russian soldier. Russia is not preparing to help Turkey. The British forces on the Dardanelles Darda-nelles and in and around Constantinople Constantino-ple has been increased to the following follow-ing totals : Troops, 35,000. "War crafts 3S dreadnaughts, battle bat-tle cruisers, destroyers and submarines. submar-ines. Members of the cabinet declared postively that Britain would not entertain en-tertain any suggestion for the passage of Turkish troops through the neutral neutr-al zone into Thrace. Up to noon the British foreign office had no official dispatches from Constantinople Con-stantinople bearing upon the reported abdication of the sultan, but the report re-port was generally believed. Kemal has been demanding the retirement of Sultan Mohammed VI on the grounds he was only "a tool of the allies." |