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Show , CRISIS III NEAR I EASTALAfiMING BRITISH CABINET 8ETS INFOR MALLY OVER WEEK END AND DEBATES London Dally Mall Characterizes Pol- Icy of Premier Lloyd George A Near Insanity; Press Voice Opinions London. Near oflstorn dovolop- monts nro camdng tbo British govern ' jnent Increased anxiety. Tho cabinet Wet informally ovor tho week-end at ' .Chequers Court, tho country rcs'donts . of tho prime minister. AUBten Chain. '" i berla'n, Lord llrikonhead, Sir Itobbrt Sj, Stovcnson Homo and Winston Spcn- v ,' cor Churchill have horn Lloyd Goorjtc's ' guests thorc, and ull through Sunday 1 ' ' the telephones botween Chequers i Court and tho foreign office in London hnve been humming with consultations consulta-tions with tho various government de-,, de-,, partmonts. U Tho principal news of Sunday brought by Associated Press dtspntch- es, Is of a conforonco botweon Sir Harry Lamb, tho ltr'tlsh High com- 8 mlsslonor, and Mustapha Kcmal 1'ashn H at Smyrna, in which tho nationalist m lender ahowod little disposition to ro- 9 ' gard allied waru'nRs unless tho atllos wore willing to roturn Thrace to Tur koy. Moreover, Kcnal demanded com-,' com-,' ploto withdrawal of tho Greok forces (", ' from tho Tchatalja l'nen. v The latest ndvlco from Constnntl- ,. noplo indicate soriouc allied prepara tions for a poslblo attempt by the ' Komallats against tho noutntl zono. ' ' This may servo to explain tho some what sudden chaugo in the attitude of tho llntish government from Frl-v Frl-v day, whon it was explained that no considerable reinforcements would be . sent to tho near cast unless tho Turks ' gavo ovidenco of an Intent to cross ' into Europe, when tho British govern- M ment issued an important statement of 'C policy, showing Immediate stops to moot possiblo Kemnllst action. IHj This audden cliango In nttitudo had rs causod gmvo misgivings In certain ,' 1 , quarters. Tho Dally Mail Monday pub- ill lished undor the cd'toiiul caption: I "This Now War," an nrticlo Btlgmatlz- 1 ing tho policy sot forth in tho stato- S ment as "bordering upon insanity." 1 1 It declares that tho Br'tlsh public I will learn with dismay and astonish- $ ment that Lloyd Oeorgo and his col- Sj loaguoB aro organizing a now war -In M the near east, aro trying to drag Jugn- ij " Slavla and Rumania into tho fray and J K nro sondlng Urlttah troops Into lint- tlo "shoulder to shoulder with tho do- B Jected GreokB." I It adds: "Tho most astonishing dls- 1 closure In this amazing declaration of govornmont policy Id that apparently t B Lloyd Goorgo already has sent n flory 8 cross around tho overseas dominions asking them to send contingents to Join in this mad war." The Mall contends thnt Mustapha 1 Kernel's poaco torms aro not far ro- movoil from tho tonus propounded by 1 Lord Curzon, In behalf of th allies Y"8 . on March 30th, when Lord Curzcn, I suggested tho Knos-Mldla lino shoubl j I bo tho Turkish frontier in Europb 1 It declares that all agreo that 1 Constantinople must bo returned I to tho Turks and Kemnl Pasha, and i 1 now Lloyd Goorgo Ik "trying to re- I 1 trlovo his Bhattorod reputation 1 through the downfall of his pro-Creel- i I policy, by arranging n wanton war m and supposing thnt ho can arouse the j ,f nation ns Gladstone did in tho sovon-j, sovon-j, Jj tlos of biBt contury about Ibilgarla." T? - ' Wh'Io tho Mall ha3 known pro- 1 i frronch proclivities, it voices nn op!n- ion which Ib qulto prevalent. "Great Britain's one true Interest l Is froodom of tho straits, which can bo attalnod by nngotlntlons," tho pa- i per continues. "Thoro is not tbo anm'- I lest need to plungo Europe into war and nllennto tho wholo Mohammedan world about the otrnlts." |