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Show GREED0-TURKI3H GRiSiSBRIDGED OTTOMAN POWER TO FOREGO INDEMNITIES, IN-DEMNITIES, WHILE GREECE CEDES TERRITORY United States Representative 'Plays Prominent 'Part in Allied Parley Resulting In Agreemeint to Abandon Military Moves Lausanne. M. Venlzelos and Ismet Pasha reached a complete accord on reparations Saturday avoiding a war which might set the Balkans ablaze. The $1,000,000,000 claimed by the Turks for devastations committed by the Greeks during their retreat in Asia Minor has been canceled, the Turks accepting the following compromise com-promise : 1. In the treaty Greece acknowledges acknowl-edges moral responsibility for the devastations de-vastations and Turkey renounces the right to indemnity on account of the economic status of Greece. 2. The district of the Karagatch railway from Karagatch to the Bulgarian Bul-garian frontier is given to Turkey. 3. Ships captured since the formal armistice in 1018 are mutually restituted. resti-tuted. Turkey gains greatly by the last article, as Greece captured many Turkish ships, while Turkey captured few Greek vessels. Minister Grew, American observer, played a highly important role in the settlement, he verbally transmitted to Ismet, an urgent appeal from the state department to the Turks to make peace. The appeal emphasized that another war in the near east would frighten away American capital capi-tal for years to come and delay the reconstruction of Turkey. "It is peace," said M. Venlzelos, the first man out of the meeting. He was smiling. M. Venizelos and Ismet had a Rumanian Ru-manian delegate, M. Diamandi, between be-tween them during the early part of the discussion. Suddenly M. Venizelos Venize-los got up and asked M. Diamandi to change seats with him, and sat down besie Ismet. This cordial act helped to bring peace. |