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Show iALLIED TROOPS I i AND FLEETS TO j BE ASSEMBLED 1 I I 1 I Premiers Belief Situation With I I Regard to Turkey Has I I ! Been Dealth With I I QUESTION OF RUSSIA j I WILL BE CONSIDERED j I Italy to Ask for 20 Per Cenl f X I of Reparation Demanded , J I From Germany j . I BOULOGNE. June 21. (By the As- 1 soclatcd Press) Greece was given a Kj H freo hand in the military measures in n H Turkey which wero decided upon at ft' 1 the Hythe conference yesterday, ac- J jj cording to information here today. f The Premiers and their advisors found these measures wero rcquirod Im- J u mediately because of the grave situa- I Ij tlon arising from .llustapha Kernel's n nationalist forces reaching the Dar- I . JH danclles. IjH French and British troops and tht 1 'JH i British fleet will be concentrated for J 'the defense of Constantinople and the l , IH straits. i !' JfM I Tho delegates to the Hythe confer- , ' ence, it is declared, were of the opln- ; J H , ion that the taking of these measure H would be sufficient to deal with th H situation. j' H Prcmlrca Arrive I ' Premiers Lloyd George and Miller- j H and, accompanied by Marshal Foch, H and Frederic Francois Marshal, j French minister of finance, - arrived j here this morning at 10 30 o'clock by j .M special boat from Folkestone. In the- g party was Premier Venizelo3 ol , Greece. Tlie arrival of tho two pre- 11 miers completes the delegates which IK will participate in tho conversations ?f ! hero today and tomorrow, the Italian pi jM and Belgian representatives having ar rived during- tho night. JM : Questions relative . to-,j;iparatlonv- . ;andrRussl.a're!fpeclcKto .bo the two " vAVJ ' most difficult problems of the confer- ' BASJ ence. and may prolong tho sessions ' BBV to Wednesday or Thursday. v HAS Mandate Over Armenia ft BAwJ Premier Vcnlzelos will formally of- h t fer in the name of Greeco to take the ?' ' IBV i mandate over Armenia and ho will :- , , participate largely in all other discus- BV aions of Turkish questions. Bv Count Carlo Saforza, Italian foreign Bl I minister, will ask on behalf of Italy v HBV for twenty per cent of the reparations t 'to be paid by Germany. AVI After short conferences beginning L i about noon, the delegates wont for a . IF picnic luncheon on the race course a ( few miles outside of Boulogne, The will take tea at Hardclot, the site of I I Ian Important British camp during the j . war. Tonight the muncipality will I i give a grand festival at tho casino in honor of the delegates. S jH Discussion of Reparations n JH LONDON. Juno 21. Referring tc f the discussion of reparations between j! jH Promiera LUyd George and Millcrand at Hythe, the London Times says tho basis accepted by the former Hythe 1 conference regarding the interdepend- H ence of the puymcnt of German repar- H ations and tlie reimbursement of al- H lied debts could not bo maintained M owing to the refusal of the United States to accept 11. British financial H representatives declared themselves H unable in this condition to adhere to - 'H the former plan, inasmuch as Great lH Britain will have to bear tho weight 'lH of her debt to tho United tSatcs. it is .H said. , jl On the other hajid, it was agreed H Germany should be called upon to pa H reparations In the form of annuities ' H which would be extensible in accord- I H ance to Germany's capacity to pay. j 1 H |