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Show ITALY MAKES SECRET PACT, , PAPER AVERS Agreement Made With Turkish Nationalist Government, Gov-ernment, Charge GENOA PROGRESS Poincare May Attend Closing Clos-ing Sessions of Economic Conference LONDON. Ma 2. By the Associated Asso-ciated Press, i The Pall Mall Gazette and Globe todav says It has Just learned learn-ed that Italy, following France"s example, ex-ample, has made a secret polltlcul pact with the Turkish Nationalist governmental govern-mental Angora, "behind Great Britain's Brit-ain's back." "Full disclosure of this ha just been made," says the newspaper, thourrh It has been suspected fot I some time. Tho consequences are llke- I ly to be serious." ! The newspapers say Italy's withdrawal with-drawal of her troops from Scala Nova ! and the Meander valley In Asia Minor, is was leported in a Constantinople dispatch of.Aplrl 18. was effected by I an .icreement with the Turks The 'Turks were informed beforehand of this movement. It Fays, similar know-' ledge being denied to tho Greeks I whose flank was left dangerously ex-, posed. The newspaper says the Italians Ital-ians In return received consideration in the shape of a concession In the, Meander valley and the eastern villages vil-lages of an. Rltlls and Erzerum. POINCARE IN rERESl I D Genoa. May 2. (By the Associated Press.) Premier Poincare of Franco may come to Genoa for the closing session of the economic conference,' President Mlllerand's return from Af-I Af-I ilea will make it possible for thel premier to leave the capital, and the; j question whether he will Join the oth- er premiers hero will be one of tho subjects he will discuss with M BarthOU, head of the French delegation, delega-tion, who Is loavlng today for several: days' conference In Pans Tho most important question to hoi talked over by M. BarthOU and his chief, It is understood, Is that of Franc 's attitude on the nooaggreaalon pact proposed bj the British prime I minister. Mr. Lloyd George (l III K M iv.n i I Whether M. Poincare will consent to a meeting of the signatories of the treaty of Versailles to discuss German ' reparations before May 31, is another laubjei t for th- parley In Paris. Prench-j Prench-j men lu re believe it unlikely thai M.j I Poincare will agree to talk reparations! : it Genoa. The sub-committee on Russian affairs af-fairs was to meet this afternoon for 'Inal approval of the memorandum to the Russians, the details Of which were completed last night. The memorandum memoran-dum probabl will he sent to the Kus-slana Kus-slana today. NAMED BY TF! The document provides for estab-' estab-' llshment of a mixed arbitration commission com-mission for controlling the debts owed 1 to holders of Russian government I bonds, the chairman of which would I be named by Chief Justice Taft of the I'nited St;,t, v Mixed tribunals would bo set up to deal with the question ques-tion of the property of foreigners ln Russia which has been nationalized j Belgium alono was against tho later . feature. France abandoning her ob-i ob-i jectlons to Grenf Britain's project. The i Belgians Insisted on restitution of na- Monnllzed property to Its former owners. |