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Show WAR CHIEFS OF Bfill! cn London Cabinet Meets Commanders Com-manders of Army and Navy Forces LONDON, Sept. 18. ( Dy The Associated Asso-ciated PresB.) The British cabinet held a conference today over the Near Kajrtern rlsls Significance was attached at-tached to the presence of the Earl of t'avan, chief of staff of tho army. Air! Marahal Sir Hugh Montague Trench-1 ard and a prom'nont representative of the admiralty all of whom carried dispatches dis-patches and maps. The principal news of Sunday brought by Associated Press dispatcher, dis-patcher, is of a conference between Sir Harry Lamb, the British hteh cornmls Sloper, and Mufltapha Kemal Paha at Smyrna. In which the nationalist lead-, cr ohowed little disposition to regard ; allied Warnings unless the allies werej willing to return Thrace to Turkey. Moreover, Kemal demanded complete withdrawal of the Greek forces from the Tehatalja lines. The latest advice from Constantinople Constan-tinople indicate serious allied preparations prep-arations for a possible attempt by'tho KemallSJtS against the neutral zone. This may serve to explain the somewhat some-what sudden change in the attitude ot the British government from Friday, Fri-day, when It wiu explained that no considerable reinforcements would be s nt to the Near East unless the Turks gave evidence of an Intent to cross Into Europe, to Saturday, when the Erltlsh government Issued iin Important Im-portant statement of policy, showing Immediate steps to meet possible Ke ins list action. "BORDERING OS INSANITY." This sudden change In attitude has caused grave misgivings In certain quarters. Tho Dally Mail today published pub-lished under the editorial caption: "This Now War," an article stigmatizing stigma-tizing the policy set forth In the staernent as "bordering on insanity." It declares that the British public will leam with dLsmay and astonishment astonish-ment that Mr. Lloyd-George and his colleagues are organizing a new war In the Near East, are trying to drag Jugo-Slavla and Rumania Into tho fray anil are sending British troops Into battle "shoulder to shoulder, with the dejected Greeks." It adds: "The most astonishing disclosure dis-closure in this amazing declaration of government policy Is that apparently Mr Llud George already has sent a Hen cross around the oversea dominion, do-minion, asking them to send contingents contin-gents to Join In this mad war" The Mall contends that Mustapha Kemal'S peace terms are not far removed re-moved from the terms propounded by Lord Curzon. In behalf of the. allies on March 3 0, when Lord Curzon suggested sug-gested the Enos-Mldla line should be the Turkish frontier in Europe It declares de-clares that all agree that Constantinople Constanti-nople must be returned to the lurk1 and Kemal Pasha, and now Mr Lloyd George Is "trying to retrieve his shatter! shat-ter! 1 reputation, through the downfall down-fall of his pro-Greek policy, by arranging ar-ranging a wanton war and supposing that he rjn arouse the nation us Gladstone Glad-stone did In the seventies of last century cen-tury about Bulgaria." While the Mall has known pro-French pro-French proclivities. It voices an opinion opin-ion which is quite prevalent "Great Britain's one true interest Is free, lorn of the straits, which can be attained bv negotiation," the paper! continues "There Is not the smallest) need to plunge Europo Into war and, alienate the whole Mohammedanj world about the straits." |