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Show TURKISH UNREST FMED BY REDS Russian Foreign Minister Attempting to Cause Row At Lausanne I..AUSANNE, Dec. 9. (By the Associated As-sociated Press.) Proof that Holshe-Mkt Holshe-Mkt Russia Ls highly dissatisfied with: Turkey because Ismet Pasha has" abandoned the Russians on the question ques-tion of the Dardanelles was found to-I to-I day when M Tchitcherln. the soviet I foreign minister. Issued an urgent i.i-j i.i-j vltatlon to the Turkish journalists and In the course of a long speech warned them of the dangers of placing their trust in the allied nations. M. Tchitcherln did not want to say anything In the way of criticism ot the Turkish plenipotentiaries, but thought the Turkish people at homo' should know of tho trend of things at Lausanne. He had a distinct Impression, Im-pression, he said, that war between I Turkey and the powers was still going go-ing on. Usually wars were fought on; the battlefield, but at Lausanne, the war was being waged around the) green table and the goo! was to separate Turkey lrom Russia. After-' wards the great powers would deroai Turkey and Russia separately. PREDICTS DlSPXPn Tchitcherln charged that France had abandoned Turkey in favor of England, and the consideration wan propably some concession on the I reparations problem from England. "Put It remains to be seen " ho continued, "how far France and Eng-: land will agree when the Brussels conference is held." H rejoiced that Turkey and Russia finally had come together because they were virtually important to -ach other, their Inton-sts were the lame.' "The Independence and strength of Turkey i:- security for Russia" he added, "and Turkey cannot be strong and Independent unless tho straits aie closed " SUSPECTS BRITISH. The Bolshevik leader declared that to allow foreign warships to pass through th' straitc would mean the handing over of Constantinople to the nation with th- strongest navy. Naval units would seiz- Constantinople, then attack Russia. Therefore, if Constantinople Constan-tinople was In danger, Russia also was in terror. Turning his attention to England, Tchitcherln told the Turkish correspondents corre-spondents that Hrrnt Britain had her eye on nortrn-rn Persia. The way to northern Persia was through the Caucasus; Cau-casus; the way to the Caucasus was through tho Dardanelles. He asserted that tho Russian program at Lausanne Lau-sanne was based on a community of Interests between the Russian and Turkish p nd he hoped that the end of the conference would find the two countries nearer together, PLAYING ON SENTIMENT. If the Turks Insisted on their right to fortify the straits and defend Constantinople. Con-stantinople. Russia would feel more secure ,-ind ould take up with the neighboring states oti the Pla k s-a the question of demilitarizing that at i r There are Indications that the Boi-Sbevlki Boi-Sbevlki are Inclined to believe that some of tho members of the Turkish delegation ar.- dissatisfied with Ismet Pasha's conciliatory policy on the straits problem aid that the Russians are trying to play upon this si Q tiro ti-ro en I to their own advantage |