THE MORNING OREGONIAX, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 1922 LOiOil AGITATED BY RUMOR OF WAR Crowds Meet Everywhere for Excited Discussion. WILL HE COMB BACK AS HEAD OF GREEK NATION? CABINET ACTION CAUSE Gravity of Situation Declared Shown by Conferences With Military Chiefs. BY JOHN STEELE. (Chicago Tribune Foreign News Service By Chicago Tribune Leased Wire.) LONDON, Sept. 28. An extraordi nary rumor spread all over London this afternoon that Great Britain had declared war on Turkey. Men on the street, In busses, cars and trains, discussed the rumor ex citedly, and large crowds collected in Downing street and Whitehall. The only foundation for the rumor apparently was the fact that the publio was worried by three cabi net meetings in 24 hours, which seemed to indicate grave events. The British cabinet certainly took a graver view- of the near eastern situation today than it has for the last few days, but so far as I can ascertain this was due rather to negative than to positive happen ings. It was pointed out that Mus tapha Kernel Pasha's long delay in answering the peace note, during which time he was steadily moving troops toward both Ismid and Cha nak in the neutral zone, might be a trick to gain time and strengthen his position" before attacking. British Strengthen Poaltlon. It is true that the British also are strengthening their position rapidly, j About 600 more airmen sailed today j from Liverpool, and a large force of airplanes already has arrived at Chanak and is being used for sccut :ng . purposes. It is expected that before long the British will be in EQSsession of full information of Kemal's movements. The cabinet sat two hours this morning and two more this after roon with military, nayal and air chiefs, discussing the situaton, with h. view to all eventualities. They had before them Kemal's note in re ply to General Harington's warning not to invade the (JnanaK zone, which, it is said, is full of inac curacies and false statements, which can only be made for the purpose of prolonging the argument. Early Reply Not Expected. For insjancs, the demolitions which Kemal complains were made by the allied mixed commission in 1920 when demilitarizing the straits. It is reported that Kemal has gone to Angora to discuss a reply to the allies invitation to a conierence with the national assembly, and therefore a reply is not expected for some days. Franklin Bouillon, who was due to arrive in Smyrna to night, is expected to follow him there. The British spokesman made it plain that Mr.' Bouillon in no way represents the British, and he has been informed by the French em bassy that while he is no official of the French government, he knows Premier Poincare's mind and can represent it to Kemal. The cabinet only- gave passing attention to the Greek situation be cause they are still without accu rate information of what has hap pened at Athens. It is not con cealed here, however, that the. Brit ish believe that if the revolution results In the reorganization of the ij-reeK army, it may have an im portant effect on Kemal's decisions. It is confirmed here from the allied embassies that Crown Prince George has accepted the throne and that King Constantino is still in the neighborhood of Athens. t , . 'V'-' f I' 111 i rnoio Lopyrigoi vy uiiotrwuuu. I " KLKNTHERIOS VESIZEIOS. v I KEMAL1STS REFUSE TO STOP ADVANCE All of Neutral Zone Except Chanak Is Occupied SITUATION IS GRAVE Turkish Infantry In Semi-Circle Virtually. Invests British Ijines; Parley at Once Asked. (Continued. From First Page.) efficient than any used in the world war. 0 Since September 11 1 2000 men from the labor squad, 1000 from the fleet and several thousand from the army have been steadily build ing trenches and setting up gun emplacements. BRITISH CABINET IS AROUSED Three Successive Meetings to Discuss Situation. Held enter the zona the latter began fir ing from the village but when they were convinced the Turks were not attacking they agreed to joint occu pation. It is reported that General Harington will depart from Smyrna tonight to confer with Kemal. SAN DIEGO YOUTH WINS Highway Board Announces Essay Contest Award, WASHINGTON, D. C, Sept. 28. Stanley Newcomb. an eighth grade pupil in the Lincoln school at San Diego, Cal., has won first place among more than 4U0,U'U juvenile writers who entered the prize essay contest recently conducted by the highway education board. He wins gold watch and a trip to Wash ington, where he will be the guest of the board and of the national automobile chamber of commerce. , The subject to which the embry onic essayists addressed themselves was "How can I make the highways more safe? and the contest was open to all elementary school pupils" in the United States. PHONE PIONEERS GATHER NATIONAL. EXPERTS OPEN CONVENTION TODAY. Danger Is Discussed. Another subject considered was the danger of a foreign outbreak in Constantinople. The Manchester corn exchange, as a matter of fact, received a private message today that an outbreak already had taken place, but this was denied in Down ing street, where it was said, how ever, that the trouble might be turned on Constantinople at a mo ment's notice. Tussef Kemal is hurrying to An gora to present Mustapha Kemal Pasha's reply to the' allied note for approval. It was not expected the reply would be handed to the allies before three or four days. The final draft also was awaiting the arrival of Franklin Bouillon in Smyrna. Tho sultan pulled a new wrinkle when he handed his resignation to the cabinet. The grand vizier quick ly told Hamid Bey, who telegraphed Kemal. He received a reply today 10 instruct tne cabinet not to ac cept the resignation, but to guard the situation closely. The Turkish nationalists have completed the occupation of the Dardanelles neutral zone, except Chanak. They have reinforced their cavalry with infantry and were awaiting developments. British Han 21 Battalions. V Local nationalists are sure of an amicable settlement. The total of the British forces is 21 battalions. There are no full units, and. it is not believed the total will exceed 15,000 men. The British forces defending the Asiatic side of the straits practically all have been withdrawn to the Chanak area, with Turkish cavalry detachments surrounding them. About 2000 Turks, equipped with machine guns, are solidly estab lished at Erenkeui. Three squad rons of Turk light cavalry are 'at Karabigha and are advancing along the coast. Another detachment is established at Lapsakl. The Kemalist representative at Constantinople states that Chanak is partly occupied by Kemallsts and partly by the British. He declares that when the former commenced to WOMAN AIR MAIL GUEST Flight Across Continent in Octo ber Is Planned. SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 28. Miss Lillian Gatlin, San Francisco, an or ganizer of the aviation gold star mothers' organization ir. the United States, has accepted an invitation to make a transcontinental night as the guest of the air mail service, and will hop off from here at 9 A. Jf. Thursday, October 5, officials of the service announced today. So far as is known she will be the first woman to make such a flight. The trin is planned as a cere monial in honor of "the spirit of the gold star mothers," the service announced. CONSTANTINE IS COOL (Continued From First Page.) dead mean nothing to England as she hands over Asia Minor and Thrace to the Turks which slew the men of her dominions. What ahout the 200,000 Christians , who have perished or been massacred in Asia Minor by the Turks? No punish ment, but reward, handed out gra ciously by their war-time enemy. Europe is making a terrible mis take. "And now about Venizelos. He has a personal aversion to me. But men conducting great affairs must stifle personal considerations and work together for the common good. If the Grecian people want Ven izelos; if they. elect him to parlia ment and he becomes chief of the predominant party, I see no reason why he should not become premier. Under our constitutional system I would have to call upon him and I would do so. But Venizelos must recognize the existing government and the existing regime. Would the great American democracy want at the head of its cabinet a man who did not recognize its constitution or its existing regime. (The interview then deals with internal conditions which have largely been superseded by later events). "I have always admired America," the king went on, "and have always iiad the ambition to visit there. Who knows? Perhaps some day. I can not understand why America has not recognized me. America is a oemocracy and the pepole of Greece at a plebiscite summoned me to come back as king.. It is the voice of the people, which America loves bo much to listen to. I have some impression that America's recogni tion of me has something to do with the European powers recognizing President Obregon of Mexico. The European powers say that if the United States recognizes me, they in turn will recognize Obregon. It is either that or some other way around. There is some connection anyway." On leaving, the correspondent said: "To sum up, your majesty, you propose to remain as long as the people want you?" "That's it," replied King Constan tlne with his pleasant smile, "as Bernard Shaw would say, 'I'll stay until I'm spoofed.' " General Carty, Who Won Fame Devising Systems in War, Is Chief of Organization. CLEVELAND, O., Sept. 28. (By the Associated Press;) The trail blazers of telephony the men and ivomen who- entered the telephone industry in its early days and have watched it develop into a vast net work of wires covering the conti nent today were arriving in Cleve land tonight for the opening of' the ninth'annual convention of the tele phone pioneers of America tomor- row. More than 2000 are expected to at tend, all of whom have been active ly engaged in the telephone busi ness longer than 21 years. They will be guests of the Ohio Bell Tele phone company, A transcontinental rollcall, in eluding telephonic" conversations from New York to San Francisco with Cleveland listening in, will feature the programme tomorrow New York will answer first and then city by city the various sta tions on the transcontinental, tele ihone line will be "cut in." General J. J. Carty of New York, vice-president and head of the re search laboratory of the American Telephone & Telegraph company, ana known throughout the tele phone world as one of the greatest scientists on telephony, is president or tne pioneer organization. He won lame during the world war in de vising systems of communication. It was under General Carty's lead ership that telephone engineers car Tied out the famous experiments re suiting in radio telephone conver sation from Paris to the Hawaiian islands and from the ordinary resi dence telephone to a sh.p 400 miles &t sea. OR! LAW HELD FARCE VOLSTEAD ACT IS BREEDER OP CRIME, SAYS JURY. fll A H. gxeen ctaHifr Tor e&2&. Hoimau Fuel Co.. coal and wood. Broad ay f,2Z3 :60-21 Adv. Prohibition Declared to Increase Drug Cases and Make Youths Drunkards. SAN FEANCISCO, Sept. 28. Pro hibition is detrimental, oppressive ana unaemocratic," and the prohibi tion-law is a farce, the San Fran clsoo county grand jury held in i final report today to Judge Franklin Griffin, the presiding judge of the superior court. The jury report calls on. all Cal ifornia's representatives in congress to seek tne repeal of the Volstead law or to have it amended so that light wines and beer may be sold The maintenance of prohibition, is causing an increase In the number of narcotic cases, the sale of cheap, poisonous liquors of the 'bootleg' variety, the sale of "bootleg" whisky which is causing a number of deaths throughout the country and an in crease in the number of "grave' crimes, according to the report. Youths who never would have touched liquor before prohibition are drinking the noxious beverages and are becoming habitual drunkards the report continues. The rich are able to purchase good intoxicating liquor. It said, while the poor are the victims or the bootleggers." , ine report on proniDitlon con cludes with the -statement that the bootleggers are in favor of prohi bition and are supporting the dry cause., - F-eacock tiocx Springs coaL Dia mond, Coal Co, Bdwy. 3037 AdT. NON-ESSENTIALS BARRED Pennsylvania Railroad System Announces Embargo. PHILADELPHIA, Sept, 28. The Pennsylvania railroad system to night announced an embargo on all freight except foodstuffs, coal, live stock, perishable supplies and other essentials on all its lines west of Altoona and Benova, Pa. j The eastern region Is not affected I by the order. LONDON, Sept. 28. (By the Asso ciated Press.) The British cabinet held three successive meetings today and another meeting will be held tomorrow morning. This fact alone is sufficient comment upon the gravity of the situation in the near east, revealed by yesterday's bad news, which has been amply confirmed and accentuated by to day's dispatches. The Greek revolution, which was a military and naval coup,, seems to ifave been carried out with surpris ing swiftness and completeness. Information regarding Constantine was meager, but one report had it that he was a prisoner of the revo lutionists. The crown prince succeeds to the throne, while the victorious troops, with - their leaders at their head, marched triumphantly into Athens, which, pending the formation of a new government, is in the hands of a military dictatorship in the shape ot a triumvirate council of generals. One of the generals Is said to be the famous General Nlder, who for a long time was chief of staff and war minister under the Venizelos administration and commanded the Greek -expeditionary corps operat ing in south Russia in 1918. Apparently the revolution was bloodless, although an unconfirmed report mentioned the killing of one minister. It was assumed here that one of the main objects of the revo lution is to maintain Greek rule in eastern- Thrace. Latest, advices were to the effect that there had been no collision be tween the Turkish and British forces in the Chanak zone and that seemed to be the only satisfying as pect of a very threatening situation. Friendly messages have been ex changed between General Haring ton, the British commander at Con stantinople, and Kemal Pasha, dis cussing the respective-viewpoints in an amicable manner, but the Kemal ist; show not the slightest disposi tion to recede from their position and refuse to withdraw their troops from the Chanak sector. On the other hand, according to government dispatches and corre spondents on the spot, an additional Turkish force entered the neutral zone today, and there was a con stant increase in the Turkish troops in both the Chanak and Ismid sec- ttors. Not only have the Kemaliats refused to retire from the neutral zone, ignoring all British warnings, but they were reported to have de clared that they would not permit the British to build fortifications at certain points within the zone. In Constantinople it is believed the situation has been relieved by the Kemalist ag-reement to recognize the neutrality of the straits, pend ing the armistice conference. An other point favoring peace was that General Ha-rington still professed confidence in Kemal's moderation. He sent a wireless message to the nationalist leader at Smyrna to night, asking for an immediate per sonal meeting and leaving the choice of place to Kemal Pasha. A report has reached here that the sultan of Turkey, Mohammed VI, has abdicated in favor of the heir apparent. Prince Abdul Medjid. The British government is delay ing Its reply to the Russian note, pending further developments. With regard to Kemal Pasha's protest against British demolitions on the south side of the straits and the sea of Marmora, the British govern ment has stated that these were J executed in 1920 and that anything aone since tnen was quae unim portant. Neutrality Held Maintained. Regarding the Turkish complaints that the sea of Marmora Is closed to Turkish troops; the British conten tion is that it had thoroughly main tained absolute neutrality as be tween the Greeks and the Turks and that the whole of the sea of Mar mora' is free to both the Turks and Greeks equally. No authoritative information was forthcoming on the cabinet's views on the new situation created by the Greek revolution. The government's attitude was that of waiting for further developments and the re sult of the armistice conference. A Smyrna dispatch through Paris tonight said that Kemal Pasha was disposed to accept the invitation to a peace conference with certain reservations, but that the Angora assembly had voted a large war credit. All that it was possible to say with confidence was that while peace had not yet been broken, some unforeseen incident might at any moment provoke hostilities. FRENCH POLICY UNCHANGED Announcement Made After Paris Cabinet Meeting. PARIS, Sept. 28: (By the Asso ciated Press.) France's policyVln the near east as laid down in the note she sent to Kemal Pasha joint ly with the other allies has hot been modified by the overturn in Greece, it was announced after a cabinet meeting today. The French government is great ly concerned over the reported de termination of the new Greek gov ernment to defend Thrace. Such a decision, it is believed, would be cer tain to react unfavorably on the Ke malists and the dispatch of Greek forces to eastern Thrace would al most certainly be followed by a bel ligerent move on the part of Turks In Asia- Minor and disturbances in Constantinople. The situation, it is thought, will have the effect of de laying Kemal's reply to the allied note several more days. M. Franklin-Bouillon, the French emissary to the nationalists, Is ex pected to see Kemal at Smyrna today or tomorrow. He will use the entire influence of his govern ment to try and keep the nationalist leaders from taking any action with regard to Thrace until the intentions of the Greek government are clearly established. ALIi ALCOHOL IS SEIZED Closing of All Bars In Conquered Territory Is Ordered. CONSTANTINOPLE, Sept. 27. One of the first acts of the Kema list administration in the recon quered territory has been the con fiscation of all alcohol beverages and the closing of all bars. The Turkish newspapers here warn the inhabitants of Constantinople that they may soon expect similar steps to be taken here. An Angora official communique contains announcement of the nomi nation of "a Kamalist governor for Charak Kaleh, from which it said the last 350 inhabitants were evacu ated yesterday. We Tell It With VALUES This Institution Values the Good Will of Its Patrons Above All Else r It is an asset that has been earned through years of thoughtful, diligent service. It cannot be bought at any' price any other way. This good will is evidence that- our patrons value every offering of "Sweet Sixteen" to a point worthy of these remarkable garments. "Just right" Rich, smooth and mel low yet full-flavored Heinz Prepared Mus tard adds a delicious tasteto everything on whicti it is used. Care fully selected mustard is ground in Heinz spot-J less kitchens and kept right up to Heinz qual ity. The tasteisjustright Hostilities Cessation Opposed. LONDON, Sept. 29. 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