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.
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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.
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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.
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Hostilities Cessation Opposed.
LONDON, Sept. 29. An Exchange
Telegraph dispatch from Paris to
night gave the report that the An
gora assembly in secret session had
decided to notify Kemal Pasha that
it was unable to agree to any ces
sation of hostilities or participation
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SMYRNA, Sept. 28. (By the As
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night under the protection of the
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