ed Oxford in: their annual Rugby game:.
this-afterneon
by a scoré of2Lto 8. - = .
Paris,
‘Dee: 12th.~+France’tonight is =
gloomily takinsstock‘of: anather ‘repara:
-
tions failure ®at’kdndon: ::Premier Pein:. .-
care’ returned: to:-Pais ‘with.a-wiotrried
air,:and:: parliatentavy:-as.
.well-a8: gov-
ernmental-vireles
{are
deepiy disappeint-
-
ed. «Fhere!id-aniait-of forced -hove in
some: of ‘the: newspapét
comments;
in-
which -it is: 'suggested
|Fraace map: yot
-
-
induce:the Allies:to approve. theisaiz.
.
ureof
the: !Ruhwsand -other guarantees:i;
at
tHe svesumption
~of:'the:
Inter-Als: .
lied:.canference’
hece:on s January
2ad.. -
France’s: gcim: dstermipation:
tp'
gouit
alomge; ifadecessary;:in
- oredar<ito layher:
hands semsdométhing
tahgible
that: will
maked Germaay” act,
:s stillv the:sdemi-
-
nantnote
in the*newspapess:
andzpoliti--
|
cal disguisiansi:
Thiete-s soines eriticism: -
that:the:Govérnment
had atready delayed: -
toodang,
and thele
is 'greal’cumcern aver: |
the impedding neeessity: of-Franve: act:
-
inz
mdependently:s
M.::Pojncare:iwilk-
state: his “ease bufore: ‘the::Chamber
of:
Deputies:o#-Friday,
although:a
full Cabi- -
net nieeting
had been :'summoned
. forto:]
moxedw: morniog which
‘may change his.
¢
programme.> iTha-Rremier is«still:deters
«
mined that:theva:shall:be | nio:nionatorium="
withoatigunrdntees;
for,!as: LoLibertes:
says; it s «ohedr hat {fgwaranteds
ares
abandonéd; orieved if<these:is ‘no-longer
belief ixthe? usafulness of seizing Buar- .
antees,them
fhereds -nothihg leéft:::Re-
parationa-will become:nething:
‘more than-
-
dreamßy withoa saecession-of
cancellations-
-
of inter-Alied: debts; predicted upon 3
reduetion of “Germany's: delits -until: the: .
“‘slate-is’ wiped :clean; ‘tlean”
for-everys
..
body-except:us,
who::bear: thé -burden’’:
The Temps’ brushes
-aside. ‘'the polifical
interruptions’’ ‘of the London adjourment:
and after referring:
to the conditions:
of-
- finances,
repeats
‘‘no moratoriom’
without a guarantee
-of the Rahr’’..
As.
for ‘possible -British ‘canecellation as :the.
French debs,
the Temps
says,
''lt-would:
not help-the Freanch- tredsury
for & mo-.
ment’’.. The-Jrurral
des Debats
regrets-
that ‘thereiis
so.:much:
talk about the
Rhur, teading the
British. to think it a:
“‘punitiveexpedition’’; and
the :World to
consider:
ithe
seizure
of the ‘Ruhr
as:
France’s:main
object, instead
of its being
..
merely
a means
to an
end, which is pres-
sure ol German industrials to-make them
clean ‘liouse and prepare
topay.
=
=
-
Lausanne,
Dee.
12th.-=lsmet. Pasha,
.
head}of
the
Turkish ‘delegates,.:dashed
the hopes. of: the Near
Easterh
Confer-
ence: fora speedy
and satisfactory settle-
ment ‘for:the protectidn of minorities in
Turkey, ‘when in an acdress-at
this after-.
noons ‘session; he.insisted upbn:
an-ex--
change:of
the Greek: pogilation/in:Anato--.
_ liaforthe
.Turks in Mucedonia:: He de-u.
mandeéd exciusion of allforeign ntacfer: -
ence
in-Turkey, :which he said..would
.-
protect:the ‘remaining finorities, as:
the
Turks had always been able to get -along
with other IN¥ationals when theykept out
ST. CROIX AVIS
ofpolitics: and were ot stirred up by
outside influences.
Ismet Pasha
declared
that Turkey would not accept
Lord
Cur-
zon’s iproposals:to
have. the
. Leaguye
of
Nations
administer
the
affairs of. the.
minorities
as that
would
mean that
the
foreign.. powers: would. continue their. in-
terference
in,Turkish
affairs-and
encour-
age -the
minorjties
to
appeal
to . the
League
:of Nations... This
plan,
he
as-
serted, .would resultin
the exploitation
of
miporities for, political ends .under
“‘the. . ?yng
eleak .of .humanitarjanism,”
The Turkish delegate revie
.ed the entire
story..of
-Tyrkey from
the:time ofthe
-
conquest of.Constantinople. ghe Tuarks,
-
he _said, .bad lived, peacefully
.with
the.. fareeks.
.and
Armenians _until
a2
.
hundred
years.ago, .when the Russians
.
began; .agitating agaipst
the
Mohamme-
.
dans
under
the
pretense
that
Russia
-
~
was the proteetor of Orthodox_Christians
‘
in
Turkey.
He charged
Russia
with
. being responsible
' for the ‘atrack
Mr.
Gladstone
made on: Tirkey in
behalf
of
the Armenians
and.
maintained
that the
-
so-called.
.Turkish'atroeities
against
Ar-
menigns frequently
bad beenin
the na
.
ture.qf:zeprisals for.pogroms perpetrated
.
-by the Armeniavs throughengouragement.
from;Russia,
which wanted some. excuse
for :sinv;edigsxz nßurkey. . The Armenians
broux,tgqx__ enmassaces
onwthemselves,.
~
Ismet-Pashadeclared.
'"Lhey have abus-
ed .Turkish: generosity..and,
dajbled .in.
DO‘tS..l.?%@e* Jews -have.pever
had any trou-
ble in Turkey.that proves that the Greeks
-
and the &mmi&&&%wbeen responsible
| for:their differences.in Turkey, they were
.
firedby the.example
of other Greeks, the
‘.
Bul%?_ia_n? aa?o%@s.
;s%-.imit_am them in’
-
the bope of upsetting.the Turkish Goy-.
ernment”’.;, I;A_ncg:;4f;ngl 40" Ismet Pasha,
‘
thet:e.aref.fg)oqq;;gu_tg@@'irjes‘_i_n.:_"l‘,uykey
which
can claim:the right to belongito any ocher
nation, thus disposiag
..of .the ‘Armenian
claim fora nationai heme
in Turkey.
Lausanne,. Dec..l2th. Lord Curzon
re-
.
plied.in a spirited manner to Ismet Pasha
-
saying it
w-s the first: time the
confer-
.
encs, has
.seen.
the
Fyrkish del:>gate
as a-
.
historian,
and slways thought
of him
.
before:
as-
a -soldigr
.and a diplomat.
The
Secretary for:Foreign
Affairs said
the conference:
was. .dealing
with the
affairs of people in..the
greatest
distress
.
and must find a solution for
the problem
of the miserable
refugees,
and
without
regard -for an@ient-,histm&y.
and
must
~
framea treaty which would
protect
Lthese -
- unhappy
.people.
He
called
the
atten-
tion of the :conference
to
the
fact
that
Ismet Pasha
had
not
mantioned
the Al-
.
lied plans for solving
the diffzrences
of
.
the minoritiesin :Lurkey
whnich Lord
.
Curzon had preseated.at
the opening
of
-
today’s session, but had devoted himself
.
to history and.an -attack
upon
the
Lea-
-
gue of Nations
which
mightbe useful
-
to Turkey.
- In: emphatic
toanes, he de
:
.
nounced dsmet’s ;dg;?an_ds
that
there be
:
a formal-exchangeof Turkish and
Greek
pop?gxim@;‘an'l
declared
that the minor-
ities must remain in both' countries.
Af-
ter remarking
that from 600,000
to
900,
000 Christians already
had
been
expa-
triated
from
Turkey
within
the
last
three or four months and
-had
become
a
charge on the :Greek Government,
Lord
Curzon said; *‘lsometimes.
wonder if the
Turkish Government
has fullyconsidered
the
economic
results
of tlis
gigantic
transference
of peoples
to
whick
there
is
no parsllel
jin modern
history
and
by
which it is expected
in
many
cases
Turkey
will lose
much
meore
than
she
gains.
[ jmplore
Ismet
Pasha
to
ap-
proach this question
in a
spirit of equity,
justice
and
humanity
and
with
all
se-
riousness’’. epntinued
Lord Curzon
‘‘and
I fear
that
this
address
of Ismet
Pas-
ha
will
cause
great
disappointment
throughout
the civilized
World.
[
am
surprised
at .his
long
speech
with
no
reply
in it jto the
Allied proposals.
I
am bitterly disappointed
with it M. Veni-
zelos
spoke
.in .support,
and
expressed
his
surprise
at Ismet
Pasha’s
insistenc:
upon
the exchange
of populations,
which
was wholly against
humanritarian
princi-
ples.
. Ismet
Pasha
spoke again,
saying
he had not
really
had
time to
consider
the Allied plan as
reprssented
by
Lord
Curzou,
byt would study
it
and give
a
detailed
reply.
Lord Curzon urged
him
to de this tomorrow.. Ismet Pasha
asked
formore time, but Lord Curzon retorted,
“*I.s3t up until two thirty this. morning
and
lam sure that if the Turkish
dele-
gate sits
up until tomorrow morning,
he
can
be
prepared
to
.speak
tomorrow.
Ismet laughed and agreed,
so the session
will be resumed
tomorrow.
.London,
Dec.
12th.—The
collapse
of
the
Allied Premiers
mnegotiations
here,
it is
becoming
evident,
was
even
more
complete
than
'at
first
supposed,
since
the one outstanding
development
which
has
teen
seized
upon
by
the
optimists
namely the scrapping
of the Balfour note
by Great ‘Britain,
is
now
said
to
have
been acelaimed
prematurely.
Mr. Bonar
Law admitted
as much
in
the
House
of
Commons
this afternoon,
and from other
sources
it is
learned
that
the
haste,
of
part of the continental
press
to
consider
Lord Balfour’s
utterance
as
a
thing of
the past
is unwarranted.
A ministéer
was
preaching
a
special
sermon
on
the
subject
of
temperarce.
H 2 said:
‘‘There
are
only
two
drinks
mentioned
in Psalms.
One
is
wine that
maketh
glad the heart
of
man,
ard the
other
is water,
with
which
the
wild
asses
quaanch
their thirst.
You
can take
your choice of either.””—The Pa‘hfinder
D:c. 2ng.
’ :
HEIRESS TO NED POOR
ARTIST.
Miss
Dellora
Angell, of Chicago,
heir-
ess
to $38.000,000,
is to wed
Lester
Nor-
ris,”a ¢ )mmercial
artist
and
her
school-
mate sweetheart.
She declares
they will
live a simple domestic
life.—lbid.