MENACE OF RUSSIA.

Taranaki Daily News, 23 September 1922, Page 5

MENACE OF RUSSIA.

PLANS TO HELP TURKEY. RECOGNITION OF SOVIET. AIM TO FORCE ALLIES. By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. Received Sept. 22, 5.5 p.m. London, Sept. 21. How Russia proposes to utilise the Turkish victory to make friends with the Mahommedan peoples and force the Allies to recognise the Soviet Republic, has beei revealed by a secret circular published by The Times. It is addressed by M. Karakahan, Foreign Minister at Moscow, to representatives abroad. The plan is to concert measures with ths Angora Government to compel the Allies to recognise Russia as an intermediary on behalf of Turkey, thus forcing them ;j modify their refusal to recognise the Soviet Government. Naturally the Allies strongly resist this, and therefore the Soviet representatives abroad have been directed to placate the European Governments by a temporary partial concession towards the demand made at Genoa. The circular, which is marked very secret, summons a conference of represent! tives at Berlin at the end of September o arrange a common policy. The circular does not mention military measures in favor of Turkey, but Russia has already mobilised forces on the Roumanian frontier, which will be available either to keep Roumania neutral or advance on Thrace to co-operate in a Turkish invasion. “But it is by no means certain,” says an article in the Manchester Guardian, “that Russia will be content wi h helping Turkey to recover Constantinople. Russian sentiment will not allow Turkey being helped to keep it, because it would terminate the dream of a Russian Constantinople. Thus Rusisa may prefer to leave the question of ownership for the present unsettled.”—Times and United Service. IF MAHOMMEDANS RISE. PERIL TO AUSTRALIA. Received Sept. 22, 8.5 p.m. Sydney, Sept. 22. At a Millions Club luncheon, Sir Joseph Carruthers, referring to the danger of a Mahommedan war from the Near East troubles, said Australia would be the one part of the Empire most endangered in such a war. She could, and probably would, be attacked. —Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. UNITY OF THE EMPIRE. POWER BEHIND THE LEAGUE. SOLIDARITY IN CRISIS. Received Sept. 22, 8.5 p.m. Geneva, Sept. 21. At a meeting of the combined British delegations the following were presentBritain: Lord Balfour, Mr. A. L. Fisher Colonel John Ward, Lord Robert Cecil, Mr. Hurst (substitute delegate and expert adviser) and Mrs. Coombe Tennant. India: Lord Chelmsford, the Maharajah of Nawanagar, Sir Sivaswamy Aiyer, Mr. Charles B. Fry. Australia: Sir J. Cook, Sir M. Sheldon, Mr. Justice Rich, and Messrs. Boyce and Dale. Canada: Messrs. Fielding, Lapointe, and Larkin. New Zealand: Sir F. Allen, Sir F. Bell, Sir A. Steel-Maitland. South Africa: Sir E. Walton, Mr. Gilbert Murray, Lord Robert Cecil, and Sir Michael Strakosch. The warmest assurances of solidarity were given, and it was unanimously resolved to act in the crisis as a unit. The Maharajah of Nawanagar, in the assembly to-day, declared that one virtue of the British nation was that, however the Dominions of the Empire might differ among themselves, when threatened by a common fate they were a united family. The co-operation of the British delega tions in this crisis is regarded here as of the greatest importance, owing to the fact that each self-governing part of the British Empire is separately represented and the combined delegations equal numerically and in voting powers France, Belgium, Spain, Italy, Holland and Portugal, or any other six Continental nations.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. LABOR OPPOSES WAR. PREMIER GIVES ASSURANCES. BELIEF IN SETTLEMENT. Received Sept. 22, 10.20 p.m. London, Sept. 21. An official communique states a deputation from the general council of trades unions met Mr. Lloyd George, Sir Robert Horne, and Sir L. Worthington Evans at Downing Street. Mr. Ben Tillett, Miss Bondfield and Mr. J. H. Thomas expressed the council’s views on the Near Eastern situation, and Mr. Lloyd George replied: It is unofficially stated that the Labor leaders expressed the opinion that the Dardanelles should be kept neutral, but this is a world matter and not a question fur the British nation alone. Moreover, the presence of Allied forces on the Asiat.c side of the Straits was indefensible. solution of the problem could be obtained by negotiation. It is understood Mr. Lloyd George assured the deputation that the Government was as anxious as they were to maintain peace, and he believed a settlement would be secured. The executive of the Miners’ Federation adopted a resolution emphatically disagreeing with the Government’s Near Eastern policy, and declaring it will oppose by all possible means any step taken that will involve workmen in further bloodshed; also expressing the opinion that the whole question should be referred to the League of Nations for final determination. NEAR EAST RELIEF. SCHEME HELD UP. FOR ALLIED INSTRUCTIONS. Received Sept. 22, 10.30 p.m. Washington, Sept. 22. Admiral Bristol has telegraphed to the State Department that lack of instructions from the Allied Governments to their representatives in Constantinople prevented him from working out a comprehensive plan for international co-operation in Near East relief work. He had conferred with the British and Italian High CommissionI ers, but they were unable to take any action. THE GREEK ARMY. CALLING UP YOUTHS. Received Sept. 22, 9.5 p.m. Athens, Sept. 21. The 1923 class of conscripts has been i called to the colors.—Reuter Service.