21 APRIL 1923, Page 1

The so-called " Chester Concession " is creating remark- able

entanglements between France, America and Turkey. The Angora Parliament has granted full powers to Dr. Chester to undertake vast works of construction in Anatolia. A network of railways is to be built during the next fifteen years, after which the country is to blossom, if not exactly like the rose, at any rate with " asphalt pavements, blocks of new flats, dining cars, and, motor ploughs "—indeed, a little " home from home " for Dr. Chester,