ALLIED CONFERENCE.

Hokitika Guardian, 30 July 1917, Page 2

ALLIED CONFERENCE.

_ SOME DECISIONS. PARIS, July 20, Tho Allied Balkan Conference has ~ : resolved to terminate at the earliest - moment and simultaneously the AngloFrench and Italian occupation of Old Greece, Thessaly, alnd -Epirus, while ■ * maintaining the occupation, provisionally of the .triangle formed the Saute Quarante Road, and Epirus frontier. Under the Italo-Greek understanding Italy, France and Britain will retain the base at Corfu during , the war, reoognising tbo Greek sorereignty.

THEIR AGREEMENT. , v PARIS, July 28. • V Tho last sitting of th© Balkan Conference declared that the Allies were J clasely bound over for the defence of the rights of small peoples, larly in the Balkans. It resolved tJjJPyj the enemy must down arms and «nij when that aim had been accomplished could they make it impossible tos a : recurrence of the criminal aggression, for which the Ctontral Powers were responsible. M. Passitch, incivwrwed-, aajd th* alliance Greece waa about to revivo was stronger than ever, under M. Vanezelos’s energetic guidance, thereby strengthening the hopes of early repatriation.

AIMES’ PIiANS. PABIS, July SB. £ General* PattJn, Poch, Robartsoo,Cadoroa and Pershing privately <n*cuseed tie Allies’ general military interests, and the Allied Admirals dis- '■# cussed the submarine warfare.