LONDON CONFLUENCE

Hokitika Guardian, 14 March 1921, Page 2

LONDON CONFLUENCE

IVSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. CONCESSIONS TO TURKS. LONDON, March 11. The Turks have been given clearly to understand that the modification suggested to the Sevres Treaty are conditional upon the Turks furnishing definite assurances to act honourably. The withdrawal of the British troops from Constantinople is not to lie carried out until the Turks demonstrate their honesty.

The purpose of the modifications is intended to enable Turkey to re-establish herself as a nation, re-modelled upon European lines. She is being placed on an equal footing* in the Dardanelles with the other nations.

Turkey may possibly be yet offered the presidency of the Straits Commission.

The League of Nations will probably appoint a neutral Governor for Smyrna.

TUR KO-GREEK HOSTILITY. LONDON, March 12

An official communique states that after the presentation of the new Allied proposals to them, the Turks entered a protest against the maintenance of a Greek garrison in Smyrna. They had accepted the .proposed Allied commission on Eastern Thrace, which they considered indispensable to Turkey. They cast on Greece all the responsibility for the delay of peace in the East, and they undertook to place the proposals made I ref ore their Government.

Mr Lloyd George reminded the Turks that the original proposals for the enquiry regarding Eastern Thrace was rejected by the Greeks, and the Commission had only conditionally departed to Turkey. The new proposals, which were prepared to meet this situation, entirely superseded the original proposal, and must be examined as a whole without reference to the previous proposal.

TITRKO-FRENCH AGREEMENT. PARIS, March 12

The French Premier, M. Briand, has returned to Paris. Before leaving, he concluded an agreement with the Turks under which the French will immediately evacuate (Tilioia, the Turks agreeing to protect the Armenians and all minorities,