THE NEAR EAST.

Hokitika Guardian, 14 November 1922, Page 3

THE NEAR EAST.

DELEGATES TO CONFERENCE. REUTEII’S TELEGRAMS. (Received this dav at 10.30 a.m.) CONSTANTINOPLE, November 12. Several delegations left for Lausanne before the postponement "as announced, including Serbians, Roumanians and Kemalists. Isniet arrived at Ijausaune and decided to proceed to Paris. Apparently be will occupy the interim conversing with French statesmen. IN MESOPOTAMIA. (Received this day at 10.30 a.m 1 LONDON, November 13. Air Percival Phillips at the conclusion of a tour of Mesopotamia, on behalf of the “Daily Mail” writes that the outlook is far from encouraging. The present year’s expenditure is estimated at six hundred thousand, of which two hundred thousand is for maintenance of British civil administration, and t’-o remainder for military air- forces. The crying need of the moment is an annual loan of at least a million. The tieaty of Alliance signed on 9th. October, ooiipcd with tile suppression of anti-Britisli agitation, removed the feeling of pessimism previously pervading British advisers, but the new treaty will not work miracles. Extreme pro-Arab British officials nr.- ton prone to regard the era of pence as signed and that political stability and financial prosperity has began. King Feisul does not really trust Britain or bis Afinisters and his people trust neither the King nor the Ministers. More than half the population are fanatical checks who are opposed to all forms of civil power.

UNHAPPY ALLIED RELATIONS. /Received this dav at 9,20 a.m.) LONDON, Nov. 13.

The ‘-Tillies” Paris correspondent discloses that, (oinpleto contusion existed lietween the views of Great Britain and France over the postponement of the Lausanne Conference, and the relations were strained. The correspondent adds that it is with strange reluctance that tin- Fro'ioh commit themselves to a clear cut programme. The inclination persists to pass over lightly Turkish acts of prnvociPion and defiance in Constantinople, ft is understood permission was granted France and Italian High Commissioners to agree, if necessary, to a declaration of a state of seige. but the permission is so hedged about with conditions that virtually it would not be workable, until too late. Tn any case it seems most probable, that the moment for such action has gone, and the proclamation of a state of seige now would more likely precipitate a conflict.

NEAR EASTERN PROBLEM. (Received this dav at 11.30 a.m.) | LONDON. Nov 13. I

Though the situation at Constant!- 1 liople i.s still eler triciil, the Allies have | not yet carried out the threat to ostnb- , lisli a state of siege. Ii j s emphasised that Britain throughout insisted that the Loiisnnne Conference was bound to prove abortive, unless the -lies reaeli'cd 'a preliminary agreement. Both France and Italy fully agreed to this view. The jmstpoiienif nts of the Cun- : feruiice was entirely due to the difiicultiex of arranging a meeting between Lord Curzon ,AI. Poiuearo anti Signer ; Mussolini, owing to the British elec- j lions, French Budget debate and Ital-j i..u Cabinet leeonstruction. Lord Curscou strongly opposed meeting at Lau- | saline, oil the eve ol the eoolerenee on , the grounds that there was no time I there for the Allies lo reach unanimity, j It is 'denied that ike postponement of j the Conference js due tu any Inter- AI- ; lied Anglo-French differences on prill- I I ipie. ; Official despattliis to-day show the | Xcar East situation continues grave. . ('•oi-lniitinoplo is described as being on j the idle of a volcano. The Allied . Commissioners warned the Turks tbat j .eie measures would he taken unless j Hiev adopt forthwith a more moderate attitude. It is regarded as < ertnm that there will he an interchange oi . views betv. I*, 'ii lord Cumin and AI. dnearo with reference to the drat ling

of a programme for Lausanne. ] A SUPREME COURT DECISION, i Received this day at 12.25 p.m.' , • XFAY YORK. November 13. j The Japanese decision case arose out | of tile application by Taknji Yamashita j and Charles Hio Kono, for liaturali- I nation for the purpose i f forming a j business paitnersliip, also the applies- j t'ion of Olawii for .American citizenship j on the ground that he was a descendant of the white tribe, Aimii in j J; p.m which be (•"aimed wes of tbo true (. .iiiensiaii sto.-k. T e Supreme , Court, while pointing out its decision, ill no way established a line on demarcation in the matter of intellectuality and upheld the ruling < f several lower j courts, which had agreed that the ,Ja- i janes' were clearly not Caucasians, therefore were net white within the meaning of tho law. i