THE NEAR EAST.

Hokitika Guardian, 4 January 1923, Page 2

THE NEAR EAST.

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. TRUCULENT TURKS. CONSTANTINOPLE. Jan Tlhj Angora National Assembly debate culminating in drastic secret instructions to lsmot Pasha- was marked by uncompromising speeches, the defence Minister declared the army was readv and its fighting force was greater today than when it ousted the Greeks from Asia Minor. The Angora Press stresses the address delivered at Smyrna by the met of the Afghan Mission, in which lie declared Turkey and Afghanistan wore designated bv God to uplift the -Moslem world, adding that they will succeed in realising flic .Moslem renaissai ico. ISM KT’S INSTRUCTIONS. CONSTANTINOPLE. Jan 2. It is reported Isinet Pasha, is instructed to insist at Lausanne Conlerence on the integral maintenance ot the Turkish National Pact and was authorised to sign a- separate peace witn the Powers willing to subscribe to tin. terms of the Pact. \ DISPUTED PROPOSAL. (Received this day at S.SO a.in.) LAUSANNE, January 1. Following on the British refusal to consent to the removal of the acuine-ni.-al Patriarchate from Constantinople. Turkish delegations while insisting that the Pati iarehate could ml remain, agreed to consider the Greek suggestion tha ttho Patriarchs administi sitivt* powers In* delegated to a vicar. It is reported the conference will he adjourned if an agreement is notreached regarding the Patriarchate.