THE HEAR EAST

Hokitika Guardian, 28 April 1923, Page 3

THE HEAR EAST

AfSTBAt.tAN AND N.Z. CAULK ASSOCIATION

A TER KPM I SUGGESTION*. LA LEA NX if. ApHI 2th Tim Turks suggested that «>;*• Straits Convention could be debated bv neighbouring Xtni.es and that Russia. should pniticipa'-o in the debate next session.

LA US AN X K GONE Ell KXC’K. LONDON, April 23. At the Political-Territorial .Commission the Turks accepted tlie status quo re Irak frontiers, leaving England and Turkey to arrange, or after 12 months, the League.

Greece opposed Turkey’s request for the League to fix the Thrace frontier on the Maritza.

The Turks asked the .Allies to leave Constantinople, hut agreed to await the signing of the treaty fir-t.

The Turks have raised the question of the island of CasteloriK.i, allotted to Italy by Article XV. They claimed it shook! he handed hack, on the ground that it is within the Turkish territorial waters, being separated only by a narrow strait horn the mainland, thus forming a part ol Anatolia. The Allies' views was that the matter was not open to discussion andsaici the claim was not raised liolore, and the Allies had laid it down that they would not reopen negotiations on matters on which an agreement had alreadv been reached. There are no Moslem Turks on the island. The Turks suggested arbitral ion. This was refused. The next move is with lsinet. The Turks also pressed for the island of Adakaloh, now in Roumanian hands, on the grounds of its sentimental value. President Rumhold definitely refused this.