RESULT OF ALLIES’ NOTE.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 2486, 28 September 1922, Page 1

RESULT OF ALLIES’ NOTE.

ENTHUSIASM IN CONSTAN. TINOPLE. BELIEF THAT KEMAL WILL ACCEPT CONFERENCE. CONSTANTINOPLE, Sept, 25. People received the Allies’ Paris decisions with indescribablo enthusiasm., It is generally believed that Kemal will accept a conference. —A. and N.Z. cable. GREEKS DISSATISFIED. PEOPLE DISAPPOINTED. ATHENS, Sept. 25. The French Minister handed over the Allies’ Note, which Cabinet lengthily discussed. The people are keenly disappointed at the prospect of losing Thrace, which the newspapers indignantly refuse to countenance, demanding that the army be immediately reconstructed for the protection of Thrace. Tho National Assembly has been summoned for October 2. —A. and N.Z. cable. GENERAL SMUTS’S REPLY. NO LONGER NEED FOR UNION TO ASSIST.

CAPETOWN, Sept. 25. A Pretoria message states that General Smut’s reply to Mr Lloyd George expresses regret at the delay owing to his absence, and proceeds: “There seems to be no longer a call for the active intervention of tho Union Government.” General Smuts appreciates the determination of the Imperial Government to maintain the freedom of the Dardanelles, which was one of the most beneficial results of the Great War, but he most sincerely trusts that the military intervention of the Empire will not be necessary. “I believe,’’ he states, “that the measures taken bv the Imperial Government to safeguard the position of the Straits pending the meeting of the coming conference are adequate, and I rejoice at the more favourable turn of events which is largely due to the successful British diplomacy. So far as the Union is concerned, we could not undertake to participate in military operations in the East without calling Parliament together. I am relieved that the more reassuring information now in their possession renders such a step unnecessary.” General Smuts concludes: “In regard to peace in the Near East, the Government ventures to express the opinion that the future regime for maintaining the freedom of the Straits should bo placed under the League of Nations.” General Smuts trusts that such action will bo approved by the coming conference. —A, and N.Z. cable.