DISPOSAL OF TURKEY.

Taranaki Daily News, 17 January 1920, Page 5

DISPOSAL OF TURKEY.

CONSIDERING THE PROBLEM. BRITISH AND FRENCH VIEWS. London, Jan..4. Part of the fruits of the bitter and prolonged fighting in Palestine is the iinal conference, for whicn the Premiers are gathering in Paris, at which the Turkish Empire will be carved up. M. Venizelos, the Greek Premier, was early on the scene, claiming Constantinople, but lie has no chance of winning.

French and British views clash. Britain does not want the dangerous and heavy responsibility of a mandate for the Straits, but insists on the expulsion of the Turks, separating the Sultan's temporal and religious privileges in Constantinople.

France insists that the Turks should -remain in Constantinople under drastic French and British control, to which Russia can later be added. France's heavy financial interests in Turkey and her Mohammedan 1 interests in North Africa prompt most tender treatment. The correspondent of the Timea at Paris says that France still looks to Russia as a future ally, and intends to conserve her rights in the Dardanelles This decision is all-important to the Mohammedan world. The circumstances place upon France arid Britain the heavy responsibility of preventing anarchy, whether Bolshevism or fanaticism, sweeping across from the Mediterranean to the China seas.