HOPE FOR PEACE

Taranaki Daily News, 29 September 1922, Page 5

HOPE FOR PEACE

KEIUL TO MEET POWERS. AGREES TO CONFERENCE. CONSULTING ANGORA. OFFICIAL REPLY AWAITED. By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. London, Sept. 27. Kemal Pasha has sent a message agreeing to a conference with the Powers on the Near East question. Received Sept. 28, 11.40 pan. London, Sept. 27. Mr. G. Ward Price telegraphs from Constantinople that Hamid Bey announced that he had received a message from Kemal stating clearly that he was prepared to agree to the proposed conference, but he was consulting the Angora Assembly before making an official reply. The Allies are now in telegraphic communication with Angora.— United Service. BRITISH CABINET MEETS. WAITING FOR KEMAL’S REPLY. TURKS STILL IN ZONE. Received Sept. 28, 8.20 p.m. London, Sept. 27. Cabinet sat for an hour and a-half. It had been hoped to consider the Kemalist reply, but none arrived. Cabinet then considered the incursion of Turkish troops into the neutral sone, where they still remain. General Harrington has been given do time limit, but has full discretionary powers. EXODUS FROM CONSTANTINOPLE. DISORGANISED CONDITIONS. Received Sept. 28, 8.30 p.m. London, Sept. 27. Mr. Martin Donohue, the Daily Chronicle’s Constantinople correspondent, reports that the exodus continues, similar to that witnessed on the day preceding the Balkan war in 1912. Trade is demoralised, and shipping offices are besieged by would-be passengers. Even the Sultan may demand a passport to Switzerland or England, rather than be locked up in the Xgildiz kiosk by the Nationalists.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable ATTITUDE OF THE LEAGUE. Received Sept. 28, 5.5 pjn. Geneva, Sept. 27. The Assembly of the League of Nations unanimously adopted the revised resolution with reference to the League’s intervention in the Near East crisis, expressing sat isfaction at the proposed international conference and agreeing that the League was ready to render service without interfering in any way with the proposed negotiations. This finally disposes of all suggestions that the League should intervene in the Near East. The Assembly finishes on Saturday. A SOVIET MOVE. NEAR EASTERN ALLIANCE Berlin, Sept. 27. The Golos Rosciji. a Russian newspaper published here, states that the Soviet is negotiating for the formation of a Near East Entente between Russia. Turkey, Persia, Afghanistan and Mongolia. The Soviet commissary, Karachan. lias issued a Note in Berlin emphatically protesting against the exclusion of Russia and her Allies from the Near East Conference. Russia refuses to allow herself to be disavowed by Western Europe or to acknowledge any disposition made without the Soviet’s participation. Russia and Turkey are agreed regarding the character of the freedom of the Dardanelles. The Soviet considers that the various English attempts to solve the Near East crisis will not lead to positive results or prevent new wars. Russia is prompted by the desire for a peace based upon equality and full Turkish rule for all Turkish territories. INDIANS PROTEST. London. Sept. 27. A public meeting of Indians residing in London, held at the Essex Hall, protested against the Government’s Near Eastern policy, which the speakers described as provocative and calculated to plunge the Near East into another racial war. The settlement should be by negotiation. The meeting passed a resolution that no terms which interfered with the full sovereign rights of the Turkish State or derogated from the freedom of the Sultan Khalifa and as custodian of she holy places would be acceptable to ;he King’s Indian subjects.