THE NEAR EAST.
THE PEACE CONFERENCE.
ATTITUDE OF AMERICA.
OBSERVERS TO ATTEND.
By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright, Received Oct. 29, 11.5 p.m. Washington, Oct. 28. Sir Auckland Geddes (British Ambassador at Washington) has handed the State Department the Allied invitation to the United States to attend the Near East peace conference at Lausanne. It is understood the American Government will reply that it has decided to accept the invitation, but will send only observers to the conference.
Thus the United States will not be represented officially, but its representatives will report the proceedings to Washington. The declaration that more than one observer will be sent by the United States indicates that besides an expert in international law, representatives of the army and the navy will also be sent. The reply says the United States will not be represented officially, because the United States had not declared war on Turkey and is not a party to the Treaty of Sevres. Observers will be sent, however, to watch American interests that will be affected by any decision regarding Near East problems, which include the protection of the freedom of the Dardanelles and the protection of religious minorities. ■—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.
UNSATISFACTORY NEWS.
EXPULSION OF FOREIGNERS.
Constantinople, Oct. 27. News from Smyrna continues unsatisfactory. The Nationalists refuse to recognise the capitulations (laws to protect foreigners), and are busily expelling the remaining Greeks and Armenians. The imported goods of Greek and Armenian consignees have been seized, and heavy taxation of foreigners is threatened. Dock laborers are demanding a minimum of £1 sterling for a 7 J-hour day. The captain of a foreign merchantman who pointed out that this policy would drive out European merchants received the startling reply from a high official: “That is what we want.”
Similar conditions prevail at the Black Sea ports, where it is reliably reported that a. Frenchman was imprisoned and bastinadoed for importing a few bottles of wine into dry Kemalistan. The Allied High Commissioners have protested strongly against the abolition of the capitulations, as well as the decision not to recognise the financial obligations of the Constantinople Government. THE CONFERENCE. DELEGATE’S REFUSAL TO ACT. Paris, Oct. 27. M. Bouillon sent a letter to M. Poincare, declining to represent France at the Lausanne conference on the ground that it is necessary that everyone should have implicit faith in the impartiality of the negotiators, and the attacks the British Press made on him had shown that the British public refused to understand his role and his ideas.
M. Poincare replied, thanking M. Bouillon for ihe work of peace he had recently accomplished in the Near 'East.
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Taranaki Daily News, 30 October 1922, Page 5
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