BRITAIN AND TURKEY.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXVIX, Issue 8140, 16 May 1906, Page 5

BRITAIN AND TURKEY.

UNCONDITIONAL ACCEPTANCE REQUIRED. A FEW HOURS' GRACE. Reoeived Mny 15, 9.27 a.m. LONDON May, 14. Reuter'a Stamboul correspondent states that Sir Nicholas O'Couor, British Ambassador at Constantinople, replying to the Porte's agreement to evacuate Tabah, and the appointment of a Delimitation Commission, declared tbe form of the Turkish Note was unsatisfactory, and insisted upon an unconditional and oomplete acceptance of the British demands. The order gave tbe Sultan a few hours' grace. The Navy considers that the ultimatum expires to-day. THE PORTE FULLY ACCEPTS BRITAIN'S DEMANDS. EVERY REASON TO HOPE WR SATISFACTORY SETTLEMENT. / Received May 15, 11 5 p.m. LONDON, May 15. In the House of Commons Sir Edward Grey was cheered on announcing that he had just received information of the Porte's full acceptance of the British de mands, and assent to tbe telegram of April, 1892, as the basis of the delimitation, and that the joint commission gives the boundary of Rafeh in a south-easterly direotion to a point three miles from Akabab. Tbe reply gives every reason to hope that a completely satisfactory settlement of details will be arrived at,