THE DARDANELLES.
BRITAIN MAKES CONCESSIONS. AGREEMENT AT CONFERENCE. (United Press Association—Copyright.) LONDON, July 17. The Montreux correspondent of “The Times” says that the Dardanelles conference sat all day and finally agreed to the text of a convention toi which the drafting committee to-day will give final form for signing on Monday at the historic Castle of Chilian, which Byron immortalised. The conference acceded to. the Turkish demand for abolition of the Straits Convention and permitted Turkey to begin • regarrisoning and refertifying the coastal areas and islands guarding the Bosphorus and the Dardanelles.
The convention will be left epen for the signature of Italy and other Lausanne signatories Britain had to concede most of her contentions, but the points in question were in some cases elf problematical practical importance.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 56, Issue 236, 18 July 1936, Page 5
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