CRISIS AT LAUSANNE.

Auckland Star, Volume LIII, Issue 296, 14 December 1922, Page 5

CRISIS AT LAUSANNE.

WARNING TO TURKEY.

PROTECTION OF MINORITIES

ATTITUDE MUST CHANGE.

BIGHTS OF ARMMENIANS.

mj Cable.—Press Association.—Copyrights (Tlecd-vcl ll.Si) ami LAUSANNE, December 13. Ismet Pasha informed the Lausanne Commission that he was willing to let 200,000 Greeks remain in Constantinople. Furthermore, all Greeks who night have to leave Turkey on the sysfcm of exchange would receive an indemlity. He added that there was no rcalon why Armenians should not live in Cice in Turkey without foreign inference. The Turks, he said, would forget the past. As to the question of an Armenian tome, this he considered as a new at(nnpt to break up Turkey, and lie would not consent to it.

lord Curzon, in reply, said that unless lie Turks changed their attitude immediately and radically on the minorities question, the Christian nations must fctve Lausanne and quit the conference. (A. »nd &Z. Cable.)

PROTECTION OF THE LEAGUE. REJECTED BY TURKEY. EXCLUSION OF FOREIGNERS. LONDON, December 13. The Marquis of Curzon, presiding at tie Rret Commission of the Near East Conference, invited the conference to approach the question of the protecting of minorities. He pointed out that if Christian minorities must be protected, Mobkm minorities in Europe were also entitled to protection. Tthe League of X'ations would provide guarantees and supervise their execution. Turkey had already accepted the basic principle of the rights of minorities.

Mr. R. W. ChUd, United States observer, demanded that the conference should not separate before finding a refuge for all minorities in the Near East. They must be given guarantees necessary for their free development,, and, if possible, given the national hearth promised by the Treaty of Sevres. The United. States believed that the ends to lie sought should be preventive rather thin mere succour of existing misery. The-United States would continue to help minorities.

lamet Pasha, replying to Lord Curzon, objected to the guarantee of the League of-Nations, as the Powers would continue to interfere in Turkey and iucite minorities to appeal to the League. He demanded the exclusion of all foreign interference in Turkey. While demanding *n exchange of populations, he assured th« conference that any community paying in Turkey would be assured in security through Turkey's goodwill and sense of-justice. He finally demanded mass emigration. . Lord Curzon replied that an exchange of population was impossible. Whatever exchange occurred minorities must remain Ismet's speech would cause disappointment throughout the world. He would wait till to-morrow for a further Turkish reply to' the Allied proposals. Isinet promised that'he would make a detailed reply. The Turks have agreed not to insist on-the total expulsion of G reeks from Constantinople. Several religious restrictions will be imposed on those renaming. They suggest that 300,0000 Turks shall leave Macedonia and that as •_. compromise 124,000 Turks shall be tllowed to stay in Western Thrace. It ■ generally expected that an agreement Tul.be reached regarding an exchange ff populations.—(A. and N.Z. Cable.)