STORMY ATMOSPHERE

Auckland Star, Volume LIII, Issue 307, 28 December 1922, Page 5

STORMY ATMOSPHERE

AT LAUSANNE CONGRESS. DEMANDS BY BULGARS. ARMENIANS IN ANATOLIA. (By Cable.—Press Association.—CopyrlgQt.> <ReceiTed 11.30 a.m.) LAUSANNE, December 27. After a three days' vacation, the Near Eaet Conference reassembled in a stormy atmosphere. It was decided, despite Turkish opposition, to hear unofficially statements by representatives of the Armenians, Bulgars, and Assyro-Chal-deans. at a meeting of a sub-committee of the Minorities Commission. The Bulgare demanded as indispensable to the resumption of satisfactory relations between Turkey and Bulgaria that Bulgar refugees, numbering 50,000, be allowed to return to Western Thrace. The Armenian delegates pointed out that 1,500,000 Armenians lived in Erivan, which could not sustain them, and they demanded the establishment of a national home in the province of Kars and around Lake Van, with a corridor to the Black Sea, excluding Trebizond, or, alternatively, a smaller home on the Gulf of Alexandretta.

The Athens correspondent of the "Daily Express" says that it is reported that the Angora. Government proposes to resume war if the Lausanne Conference collapses. M. Vcrizeloe has appealed to Britain to support the Greeks in Constantinople should the revolutionary regime in Athens collapse.— (A. and N.Z. Cable.) I ~~ ~~~ SAFETY OF MINORITIES. LEAGUE COMMISSIONERS. REJECTED BY THE TURKS. (Received 2 p.m.) LONDON, December 27. At the sitting of the Minorities Commission at Lausanne, the Turks refused to agree to exempt Christians from military service, or to accept the establishment by the League of Nations of High Commissioners, at Constantinople for the protection of minorities. —(A. and N.Z. Cable.)