LAUSANNE CONGRESS.

Auckland Star, Volume LIII, Issue 309, 30 December 1922, Page 7

LAUSANNE CONGRESS.

CAPITULATIONS PROBLEM. TURKS UNCOMPROMISING. DEFECTIVE JUSTICE SYSTEM. (By Cable, Press Association. - Copyright.! I.ACSANXK, December 28. sir Horace Rumbold presented the report of the sub-commission on capitulations, owing to the Turks declining to change or replace their judicial svs tern, the sub-commission found itself mi able to proceed with it- work. Ismei Pasha, speaking on tiio report, insisted ib.u Turkey.- judicial system was equal to any i:t the uorld' H» flatly rejected tin- proposal f,„- an inter national court al The Hague „s being worse than the ~1,1 capil ula t ions ami an infringement of Turkey's sovereignty. M. Barron- 'France) said he could not accept Turkey's reply to the Allies' mod crate proposals. The Marqui- ~f Curzon expressed regret at the tone of |s me l Tasini's speech. It was Ibe most uncompromising yet made at the conference, and gave him the impression that the Turks did not want to reach an agreement. Ismct Pasha, in many private conversations,. had said that he wanted peace, but how could it be obtained after such a speech. Lord t'urzon mice more appealed to the Turk- to modify their altitude. It was no use Ismct Pasha trying to con vitue the world that the Turkish magistracy was above suspicion. Everybody knew that the mechanism of justice iii Turkey was defective. If Isnict Pasha bad -aid Iris Ui-t word, he i Lord I'urzoni did not see any use in going on. Count Hnviishi i.lnpan.) said he hoped that Turkey would recede from her uncompromising posit ion. Mr. R. W. Child United States!, in a long statement, fully supported ihe Allies' demands. Ismct Pasha, after hearing the various delegates, asked for time for reflection, and the sitting was adjourned. |A, and N.Z. Cable.i j GREEK FEAR OF WAR. REINFORCEMENTS TO THRACE. LONDON, December 20. The Athens correspondent of the "Daily Express" reports that war is considered inevitable in Oreere. M. Venizelos has telegraphed to the Revolutionary Government urging that reinforcement* be sent to the Thracian front immediately. Accordingly, the 1920 to ; 1922 classes of reservists have been .called up. and the whole army is moving toward Thrace. * A GRIM REMINDER. TURKEY AT BRITAIN'S MERCY. LONDON. December 29. Tbe diplomatic correspondent of tbe "Daily Chronicle" say that Britain's 'gesture in ordering ,the warships back to Constantinople- is a reminder to the Turks of the ultimate reality never mentioned at Lausanne, that British forces occupy, and can hold against any conceivable Turkish forces, the twin gates to the Straits, Gallipoli. and Chanak, that British naval power prevails to Constantinople's very quays, and that Hv virtue thereof Turkey's capital and her hopes of return to Europe are nltimatel", at Britain's mercy. It is a reminder of what a breakdown %if the negotiations a I Lausanne might mean. A Turkish Note has been banded to the Allied High < onimissioner.-. wbii b states that no warship over 1000 tons may remain in Smyrna harbour, and no second warship be admitted until her predecessor has left. 'The Note also forbids the lauding of men without permission, i A second Note says that the Turkish authorities must be previously advised of the intention of a warship to visit any Turkish port, also the purpose of the visit and length of the stay. No two war-hips will be admitted at the same time, and none between sunset and sunrise.-(A. and N.Z. Cable.) The revision of the Treaty or Sevres, which is now lieing discussed at Lausanne hv the Allies and tho Turks, is along the following lines: — 1 Evacuation of A*!a Minor hv the Creeks and Smyrna to revert to Turkey, with a special regime for the city area. •'. Creeks tr> retain Adrianoplc. but certain zones in F.astern Thrace to lie demilitarised, so that the Creeks could not threaten Constantinople and the Turks could not attack the Creeks. The new frontiers proposed would Ik- placed sixty-two miles from Constantinople. :!.' Turkey to have the whole of the Asiatic side of the Dardanelles.'on condition of its being demilitarised. 4. Callipoli to lie occupied by Allied forces, and their occupation to be el vended to Rodosto. 5. Turkey confirmed in possession of Constantinople and her laud forces to be raided to 8.1.000. fi Navigation of the Straits to be controlled by the International Commission. but under a Turkish President. 7. Constantinople to 1m- evacuated by the Allied troops within a certain period. These concessions when first made by no means satisfied Kemal. The position is that the Angora Coveriiment are at war with Oreei-e, for they do not recognise the Treaty of Sevres, which was signed hv the Sultan's Government, a:. they sav.*under duress, lint as the Treaty of Sevres was never ratified by the Turkish Parliament, the Allies are still techuically in a state of war with the Turkish Empire. The technical position, however. is of small moment compared with the actual, which is that the Sevres Treaty is in operation so far as the occupation of Thrace liv the Creeks is concerned. while the control of the Straits is bring exercised by the International Commission, relying on tin- sanction provided by the presence of an inter-Allied military force. Tbe zone of the Straits i- also in being, and any attempt to ,-r,.s.- them will bo resisted fit once.