LAUSANNE CONGRESS.

Auckland Star, Volume LIV, Issue 130, 2 June 1923, Page 7

LAUSANNE CONGRESS.

QUESTIONS OF TERRITORY. ALL AMICABLY SETTLED. (By Cable. —Press Association.—Copyright. • LAUSANNE, June 1. Agreement has been reached on all outstanding territorial questions. Italy will keep the island of Castellorizzo, off the coast oi Anatolia, and the Turks will have the Rabbit Islands, near the entrance to the Dardanelles, north of Tenedos. The Maritza frontier has been definitely settled.—l A. and N.Z. Cable.) AMERIOAN TREATIES. POINTS OF CONTENTION. WASHINGTON, June 1. The State Department has announced that Mr. Grew, the United States observer at Lausanne, has been given full powers to negotiate with lsniet Pnsha new treaties of amity and commerce between the United States and Turkey. Informal conversations have proceeded satisfactorily. It is understood tbat the main point of contention is the capitulatory right which Turkey declared null and void at the beginning of the war and which the United States desires to maintain. —(A. and N.Z.) V.M.C.A. SUPPRESSION. LONDON, June 1. The branches of the Young Men's Christian Association which have been suppressed by the Turks belong to the American association, and have nothing to do with the work of the British V.M.C.A., which is only concerned with British troops.—-(A. and N.Z. Cable.)