LAUSANNE PEACE TERMS.

Press, Volume LIX, Issue 17699, 27 February 1923, Page 7

LAUSANNE PEACE TERMS.

ATTITUDE OF ANGORA

ASSEMBLY.

REPORTED MAJORITY FOR REJECTION. (B* CABLE—I'RESS ASSOCIATIOH—COPY?" (AUSTRALIAN AND N.2. ASSOCIATION.)

CONSTANTINOPLE, February '25

According to Press messages from Angora, a majority of the National Assembly, suppo: ted by the miiitai> authorities, demands the rejection of the Lausanne Treaty.

TURKISH NATIONALISM

ITS LATEST MANIFESTATION.

(Received February 27th, i .30 p.m.)

CONSTANTINOPLE, February 26. The Religious Committee of the National Assembly at Angora approved, amid applause, the Bill making it compulsory that males marry at the age of twenty-five, that all couples shall have a child every two years, and that any rich widower over filly years of age must take a second wife or support orphans.

The Bill provides for tho exemption from military service of ouo cliild in families of three.

FRANCE AND RUSSIA.

LONDON, February 25. The diplomatic correspondent of the "Daily Telegraph" says it is reported that a small Soviet mission has arrived secretly in PariSj and includes Admiral Behrens, who was M. Tchitcherin's naval adviser at Lausanne and Count Beckendorff, who recently were associated with negotiations between Moscow and Angora and Berlin and between Moscow and certain Baltic capitals. The Soviet hinted to the French unofficial promoters of a Franco-Bolshevik rapprochement tTiat a preliminary must be the excision of the Lausanne decision respecting "tfie Straits regime. The correspondent is of the opinion that, as this section is largely the work of Marshal Foch, General Weygand and Admiral Lacaze, the acquiescence of France would be inconceivable.