TURKISH PEACE TERMS.

Press, Volume LIX, Issue 17750, 30 April 1923, Page 9

TURKISH PEACE TERMS.

DISCUSSIONS AT LAUSANNE THE CAPITULATIONS* PROBLEM. (by cabm—nwss association—coptbioht.) _. (AUSTRALIAN AHD N.Z. CABMS ASSOCIATION) (Received April 29th, 5.5 p.m.) ' LAUSANNE, April 28. The Turks have proposed a form of words, which in the opinion of the Allied delegates will have the effect of abolishing the Capitulations as from September, 1914, when the Turks, without the consent of the Powers, declared them to be abolished. It is pointed put that this will make it possible for the Turks legally to claim arrears of taxes from Allied companies and also annul the proceedings of the Consular courts since their establishment in 1918. Mf% Grew, American delegate, said the United States wished it to be understood that they had neiver consented to the proposition that rights acquired under treaty should be abrogated by the United States' later action. M. Pelle (France) is leaving to~confer with M. Poincare. It is understood that he carries new concession projects suggested by lemet Pasha for the 1914 concessions which have been superseded by Angora's approval of the Chester scheme.

RUSSIAN REPRESENTATION.

LAUSANNE, April 27. M. Vorowsky, the Kussian Soviet representative at Bome, and one of the delegates of the former Russian delegation at Lausanne, has arrived and notihed the Secretary-General that he is prepared to receive communications in regard to the Conference. BRITAIN AND IRAQ. DURATION OP; OCCUPATION. (Received April 29th, 11.55 p.m.) LONDON, April 29. ' The "Sunday Express" says Sir Percy Cox, British Higk Commissioner, at a farewell banquet at Bagdad foreshadowed that the British occupation in Mesopotamia would last four years longer. He declared he could not speak for the Government except to state that peace with Turkey was essential. He had no doubt that the British would stay until Mesopotamia could stand alone, with ultimate independence, which would have been finally achieved in four years.