THE SECRET TREATIES
DISPOSAL OF TURKEY IN ASIA AGREEMENT BETWEEN RUSSIA, FRANCE, AND BRITAIN STATEMENT BY LORD ROBERT CECIL (Ree. November 29, 7.45 p.m.) Petrograd, November 28. An agreement made in the spring of 1016, and ratified in February of this year between Rußsia, France, and England lias boon published. It gayo Russia the Erzcrum, Trebizond, Bitlis, and Van villayets. France was to recoivo tho seaboard of the Syria and Adana villayet and Lesser Armenia. England was to receive Lower Mesopotamia, with special rights at Haifa and Jaffa. Between the English and French zones there wae to bo an independent Aramiau State. Alexandr'otta was to bo a free port, and Palestine a protectorate under Russia, France, and England. There was also to bo a neutral zone in Persia, through Isphahan, within the Russian sphere.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Aesn.
QUESTION IN THE BRITISH PARLIAMENT TERRITORIAL AGGRANDISEMENT DENIED. (Roc. November 29, 7.45 p.m.) London, November 28. In the House of Commons, in reply to a question, Lord Robert Cecil (Un-der-Secretary for Foreign Affairs), said that it was not true that the secret treaties which had been published at Petrograd revealed the fact that. tho Allies were committed to vast territorial aggrandisement. — Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.
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Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 57, 30 November 1917, Page 5
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