THE NEAR EAST

Dominion, Volume 16, Issue 107, 22 January 1923, Page 6

THE NEAR EAST

TURKS WILL SIGN SEPARATE TREATY WITH AMERICA

IN EVENT OF RUPTURE AT LAUSANNE

BY TELEGHAPH—PRESS ASSOCIATION. —COPYRIGHT. (Rec. January 21, 5.5 p.m.) Lausanne, January 20.

It is understood that in the event of a rupture of the conference, the Turks have agreed to sign a separate treaty with tho United States, giving the latter more than the Allies ever demanded, including freedom of the Straits for loth warships and merchant ships, a complete open door, most-favoured-nation treatment, and juridicial guarantees to replace ' the capitulations. If the United States obtains such a treaty, it is intended to model other separate treaties upon it.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.

PERILOUS SITUATION IN THRACE

TURKISH AND GRECIAN FORCES ON MARITZA

(Rec. January 21, 5.5 p.m.) Paris, January 1$).Constantinople advices Hate that the situation in Thrace is daily growing more perilous. “urkish and Greek forces are facing each other on the Maritza. It is I elieved the Greeks have sixty thousand well-equipped men there. Firing lias ’■eon exchanged between Greek patrols and Turkish gendarnies on the Tpsala- Iront, while Turkish peasants fired on Greek advanced posts at Bondjuk. —Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.