THE DARDANELLES
BRITAIN RELAXES
AGREEMENT.BY POWERS
• LONDON, July 17.: The Mohtreux correspondent of "The Times", says that the Dardanelles Conference sat all day and finally agreed to the text of a convention whiclv, the drafting cbimmittee today, will prepare in its- final form for signing on. Monday at the historic castle '■■ off ■•• Chilion, -which Byron' iriimortalised. ■' .
The conference acceded to the Turkish demand for the abolition of the Straits Convention and permitted Turkey to begin regarrisoning- and refortifying coastal areas and islands guarding the Bosphorus and the Dardanelles.
The convention will be left open for signature by Italy arid other Lausanne Treaty signatories." il ;.: ' :
Britain had to concede most of her contentions, but the points in some cases were of practical importance.
::■ The; Castle of Chilion was the scene of the imprisonment of Francois Bonivard, the hero of Byron's poem "The Prisoner of Chilion." He was incarcerated, in the place for four years from 1530 by order of the Duke of Savoy w^th whom he was. in political conflict. ? ■ '
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Evening Post, Volume CXXII, Issue 16, 18 July 1936, Page 9
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169THE DARDANELLES Evening Post, Volume CXXII, Issue 16, 18 July 1936, Page 9
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