LAUSANNE

Evening Star, Issue 18136, 28 November 1922, Page 9

LAUSANNE

RUSSIAN DELEGATE’S VIEWS. TRYING TO MAKE TROUBLE. Press A*soci»lion- -By Telegraph—Copjrigbt PARIS, November 27. (Received November 28, ah 9 a.m.) Rakowsky, interviewed by the ‘Matin’s’ Lansarmo carrcapondGnt, declared' that lie had come to take part in the discussions which a fleet Russia, including not only the Straits, but Turkey’s Asiatic frontiers, ■her financial and economic reconstruction, and tho refitriotion of her armies. Ho said tliat Russia favored the freedom of tho Dardanelles for commetroo, hut not for warships. She would prefer to see tho .Straits controlled by a Power bordering the Straits rather than by the British Fleet. He could understand Great Britain, demanding that she should dominate tho Straits In tiro name of freedom; but _he> did nob believe that France, after, seeing what British freedom meant in regard to the Suez Canal and elsewhere, wonld agree to hand over another naval cross road. Ho was of opinion that the French interests were tho same an those of tho Sonet—to have the Straits free under Turkish control. —A. and N.Z. Cable. PARIS, November 27. (Received November 28, at 10 a.m.) Tho Foreign Office denies that Rakowsky has been invited to Lausanne to discuss all questions. The invitation definitely specified tho Straits question.—A. and N.Z. Cable. A LAW OF THE PROPHET. CONSTANTINOPLE, Nov. 26. The manufacture of alcoholic liquors has boon decreed unlawful. —A. and) N.Z. Cable. AMERICA AND'MOSUL OILFIELDS. LORD CURZON’S ASSURANCE. LAUSANNE, November 26. (Received November 28, at 9.20 a.in.) Lord Curzon, intend ewes- -by Mr Ward Price regarding Air Childs’s intervention, said that the British delegation welcomed his statement. There was no divergence of views between the American and tho British Governments regarding tho policy of the open door in tho Near East, where complete accord prevails in the matter of British and American interests. Mr Price says that Mr Childs’s statement! is interpreted in some quarters as a challenge to British commercial expansion in tho Near East; but with reference to the Mosul oilfields there were the best reasons for behoving that intervention was quite remote. —‘ The Times.’ LONDON, November 26. The Lausanne correspondent oi ‘The Times ’ comments that Mr Cliilds’fl statement may bo taken as an objection to any further Angora or tripartite arrangements.—‘Tho Times.’