LAUSANNE

Evening Star, Issue 18160, 28 December 1922, Page 4

LAUSANNE

ATMOSPHERE ELECTRICAL. TURKS READY TO FIGHT. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON, December 27. The ‘Daily Express’s’ Athens correspondent says that it is reported! that the Angora Government proposes to resume the war if tho Lausanne Conference collapses. IST. Venizelos lias appealed to Great Britain to support the Greeks iu Constantinople should the revolutionary regime in Athens collapse. —A. and N.Z. Cable. CONFERENCE REASSEMBLES. ARMENIANS AND BULGAKS STATE VIEWS. LAUSANNE, December 27. After throe days’ vacation the conference reassembled in a stormy atmosphere. It was decided, despite Turkish opposition, to hear unofficially tho statements by' representatives of tho Armenians Bulgars at a meeting of the Sub-committee on Minorities. The Bulgars demanded as indispensable to tho resumption of satisfactory Turco-Balgar relations that the Bulgar refugees, numbering 60,000, be allowed to return to Western Thrace. The Armenian delegates pointed out that 1,500,000 Armenians lived! in Erivan, which could: not sustain them, and they demanded tho establishment of a national home for them in the province of Kar and round Lake Van, with a corridor to the Black Sea, excluding Trebizond, or alternatively a smaller home on the Gulf of Alexandretta. —A. and N.Z. Cable.