CONFUSION

Feilding Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 4742, 14 November 1922, Page 2

CONFUSION

BRITISH AND FRENCH VIEWS. . ON THE LAUSANNE CONFER ENOE. DANGER OF CONFLICT IN NEAR EAST. (By Electric Cable.—Copyright). (Aust. and N.Z. Cable -Association). (Received Nov. 1-1. 11 a.m.) (Times). London, Nov. 13.

The Times Paris correspondent discloses the fact that complete confusion existed between the view of Britain and France over tho postponement of the Lausanne Conference ana the relations were strained. Tho correspondent adds: It is with a strange reluctance that the Froileh commit themselves to a clear-cut programme. Tho inclination persists to pass over lightly tho Turkish acts "of provocation and defiance in Constantinople. It is understood that permission was granted the Franco-Italian High Commissioners to agree if necessary to a declaration of a state of siege, but the permission was so hedged about with conditions that virtually it was not workable until too late. In any case it seems most probable that tho moment for such action is gone and the proclamation of a •state of siege is now more likely to precipitate a. conflict.

DELEGATIONS ON THE WAY. (Received Nov 11. 10 a.m.) (Renter.) Constantinople, Nov. 13. Several delegations left here -for Lausanne before i the postponement of tho Conference' was announced, including Serbians, Roumanians,* and Kemaiists. Isniet Pasha had arrived at Lausanne. Ho decided to proceed to Paris. Apparently be will occupy the interim in conversing with French •elate men.