TURKEY'S POSITION

Greymouth Evening Star, 1 April 1920, Page 5

TURKEY'S POSITION

PRESIDENT WILSON'S NOTE AMICABLE~IN TONE. ' l SOLICITUDE FOR ARMENIA. (Australian and N, Z. Cable Association.! PARIS, March 30. President Wilson's Note to the Allies on the suhject of Turkeyhas been received. It is understood that it is not unfriendly in tone. The President is anxious over Armenia's future, and does . not consider it desirable that the Turks should remain at Constantinople, but does not declare in •* favour of their formal expulsion. RUSSIA. RUSSIAN ARISTOCRATS.

APPEAL TO ALLIES

(Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. )

Received this clay at 11.45 a.m LONDON, March 31.

The "Morning Post's" Paris correspondent states that 10,000 refugees in the Crimea represent all the gentle-born Russians who escaped their would-be extermination. Unless the Allies provide ships and coal quickly they Avill be wiped out by the victorious Bolsheviks. The refugees desire to go to Crete or Serbia until Russia is again tranquil. BOLSHEVIK VICTORY. MANY PRISONERS TAKEN. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. Received this dav ot 0.45" a.m. LONDON, March 30. A Bolshevik wireless claims that they captured ten thousand prisoners at Novorossisk. and a further fifteen tho"sond w°ve made prisoners towards Gelendik.

DOCKERS' DISPUTE

SETTLEMENT ARRIVED AT. MEN'S CLAIMS CONCEDED. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) Received tin's dav at 9.45 a.m. LONDON, March 30. The Dockers' Court of Inquiry recommends a minimum of 16s a day for nil workers. It also rethat a central fund he established to enable the industry to make provision for an unemployment award. It thus conceded, the workers' demands. ARABIA'S FUTURE INDEPENDENCE DEMANDED. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. Received this dav at 8.45 a.m. LONDON, March 29.

Emir Feisul Pasha, in an interview, stated that in view of the constant aspiration of the Arabian people towards independence, action could not longer he postponed; A proclamation of independence and a request for the withdrawal of French troops were not intended as an ultimatum but merely as an expression of Syria s wishes. The Emir intends to establish a constitutional government, and hopes to receive Prance's aid and advice. , The Polish Government sent a wireless message to Moscow announcing its willingness to negotiate for peace.