DARDANELLES CONTROL

Greymouth Evening Star, 7 December 1945, Page 5

DARDANELLES CONTROL

TURKEY CONCILIATORY. (Rec. 10.45 a.m.) ANKARA, Dec. 6. Turkey was prepared to accept the principle of the United States plan for the revision of the Montreux Convention on the control of the Dardanelles as a basis for discussion in which it was hoped the United States would participate, said the Prime Minister, M. Sarajoglu. The British Ambassador, Mr. A. Peterson, handed a note to the Turkish Government on November 21 stating that the revision of the Montreux Convention, in accordance with the United States proposal, was also desired by Britain, but that the question was not of an urgent character. M. Sarajoglu added that Turkey would be ready to express its own view when the opinions of all three interested Governments were known. ANTI-COMMUNIST RIOT ISTANBUL, December 5. A mob of 20,000 persons, in a sudden and violent anti-Communist demonstration, wrecked two newspaper plants and at least two book stores. Soldiers and hundreds of police patrolled the city early this afternoon, because the throng, composed mostly of university and high school students, had not dispersed. The students, after wrecking the newspaper plants and also a Russian bookstall, traversed the main streets shouting “Kill the Communists,” and “Down with Communism.” Passing the American Consulate, they cried “Long live America.” They saluted outside the British Embassy. . Police and military forces blocked the approach to the Russian Embassy.