MUDANIA CONFERENCE.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue XLII, 6 October 1922, Page 5

MUDANIA CONFERENCE.

FIRST' OFFICIAL NEWS.

PRINCPILE OF ALLIED NOTE ACCEPTED.

LONDON, Oct. 5. The Daily Telegraph's Constantinople correspondent states the first of--Aibial news regarding the Mudania conference reached the British headquarters on Wednesday morning. It says the conference is proceeding satisfactorily. The Nationalists accepted the Allied Note in principle. Ismet Pasha has issued orders to the Nationalist troops to avoid all contact. \ Apparently only Chanak was discussed, the question of Thrace being reserved until the coming of the Greek representatives.

In view of the situation in the Near East it is interesting., to recall that at the Imperial Conference in 1917, the Prime Minister of New Zealand brought forward a proposal to keep Gallipoli under the control of the British Government or of the Allies. Mr. Massey moved the following motion-.— "That this conference is strongly of opinion that when peace terms are be- 1 ing arranged an earnest endeavour should be made to have that part of the Gallipoli Peninsula and 'other places where lies the remains of many British and overseas Dominions' soldiers placed-under the control of a commission." This motion was followed by the insertion of a clause in the Treaty of Sevres, and its subject is one of those upon which the British Government has taken a determined stand.