RUSSIAN NOTE ANSWERED.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue XLII, 12 October 1922, Page 7

RUSSIAN NOTE ANSWERED.

TURKEY AND NEUTRAL ZONES.

BY CABLE—PRESS A&bOCIATION—COPYBIGHT

(Received Oct. 12, 11.^0 a.m.) on, ™ • LONDON, Oct. 11. The Foreign Office has sent a Note to Russia m reply to her Note stating that enquiries show that no commercial blockade of the Straits by Britain exists, as alleged by Russia. The Daily Telegraph 'a Constantinople correspondent says that the crucial point of the military convention is believed to be Turkish respect ±or neutral zones, lie categorical acceptance of which by Turkey will be insisted upon. The continued filtration of troops such as has been occurring during the last week endangers the position of the British forces. The exact limits of the zones as laid down ' by General Harington are not known, : but probably lie within the boundaries of the zones as proclaimed in 1921. - I