THE NEAR EAST

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue XLII, 3 April 1923, Page 5

THE NEAR EAST

THE TURKISH.PROPOSALS.

REPLY BY ALLIES.

WAY TO SETTLEMENT. OPEN.

BT CABLB-PaESS ASSOCIATION—COPVBIGHI LONDON, April 1.

The Allied reply to the Turkish counter-proposals Suggests a prompt resumption:■:of negotiations. It accepts in: principle the proposal to redraft the clauses relating 'co capitulations, with a view to securing the recognition to Turkey of the benefit of reciprocity as,far as practicable. It refuses Tarkey's request to remove the economic clauses from the Treaty, but expresses the opinion that an agreement could be reached by mutual concessions.

The reply also declares that the Allies invited their nationals wh o acquired interests in Turkey to; enter into negotiations directly with the Turkish Government, and, in the event of the negotiations resulting successfully, the Allies will not insist upon the- insertion, ia- the;; Treaty yof th^ir; previously; dcV ;tailed previsions. '■:/;

The reply further expresses the conviction that with equal goodwill ou both sides, peace could be concluded without difficulty.

CONSTANTINOPLE r March 31. - Angora advices state that Ali Chukri Bey, deputy for Trebizond, has been assassinated for political reasons. Chukri Bey has been missing for some days, and his friends x in the Assembly charged the Government with his murder, Which they denied, but the disclosure of the crime has badly shaken the Government; LONDON, April 1.

The Allies' Note leaves the; Turks to fix the date of the next Lausanne Conference; otherwise it is a vague document, deliberately refraining from a definite refutation of reiterated Turkish claims, and seeking to leave the door open for the resumption of negotiations.

The Allied reply to the Turkish counter-proposals' expresses surprise that Ismet should have reopened various questions which he accepted as settled at Lausanne, and that he should have raised several entirely new points. Nevertheless, in the earnest desire to expedite the conclusion of a just and lasting peace, the Allies are^ ready to discuss Turkey's counterproposals on the distinct understanding that -the economic clauses shall also be reoperied and reconsidered.

The remainder of the workmen fled and the French occupied the works. • BERLIN, March 31. The casualties .at Essen are seven killed and 22 severely and 32 slightly wounded. The crowd later attacked four Frenchmen, killing two.