THE DARDANELLES.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVI, Issue 112, 13 April 1936, Page 7

THE DARDANELLES.

TURKEY MAKES A MOVE. “CONDITIONS OF SECURITY.” LONDON, April 11. A Turkish Note has been handed to the Foreign Office and the Quai d’Orsay, also the League of Nations and the Italian, Japanese, Russian, Greek, Bulgarian, Rumanian and Yugoslavian, Governments. It is 1 understood that it declares that the <niarantees under the Lausanne Treaty are uncertain and inoperative owing to the '‘rearmament of the Powers and can no longer shield Turkey irom external menace. Turkey accordingly invites 'the Lausanne signatories to negotiate with a view to restoring at the Dardanelles conditions of security essential for the inviolability or Turkish territory. , The Note adds that political crises have demonstrated that the present machinery of collective guarantees is too slow in operating and delays cause the authority of international decisions to be lost. It cannot to-day bo, said that the security of the Dardanelles is assured by guarantees. Turkey cannot remain indifferent to the dangerous failure to act. „ „ . The Lausanne Treaty of 1923 officially terminated the state of war between the Allies and Turkey by bringing an end to the difficulties outstanding between the Allies and the Angora Turks. The most vital clause was that which guaranteed the freedom of the Straits. Zones on each side of..the Bospliorous and the Sea of Marmora were demilitarised by special convention and rules were* laid down for preserving the freedom of the Straits in both peace and war, such rules to be applied by a mixed commission of the League of Nations.