NEAR EAST

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LVI, 16 October 1922, Page 5

NEAR EAST

iSMio mm\. ZONE INFRINGED BV TIJF TURKS (By Electric, 'telegraph.—Copyright.) (Australian & N.Z. Cable Association.) LONDON, Oct, 14. The Daily Telegraph's Constantinople correspondent states that, whether designedly or accidentally, the Kemalists have broken '.be convention by infringing the neutral zone in the Ismid area. A thousand cavalry occupied Baltshik, four miles inside the zone. The British are now instructing the Turks in regard to the exact line. The Daily Chronicle correspondent at Constantinople states that there is every likelihood that the new Turkish incursion will be vexatious to the British troops. The evacuaticHii of Thraco b expected to begin on Monday.

GREECF AND MUDANIA AGREEMENT CONSTANTINOPLE, Oct.. 14. The Greek High Commissioner informed the Allied High Commissioner that Greece accepts the Mudaoia convention with reservations that the time limit for the Greek evacuation of Thrace is too short and the guarantees offered in return insufficient. REFUGEES AT ANATOLIA ATHENS, Oct. 13. Twenty-five thousand refugees are awaiting conveyance from Anatolia. The Kemalists' have given them five days to leave and threaten to deport them at the end of that period. Greek vessels are leaving incessantly. MR LLOYD GEORGE HAS, AUDIENCE WITH KINO LONDON, Oct. 13. Mr Lloyd George had an audience with the. King today, lasting an hour and a half. The Prime Minister presented a detailed report nn the Near East situation.