NEAR EAST

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LVI, 17 November 1922, Page 5

NEAR EAST

TURKISH ENCROACHMENT MURE PRONOUNCED DAILY

(By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (Published in the Times.)

LONDON, Nov. 10

The Times Constantinople correspondent reports that despite Isinet s reassuring statement the ’lurks aio, energetically preparing to secure complete control of the capital. Recruiting is proceeding, and men in Staraboul are warned to bo icady. Local forces may suffice to establish early military control without calling troops from Ismid. The Turks assert that the Angora Government will not await the conclusion of tho Lausanne Conference. Turkish encroachment becomes more pronounced daily. Numerous arrests have been made, and there have been some executions, which are simply murder. All connected with the British forces are specially liable to arrest and murder. The situation appears irretrievable.

BRITAIN AND FRANCE

LONDON. Nov. 15

The Daily Chronicle’s correspondent states that Paris newspapers comment freely on Lord Curzon’s attitude. They say it is easy to come into accord except on one point, that is the military measures the Allies may take in the event of Turkey rejecting the Allies’ proposals. Some papers remark that France has to keep watch on the Rhine and has quite enougli to do with -that. Trench public will not tolerate any ex■Ltinn to the Near East.

Le Temps indignantly denounces the coercive measures which England is saiff to he preparing, and adds the hope that Lord, Curzon will not insist upon this point

PARIS, Nov. 15

Lord Curzou’s nolo stipulates the questions not allowed to ho discussed at the conference, including the Mosul oilfields. The note insists on a preliminary Allied agreement to occupy the Straits with military forces for a number of years until the peace treaty terms are fulfilled ;also regarding the capitulation of the Ottoman debts and the Turkish Customs. PARIS, Nov. 15.

The British Ambassador banded the Quai d’Orsay Lord Curzon’s note setting forth the points ho wishes to come to agreement on with France before the "JUlies go to Lausanne. The note has not been published, but it deals with Mosul, Mesopotamia, Syria, plebiscites in Arab territories and Western Thrace, and other matter's. M. Poincare is now mastering the note, and if is stated unofficially that he fs in general agreement with 'Lord Cur zonks standpoint.

GREEK DEFEATS IN ASIA MINOR

ATHENS, Nov. 15. The Coimmseion declared that Prince Andrew, commander of the Third Army Corps, was responsible for the defeats in Asia Minor, because he violated orders and acted on his own initiative.

PROTECTION OF AMERICAN

RIGHTS

, NEW YORK, Nov. 16 The Washington corespondent loams from a high quarter that the American Government expects to negotiate treaties of amity wii’n lire Allies and the Turks, during the Lausanne Conference if possible, or later, for the purpose of protecting legitimate American rights and interest in the Near East, especially in the former Ottoman Empire. The United States, however, will not be a signatory to the Peace Treaty negotiated at Lausanne, though she already has appointed as unofficial observers the- American minister in Switzerland and the Ambassador in Rome and Admiral Bristol.

LIST OF “LUXURIES” CONSTANTINOPLE, Nov. 15. Eafet Pasha published a list of socalled luxuries, importation of which wfll be forbidden into Turkey a mouth hence. The list includes alcoholic drinks, glass, furniture trimmings, and clothing. Many of these articles are imported from France. CONSTANTINOPLE, Nov. 16.

The Turks, realising they possess tho initiative, only await an opportunity for a final denouncement, which is expected within a fortnight under the pretext that Angora is unable to restrain the nation from fulfilling its legitimate aspirations.