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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LVI, 23 November 1922, Page 5

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LUSSAKtiE CONFEREIGE TURKS AND DARDANELLES (By Electric Telegraph.— Copyright-) j (Australian & rI.Z. Cable Association.! LAUSANNE, Nov. 21. \ The Turks have demanded ilia'. when j (ho Straits question is considered I other Governments vitally interest cm.] who fl.ro not represented at Lausanne shall be invited. The Allies intimated , that they do not. object U> those powers participating? but they bad not replied to the invitation to do so Signor Mussolini interviewed, Sind that as a result - of conversations With Lord Curzon and M. Poincare lie could say the Entente was an actuality, and he .Imped the United States would also co-operate in the work of flu* reconstruction of Europe, which could on!} he done by all nations working together. Commercial' treaties must above all and before all be signed as a first step to this end. CONSTANTINOPLE, Nov. 21. The Kcmalists issued a prodan-A ion slating that the Dardanelles henceforth would be subject to the Angora. C»o\erhment. LONDON, Nov. 22, Official circles do not confirm the report that the Kema-lists had issued U proclamation that the Dardanelles were subject to Angora, and are inclined to treat the statement with reserve, eKuntier claims LAUSANNE. Nov. 22. The first commission begun 'ls task lat Ouohy. Ismet Pasha stated ■>.; j was authorised to claim the frontiers | existing in 1913 and demand a plebiscite in Western Thrace. | M. Venizelos, in a lengthy statement, i declared that, as Greece had been deifeated in conflict ho recognised she was under certain obligations. Greece would accept the 1915 frontier hut he thought the question of Western Thrace should not come before the conference.

Ismet Pasha said he would defer aj reply to M. Venizelos._ M. Minlchich, Servian foreign min- j ister, thought the frontier ought to: be fixed at Maritza in accordance with The Allied note with delimitation of a zone extending from the Black Sea to j the Aegean Sea. Ho objected to a plebiscite in Western Thrace. The Roumanian delegate agreed with M. Nintchich. FLIGHT OF BRITISH AEROPLANES trbmendous~Tmpression CREATED CONSTANTINOPLE, Nov. 21. flight, of fifty British aeroplanes over the city in order to mark the beginning of peace negotiations created a tremendous impression upon the public. ROME. Nov. 22. The Gioraale’s Lausanne correspondent reports that Signor Mussolini announced a settlement of the Dodecanese question. 1 BERLIN, Nov. 22. Burglars entered the ex-Kaiser’s Rhineland Castle at Conderhaven and stole the bulk of the historic silver plate weighing three hundredweight, which the Hohenzollerns had long possessed. ROUMANTA WITH THE ALLIES PARIS, Nov. 22. The Petit Parisian’s Lausanne correspondent is reliably informed that Roumania will participate in collective military measures in they Near Bast, •which the Allies deem desirable. ALLIES IN COMPLETE AGREEMENT LAUSANNE, Nov. 22. Signor Mussolini has returned to Rome. Before leaving he said: “We have reached complete agreement on all questions concerning the Turks and arranged a preliminary conference to be held between England, Prance, Italy and Belgium before the Brussels economic conference.