TERMS TO THE TURKS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 18250, 17 November 1922, Page 9

TERMS TO THE TURKS.

BRITAIN'S VIEWPOINT.

NO SURRENDER OF STRAITS. OCCUPATION TO CONTINUE. DIFFERENCE WITH FRANCE. MILITARY MEASURES. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. (Received 0.5 p.m.) A. and HZ, LONDON, Nov. 15. The British Ambassador has handed to the French Foreign Office Lord Curzon'e Note, setting forth the points on which ho wishes to come to an agreement with France before the Allies go to Lausanne. The Note has not been published, but it deals with Mosul, Mesopotamia, and Syria, plebiscites in Arab territories and Western Thrace and other matters. M. Poincare is now mastering the Note. It is stated unofficially that he is in general agreement with Lord Curzon's standpoint. Lord Curzon's Note stipulates that certain questions shall not be allowed to be discussed at the conference, including the Mosul oilfields. The Note insists on a preliminary Allied agreement to occupy the Straits militarily for a term of years until the Peace Treaty terms are fulfilled, also an agreement regarding capitulations, Ottoman debts and Turkish customs. The Paris correspondent, of the Daily Chronicle states that the newspapers treely comment on Lord Curzon's aUi tude, and say that it is easy to come to 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 enough to do with that, and the French public will not tolerate any expedition to the Near East The Temps indignantly denounces coercive measures, which Britain is said to be preparing, and hopes that Lord Curzon will not insist on this point. Ismet Pasha, the Turkish Nationalist Commander-in-Chief, who is in Paris, announced that the- Turkish Government aimed at reconstructing an absolutely independent Turkey, especially without the capitulations. General Sir Charles Harington will attend the Lausanne Conference.

RAFAT PASHA'S RULE. INSOLENCE TO ALLIES. TOLD NOT TO INTERFERE. (Received 4.5 p.m.) Reuter. CONSTANTINOPLE. Nov. 15. Rafat Pasha handed to the High Commissioners a Note announcing his willingness to discuss measures to ensure the safety of the Allied troops. He added that the Angora Government assumed the duty of ensuring the law and order, and therefore requested the cessation of Allied interference in internal administration.

ilafat Pasha has published a list of socalled luxuries, importation of which will be forbidden in Turkey a month hence. The list includes alcoholic drinks, glass, furniture, trimmings, and ready-made clothing. Many of theso articles are imported from France. AMERICA AND TURKEY. SEPARATE TREATY MOOTED. OBSERVERS AT LAUSANNE. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. (Kecd. 10.5 p.m.) NEW TOEK. Nov. 15. The Washington correspondent of the New York Times learns from a high quarter that the United States Government expects to negotiate treaties of amity with the Allies and during the Lausanne Conference if possible or later, for the purpose of protecting legitimate American rights and interests in the Near East, especially in the former Ottoman Empire.

The United States, however, will not a signatory to the Peace Treaty to be negotiated at Lausanne, though the Government has already appointed as unofficial observers the American Minister to Switzerland, the Ambassador at Rome and Admiral Bristol.