TURKS MORE TRACTABLE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 18276, 18 December 1922, Page 7

TURKS MORE TRACTABLE.

SAFETY OF MINORITIES.

ALLIED DEMANDS ACCEPTED.

CO-OPERATION WITH LEAGUE

A GENERAL AMNESTY. By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright. (Received 3.5 p.m.) A. and N.Z. LAUSANNE, Dec. 15. The Near Ens! Conference is proceeding smoothly. The Turks have accepted the principle of a general amnesty for political and military offences from 1914 and have agreed to recognise the. minority clauses in the European treaties, subject to nonrecognition -of the Kurds as a minority, the Kurds having voluntarily associated themselves with the Turks.

The Turks unreservedly accept freedom of movement for minorities and recogntse their right to return as well as to leave the country. They also concede the principle of political, civil and religious liberty. Regarding exemption of minorities from military service, the Turks explained that they contemplated exempting Moslems or Christians on payment of a fixed tax. They agreed to guarantee the. execution of dispositions taken for tho protection of minorities and to co-operate with tho League of Nations to that end.

FUTURE OF MOSUL.

BRITISH REPLY TO TURKS.

KING OF IRAK TO DECIDE.

Australian c.:id NZ. Cable Association. (Heed. 4.G p.m.) LAUSANNE. Dec. 15.

A British Note to the Turks deals with technical, strategical, economic and political reasons why Britain opposes Turkey's claim to dispose of Mosul. The Note adds that the true owner of Mosul is King Feisal of Irak, whose Government should open negotiations with the Angora Government regarding the fate of Mosul.

LORD OURZON'S WORK. PREMIER'S HIGH PRAISE. A. and N.Z. LONDON. Dee. 15. Mr. Bonar Law, addressing the Unionist Association, paid a tribute to tho work of tho Marquis Curzon at Lausanne. Lord Curzon, he paid, had shown readiness to take great responsibilities solely becauso ho knew the Government was behind him.