THE NEAR EAST

Otago Daily Times, Issue 18463, 26 January 1922, Page 5

THE NEAR EAST

NEW TREATY .OUTLINED. REVISION OF BOUNDARIES. GREECE EVACUATES SMYRNA. Press Association—By Telegraph— Copyright. CONSTANTINOPLE, January 24. Franco-British pourparlers in reference Near .East have so far progessed that Earl Ciirzon, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, has submitted a Note stating the British conditions. It is understood that the evacuation of Smyrna by Greece is admitted, with adequate guarantees for Christian minorities, including the appointment of a Christian Governor-General. It is also understood that there is to be a modification of the Thracian frontier, which it is suggested shall follow a line slightly south of Midia (on tire Black Sea) via Chorlu (west' of Constantinople), ending at Rodosto (on the Sea of 'Marmora). French and Turkish circlesj however, consider this frontier strategically unsound. —Renter. [The proposed new frontier would increase the present small area round Constantinople, which is all that is left in Europe to Turkey. The present GrsecoTurkish - frontier tuns through Tehataldja, about 30 miles west of the Bosphorus. The proposed now line would run roughly about 60 miles west of the Bosphorus, and would give Turkey about half the European coast of the Sea of Marmora, while leaving Greece a email ironbage to the Black Sea.] TANGIER AND ANGORA. ARRANGING A FORMULA. FUTURE OP ANATOLIA. , PARIS, January 24. The French Government has sent Count Desteaulaire, Ambassador in London, instructions regarding the proposed AngloFrench treaty: Negotiations through diplomatic channels will thus begin with instructions regarding Angora and Tangier, and the conference at Genoa will follow. The Echo de Paris foresees nq difficulty in arranging a formula with regard to Tangier, and says the only point requiring settlement over the Angora Treaty is'that of intervention between the .Greeks and Turks before hostilities are resumed. The newspaper adds: “Britain desires certain energetic measures which France is not disposed to adopt. There is almost an agreement between Britain and France to give Turkey, possession of Anatolia, special guarantees being laid down for the Greeks at Smyrna. The only real difficulty concerns the Thracian frontier, Britain proposing the Midia-Rodoeta line, and France preferring the Enos-Midia line. —A. and N.Z. Cable. . [By ’ the Treaty of Madrid, signed bn November 27, 1921, France acknowledged the right of Spain to exercise_ her influence in a zone in Morocco extending along the Mediterranean for, some 200 miles in length and 60 m|]es irix depth to the Atlantic. Tangier arid its district, some 140 miles in extent, wore, however, excluded from the Spanish zone, and created a neutral zone. The Spanish Government has on many occasions since 1912 urged the necessity of its having control of Tangier, on the ground that it is a_ centre of international intrigue, and that it is the chief field of activity of Raisuli and other Moroccan rebels in their preparations for warfare against the Spaniards.] CONFERENCE It! FEBRUARY PARIS, January 24. (Received Jan. 25, at 8.30 p.m.) The newspapers believe that Tangier will be placed on "a neutral basis and mat the English, French, and Italian Foreign Ministers will meet early in February to arrange the Greco-Turkish situation.—A/ and N.Z. Cable.