THE BALKANS.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume VI, Issue 1735, 5 September 1919, Page 7

THE BALKANS.

PEACE PROBLEMS. Rv C»M«.— Press Association --GcvdrlffMi . ."■! (A. & N.Z.) WASHINGTON, Sept. 3. It is learned that President Wilson proposed to the Peace Conference a settlement of the Turkish and Thracian questions through the establishment of a-large international State, in which Great Britain, France, the • United States, Greece, and other " Powers should be represented. The State would embi/ice Constantinople and Eastern and Western Thrace. ■- Hitherto Great Britain and France' have been opposed to the proposal; preferring that the United States should exercise mandatory power over this region. DEADLOCK ENDED. (A. & N.Z.) LONDON, Sept. 5. The Paris correspondent of the "Daily Chronicle" says the Thracian deadlock has ended. America consents to Greece occupying Western Thrace in accordance with the Peace Treaty, but an autonomous buffer State will be created in Eastern . Thrace. Bulgaria will be given unhampered access to Dedeagatch.