THE PROPOSED CONFERENCE

Taranaki Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 13791, 24 October 1908, Page 5

THE PROPOSED CONFERENCE

BRITAIN'S ALMS. By Electric- Telegraph. — Copynght. LONDON. Oct. 2',i. In ihv Jloii...' ci Commons, Sir Edward Grey, Secretary for Foreign Aifairs. declared that the object of the communications proceeding between the Powers v\as to come to some agreement regarding the programme of the conference, so as to settle the differences without widening the area of the disturbances. A3 Turkey was the most ad. tTody affected, the British Government trusted the first object of the Powers would be to secure compensation for Turkey, to safeguard her interests and strengthen the new regime. Turkey's approval, he said, was a necessary condition 10 the adoption of any programme.