THE NEAR EAST.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 16895, 21 November 1922, Page 7

THE NEAR EAST.

LAUSANNE CONFERENCE. WORK TO BE KEPT SECRET. By Telegraph Press Association — Copyrigrhi Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. (Received November 21 11.15 a.m.) I/AUSANNK Xovember 20. The Allies have decided to keep the j work of the Conference fj®cret, cresU>- | Ing an inter-Allied Press Bureau to ! scrutinise the news. j It is officially announced that three jof the Allies have exchanged then j preliminary views. There was utmost | cordiality and agreement. The repreI sentatives of the Balkan States ; hero in full strength. | There is almost a certainty that, I whatever else emerges from the C'onfe*- ! ence, a New Balkan Tongue will hr. formed against Turkey. This nlon j ought to persuade even the Kemalist; I to. curb their ambitions, j The Allies have not yet come to a j definite agreement respecting the , measures to .bo adopted in the oven? i of Turkish recalcitrancy. While Britain ! and Ttalv especially arc inclined to ! wards armed intervention. Franc ! thinks that the policy of force which I produced :lie Sevres Treaty and awakened ihe Turkish Nationalism, shoulo ; be abandoned.