LATEST THE NEAR EAST

Waihi Daily Telegraph, Volume XX, Issue 6762, 10 November 1922, Page 3

LATEST THE NEAR EAST

WAENING TO KEMAL NOT TO PROCEED WITH DEMANDS LEADER’S GRAVE ERROR. Australian and N-£. Cable. (Received 2.3 D p.m.) PARIS, November 9. It is reported that the battleship Jean Bart hag been ordered to Constantinople. General Sherif Pasha ha s telegraphed to Kcinal Pasha urging him not to proceed with his latest demands. He states that the action regarding the Caliphate is disquieting, constitutes a giav© error, and ig capable of compromising the moral support which Turkey receives throughout the Mussulman world. . Sherif Pasha considers it impossible that Islam will permit the Caliphate to be deprived of temporal power, which is essential to uphold the dignity of the Islamic faith.

THE LAUSANNE CONFERENCE,

DEMANDS ON THE ALLIES.

(Received 2.30 p.m.) LONDON, November 9

At the Lausanne Conference the Angora Government will demand the re toiation of Mosul and the Mesopotamian odwells, while France will be asked to relinquish Syria.

The Marquis of Curzon and Sir Horace Rumba'd. British ambassador at Oonstantinople, are likely to be the British representatives at the conference, which will probably meet on November 20th. BRITISH PREPARATIONS. (Received 2.30 p.m.) LONDON, November 9. An effort Sb being made to get into wireless communication with the British fleet in the Bosphorous.

FRENCH APPREHENSION,

(Received 2.30 p.m.) LONDON, November 9

There is a thinly-veiled apprehension in France that an outbreak of war with Turkey, backed by Russia, may cause Germany to consider whether she cannot reap advantage from the Extern turmoil.