Mar. 20.
Oncz more an Inter-Allied Commission is to meet in London to-day to consider the Turkish counter-proposals to the terms which Ismet Pasha rejected at Lausanne. That rejection took place on February 4, an eleventh hour volte face after it had been announced that ''fundamental questions, constituting eighty per cent. of the whole Treaty had been solved'? and that there was no serious obstacle to the conclusion of peace. Lord Curzon immediately left for London. The French delegate, M. Bom-pard, remained on for two or three days endeavouring, it was reported, to bring the Turks to their senses. The only visible outcome was a storm of anti-
French articles in the press of Constantinople which appears to have conceived the idea that
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