Montreux, July 6.
ETTLEMENT of the Bosphorus Straits re-fortification question for a period of 50 years is contemplated by British amendments to the Turkish draft convention which came up for consideration when the Dardanelles Conference was resumed here to-day.
The amendments, which are embodied inva memorandum, stipulate: the tonnage of warships allowed to pass through the Straits, but include a provision whereby " belligerent Powers will have the right to Send unlimited forces into the Black Sea in the event of a war in which Turkey Is neutral.
They also stipulate that, if Turkey considers herself threatened with war, she shall have full discretion over the passage of foreign warships through the Straits, and provide for the maintenance of a Straits Commission for specified and limited respon-
Britain "Obstructive'
The interview, which lasted _one hour and a half, resulted in some] Progress being made towards a com 'M, Litvinoff denied to the British delegation that he had been instructed to return to Moscow unless he received satisfaction on certain points, tone of which is the Soviet claim for complete liberty of access to, and egress from. the Black Sea for Russian warships.
The attitude of Great Britain, the Soviet delegates contend, has been M, Maxim Litvinoff, Soviet Foreign Commissar, reserved his decision on the British amendments pending instructions, but he made it clear that the Soviet authorities were less satisfied with the. Bush "proposals than the former Turkish plans.
'The British proposals, it was point fed out, would bottle up the 23,000- ton Russian battleship Parlskal Kommuna stationed at Sebastopol and would prevent Soviet Russia from keeping a fleet' of battleships for operation in the Mediterranean.
Lord Stanley, Parliamentary and Financial Secretary to the British Admiralty, has" taken over the leadership of the British delegation us Lord Stanhope, Under-Secretary. of State for Foreign Affairs, has returned to London where he is needed preside the Coronation Committee and to attend to affairs of the OMlee of Work department, to which he was recently appointed—Reuter.
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