3 MARCH 1923, Page 1

The Turks-in Council at Angora are elaborating counter proposals to

the Lausanne terms. All hope of their signing the treaty as it stands seems to haye gone. The truth is that till the Allies either come to a really firm agreement on a common irreducible minimum or— and it is hard to believe that this would not better suit the interests of this country—make a separate peace on the best terms they can severally get, nothing will be settled in the Near East.