12 MARCH 1921, Page 1
The Allies on Friday, March 4th, received the answers of
the Greek and Turkish delegates to the question whether they would accept the Treaty of Shvres subject to possible changes in Smyrna and Thrace, as the result of a commission of inquiry into the statistics of population. The Greek Premier said that the National Assembly had rejected the proposal. Greece must retain the rights for which she had made great sacrifices. The Turkish insurgent delegate expressed his readiness to agree to an inquiry, on condition that the Treaty was " adapted to conditions indispensable to the existence of a free and indepen- dent Turkey "—in other words, that the Treaty was re-written at the, dictation of a defeated enemy.
