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The manifesto of British policy issued last Saturday and published

in the papers of Monday declared that the demands of the Angora Government involved nothing less than "the entire loss of all the results of the victory over Turkey in the Great War." The channel of deep sea water, it was pointed out, separating Europe from Asia and joining the Mediterranean and the Black Sea affected the interests of the whole world. The British Government therefore regarded the effective and permanent freedom of the Straits ES a vital necessity. The question of Constantinople itself was rather different, as for more than two years it had been decided that Constantinople should be returned to the Turks "provided that other matters were satisfactorily adjusted."

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