The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1920-06-24
ALLIES CONTROL
TURKISH STRAITS
Treaty Clothes international
Commission With Powers Gov
srning Port of ConstantinopIe.
WATERS MUST BE FREE.
Sovereignty over a Strip of Turkey
Larger Than Some Of the States
of Europe-Straits Not Sub
lect to Blockade.

Washington.-Llmited internationali-
aation of the port of Constantinople
and its inclusion within the zone of
the straits" is provided for in the
provisional terms of the Turkish
treaty. This is disclosed by an official
summary received here of the jurisdic-
tion provided for the Inter-Allied Com
mission of Control.
Granted its own flag, budget, and
separate organization, the commission,
by the lines of the boundaries, fixed for
the zone of straits" will have au-
thority over a territory considerably
greater than some of the smaller ma
tions Of Europe.
Made almost sovereign in itself, the
commission Is to be practically inde-
pendent of the League of Nations, as
stipulation is expressly made that
should 1t find liberty of passage of
the straits interfered with, it shall take
such measures as may be deemed
necessary to preserve the freedom of
the straits.
The zone includes not only the Bos-
pOrus, Sea of Marmora and Darda-
nelles, but also three miles of shore
from the mouth of the Dardanelles
and the Bosporus and the Aegean
Islands of Samothrace, Imbros, Lem
nos, Tenedos and Lesbos. A land
zone also is provided extending from
ten to seventeen miles northwest of
the Sea of Marmora and eight-twenty-
eighths of q mile southeast of 1T. Its
northwestern limit is partly common
with the new Greek frontier, fifty-two
miles west Of the BospOrus on the
Black Sea; its eastern limit is forty
miles east of the mouth of Bosporus
and its southwestern limit is partly
common with the district of Smyrna,
fifty-five miles southeast of the en-
trance to the Dardanelles. The zone
also includes an area on the western
side of the Gallipoli Peninsula, which
Turkey cedes to England, France and
Italy for war memorials and ceme-
teries.
Regulations laid down for enforce
ment by the Inter-Allied Commission
provide that:
No belligerent warships may remain
within ports of the zone longer than
twenty-four hours, or take on food,
stores or recruits.
The Dardanelles, Sea of Marmora,
and the BOsporus are to be open in
peace and war to every vessel of COM
merce and war.
The straits are not subject to block
ade.
No belligerent right to be exercised
or of
in the zone, except upon special au-
thoriZatiOn of the League Of Nations.
All military works and fOrtifications
to be demolished and no roads or rail-
roads to be constructed within the zone
for movement Of mobile batteries.
These regulations are to be enforced,
chiefly with naval forces and a force
OF special police, recruited within the
zone and commanded by foreign Of
ficers, as well as such military and
naval air forces and guard ships OF
their own as Great Britain, France and
Italy may deem necessary.
In addition to the general laws per-
tanning to the administration OF the
straits, the commission Is further
charged with execution of any works
considered necessary for the improve
ment OF the channels and the ap-
proaches to harbors, the lighting and
buoying Of channels, controls Of pilot
age, towage, anchorage and all matters
relating to wrecks, salvage and liter
age.
Maintenance Of the ports Of Con-
staDtinople and Haida as ports of In
ternational concern, where the citl-
zen's goods and flags Of all countries
belonging to the League Of Nations
shall enjoy complete freedom is also
placed within the control Of the com
mission, which shall provide at the
two ports free zones for the erection
and use OF warehouses