Foreign News: Lausanne

Oil and the Machinery of the Conference

The gurgitations of Near Eastern oil have resounded with an unmistakable "glub " throughout the world. The Angora Government, with its five senses on the qui vive, is anxious to draw America into the next meeting of the Lausanne Conference, scheduled to take place on April 23.

According to the Paris Matin, the Turkish Government has received an offer from Rear Admiral Colby Michael Chester, acting on behalf of the American-Ottoman Development Company, to build railroads, canals, cities, ports, scientific...

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