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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 and mechanical institutions and a host of other important projects. In return the Government would be required to grant important oil concessions in Anatolia and Mosul...
...French view with alarm the proposed con cessions to an American concern which, as they state, would operate to the disadvantage of French interests. In Anatolia the French Government acquired important concessions from former Ottoman governments, and they still regard these as belonging to their own peculiar province. The Matin concludes: "Is there a change in favor of American projects? It is essential that we know that before the resumption of negotiations at Lausanne...
...Matin: "One hundred and seventy-five German submarines held in check the greatest naval coalition in history. How much would 175 submarines cost us? The same price as 6 battleships...
...little eight-page newspapers of Paris, brilliant, powerful and many, continue their diurnal animadversions against the United States. Leading the field are the Matin (edited by Stephen Lausanne, a welcome guest in many American homes), the semi-official Temps, the Midi, the Liberte. The text, as a rule, is either the Washington limitation of armaments plan or the debts. Exhibit "A" from the Liberte: " We were the victims at Washington of an Anglo-American combination and two questions of money prevent us from escaping...
France also leads in air transport. According to Stéphane Lausanne, of Le Matin, France now has eight active air lines, six radiating from Paris to London, Amsterdam, Bucharest, Warsaw, Geneva, Marseilles, one from Antibes to Ajaccio (Corsica), one across the Mediterranean from Toulouse to Casablanca in Morocco. England can boast of only three or four lines to the Continent...