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f cilitate the execution of the duties with which it is entrusted by this section, the Commission shall have power to organise such a force of local police as may be necessary. This force shall be drawn so far as possible from the native population of the zone of the Straits defined in Article 28 and shall be commanded by foreign police officers appointed by the Commission". The position taken up by the Powers as evidenced in the articles he had quoted, was entirely logical but in article 12 there was an allusion to article 28 of the military clauses which laid down that the Islands should be demilitarised, and should be under the control of the High Commission. He agreed that it was quite right that the Commission should exercise the control of the police in the zone of the Straits, but he wished to enquire whether the Supreme Council intended to apply in the case of the Islands the control in the construction of the roads, railways and police. No doubt it was the intention of the Allied Powers to have authority to establish, if necessary, a military base on those Islands, but, he submitted, it was surely not the intention that any impediment should be placed in the way of the construction of roads and railways. If he could meet the Straits Commission on the subject, he was quite sure that he could easily persuade them to see his point. What he desired to ask was whether, in case of necessity, Greece might be permitted to send troops to Thrace by way of the Sea of Marmora? as it was possible that she might be precluded from doing this by land, by Bulgaria. M.NITTI suggested that M.Venizelos should submit his point in writing to the Straits Commission. LORD CURZON thought that M.Venizelos was quite right to be asked to be heard by the Straits Commission, whose members were at present in San Remo, and who were, really, alone competent to 18.