TURKISH QUESTION

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 143, 12 March 1920, Page 7

TURKISH QUESTION

REVISION OF TREATY CANVASSED

WILSON CONTEMPLATING ANTI-TURKISH

MEASURE

By Telegraph Prepu Association—Copyright

(Rec. March 11, 0.30 p.m.)

London, March .8,

The-Turkish question" continues to eneioss interest. The newspapers canvass the urosuect of a revision of the Treaty. Oil. the other hand Paris messages det.lar.e that the next meeting of the Sunieme Council will put the finishing touches to the Treaty, which will be sinned at Paris, despite an indication that. President Wilson is contomplntiug a stronsr anti-Turkish measuro with reference to Constantinople. New York reports state that the Turkish Chamber has decided to ask America to send a commission to investigate the Anatolian ■unssiicres.' liritish semi-official circles state that the landing of troops at Constantinople Kiis not undertaken without tho fullest consent of the Allies. It is understood that: the British Black. So<i arinv is able, and- .numbers 2-I.OOU combatants.— Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. THE ALLIES 7 ™ DUTIES PUNISHMENT AND PREVENTION. (Rec. March 11, 9.30 p.m.) London, March 10: Mr. Asquith, speaking, at the National Liberal Club, referred to the Armenian massacres, declared that the Allies' two m'eat duties were the duty of punishment and the duty of prevention. .Effective nrevenlion must deprive tile Turk as a ruling Power of the opportunity and means of a repetition, while the uunishinent. would not be adequate unless it. were exemplary. This was. or ought to be., the last chapter-in Ottoman misrule.—Renter. APPEALS FOR TURKS' EXPULSION FROM CONSTANTINOPLE. (Rec. March 11, 9.30 p.m.). New York, March 6. A committee of prominent Americans interested in Armenia, are appealing to Anglo-French opinion to insist on the ex-: pulsion of the Turks from Constantinople, to terminate the long-drawn out stigma on European humanity—"The. Times." ATTEMPTS Toloil A. CABINET A STRONG NATIONALIST INVITED. Constantinople, March 8. General Salih Pasha, a. former Minister of Marine, has been invited to form, a Cabinet.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assii. Constantinople, March 9. The invitation to Salih Pasha to form a Cabinet amounts to defiance of the Allies. as lie is a strong Nationalist, and is backed bv. tho Nationalists.—Aus.N.Z.'Cable Assn. FRENCH EVACUATION OF MARASH (Rec. March 11, 9.30 p.m.) Constantinople, March G. The French evacuation of Marash was largely due to shortage of ammunition. The Turkish gendarmerie started an attack. and supplied the Turkish population with machine-guns. The town was soon untenable. A revised estimate trives the total massacred as at leastsixteen thousand.—"The Times." FRENCH COMMANDER. AT CONSTANTINOPLE. Paris, March .11. General Desperey commands the French forces in Constanthiople.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.