TURKISH TREATY

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 199, 18 May 1920, Page 7

TURKISH TREATY

TERMS CAUSE SENSATION IN CONSTANTINOPLE

"INqOMPATIBLE.WITH . ASPIRATIONS"

(By Telegraph-Prose Association-CopyrteW

.''''.'*■ ' Constantinople, May 16. .'The details of the Peace Treaty have caused a sensation. The Turks received them.with -mingled indignation and de-

';pression.\ ■ .;■ ■-Tewfik'Pasha, President of the Peace 1 Delegation, •■; telegraphed; to the Grand ' Vizier that the -Treaty it: absolutely ifi- , compatible with Othe independence arid : aspirations of the Government'. : The Turkish :Press make similar com-, ments.' -It is pointed pnt among other .things: that the'loss..of Smyrna will injure Turkey .without'bringing any.advan- . \tage to:the, Greeks, .while the Chataldja 'frontier-will provoke endless 'racial hostility. ■;:.• The Government will-resign if .'modifications are;not obtnincd, arid whether -the' Sultan can find a. Ministry is ■ dsubtful. . The Nationalists, if reinsfat- . .ed,iwill..prove. still..more unyielding, .un- . less'they.. 'ire convinced' that the Allies ' are ready to ,use force . freely.—"The .Times." : '. f ■' : MESSAGE TO"~MOSLEM INDIA :i 'reasons portreaty terms ' : !.' explained. .:■.... ."'', '-.'•■ - .■' > , Delhi, May 14. The Viceroy (Lord Chelmsford), in a •: message: to Moslem India regarding, the 'Turkish Peace ' Treaty;. states '• that the 'decision.of the Supreme Council in respect to peace with Turkey was reached .after careful and anxious consideration J.of the representations of the Moslems in -all countries. The Government is issuing.with a summaryof the terms a«atatement'explaining the principles of the;de■cisioris and the reasons for them. '■ : After thanking the Moslems for their , .war services, the Viceroy .states that al- ' --; though the :tcrms are in full accordance : with the high principles applied in the .peace setttements with, other -enemies of Ahe Allies, they.include terms which.he fears' must be painful, -to all Moslems. ,He concludes'by saying that he is confident . that. the . new treaty . will quickly result in a renewal of friendship between Turkey arid Britain.- and that Tur- : key, 1 regenerated] .in ■ full hope and strength, will stand forth, ns in the past; ft pillar of tho Islamic faith.—Renter.