PEACE TREATY

Hokitika Guardian, 13 March 1920, Page 2

PEACE TREATY

(By Electric Telegraph—Cooyright.i

SUPREME CuUNCIL MEETS

LONDON, March 11

The Supreme Council met yesterday, and issued a communique announcing that it had considered the measures which were being taken to ensure the protection of the Armenians and other minorities in Turkey. It is significant that Mr Winston Churchill, S.r Walter Long, Lord Beatty, General Thwaites and M; Venezelos attended. It is stated that the Council ordered a disciplinary occupation of Constantinople as well as a number of strategic points in Asiatic and European Turkey, forthwith while America has been urged to participate in the measures for tile protection of the Armenians. The Supreme Council is stated to be also considering military measures for providing against the possibilitj- of an active co-operation between the Turkish and Nationalist forces and section of Arabs in Syria. Official circles are of the opinion that the Allied forces with troops which Greece is believed to be ready to give an assurance to the Allies of a military superiority sufficient for any emergency in the immediate future. But . the outlook is anxious, owing to the crisis may affect. General Desperey is due to re-assumo command of the Allied armies.