PEACE TREATY

Hokitika Guardian, 8 May 1920, Page 2

PEACE TREATY

'By Electric Telegraph—Co tf.’igip.i TURKISH DELEGATES. ..PARIS, May 6. The Turkish peace delegation has arrived at Versailles. It consists of Tewfik Pasha’ (President), Iteschid Bey, Faliiddin Bey, and Djemal Paslia. DELEGATES ATTITUDE. PARIS, May 6. It is expected the Tewfik Pasha, who is head of the Turkish Peace Delegation, will make a strong protest against f the carvifig up of Turkey, especially tlie | territorial concessions to Greece. It is highly probable that he will-refuse to sign the Treaty which is said to be largo ly.the work of Venezelos. It has also created a violent campaign in Italy against Signor Nitti. Italians feel that the San Remo meeting has made Greece a formidable rival in the Eastern Mediterranean.

SPA CONFERENCE’S WORK PARIS, May 6. Henart Mahmudouktar Saner rein, writing in the “Matin,” declares the first task France has at the Spa Conference is to demand priority of the payment of the indemnity in favour of the invaded territory. Tlje correspondent adds that if priority is not conceded, the French Government may prefer not to conclude an agreement, hut to rely on its own means of compelling Germany to pay. ■ , M Millerand in a covering letter to the Allied reply to the Hungarian Peace Delegation suggests that if any conditions 0 of the Treaty are regarded as an injustice, they should be submitted to the League of Nations. The reply allows ten days for acceptance of the Treaty.