PEACE TREATY

Hokitika Guardian, 14 May 1920, Page 1

PEACE TREATY

-By Electric Telegraph- Copyright.. • TURKISH TREATY. ] LONDON, Ma y U. ' An official summary of the Turkish xveaty has been handed to the iuikish | delegates.. The Treaty is divided into thirteen parts. The first controls_ the Covenant of the League of Nations Th e second- describes'the new geogra- , pliical frontiers, that in Europe hemg | approximately the Chatalja hnes. The boundaries in Asm remain the, same, except as regards the southern frontier, which starts from the coast *ou.h f Adana, and proceeds easterly, to the present boundary south-west of ••■ & >_ thence northwards to Ararat; noith urns to a few miles south of Datum. third part hinds the Turks to aci-ept political changes raised hj the Treaty, and esta.blishos a special into - national regime- for the Dardanelles Straits, which will not be subject to blockade nor belligerency, ebcce>m plirsuance of a decision of the -ouncil of the League of Nations. The Turkish Treaty further pron es for autonomy, and possible ? virtual independence in Khurdistad. \ It creates a special regime in Snijrna under Turkish sovereignty hut With an effective Greek administration It assigns Eastern Thrace (approxi- ■ mately to the Chatalja lines) to Greece It provides for recognition of the non States of Hodja/., Armenia, and toi mandates for Syria, Mesopotamia and Palestine. In this connection it reaffirms the British .Government £i declaration of 1917 in favour of a national home for the Jewish people. It. also provides for Turkish recognition of a new situation created by tlic war in Egypt, Sudari, Cyprus, the Aegean and the French protectorate over Moiocco and Tunis. The fourth part deals with the protection of religious, racial, and liiiguishtic minorities in Turkey and provides for the restitution of control •rfbiral appointed by the League of Nations in favour of nonTurkish subjects who suffered during the

" ai FURTHER PARTICULARS. LONDON, May 11. 1 The Turkish Treaty is subject to provisions that the parties agree to the maintenance of Turkish sovereignty at Constantinople. The' reservation is made that if Turkey fails to observe the provisions of the Treaty or supplementary treaties or conventions, particularly regarding the protection of minorities that the Allies may, modify the provisions. Turkey to agtee to accept any disposition made in this connection m the navigation of the Straits, including the Dardanelles Sea of Marmora and Bosphorus. In the future, both m peace time and war time, to all merchantmen, warships and aircraft witlr- : out destruction. The Commission controlling the Straits to he composed of a representative of each United States British Empire, France, Italy, Japan, Russia, Bulgaria, Greece, and Roumnnia, representatives of three last named powers to have one vote each, and the othesr two votes.