PEACE TREATY

Hokitika Guardian, 19 July 1920, Page 3

PEACE TREATY

[ACWJUJLIAN & N.Z. OABLB ASSOCIAfTOIf] TURKISH TRATY. THE ALLIES REPLY. (Received this day at 8.40 a.ixi.) LONDON, July ,17. f The Aijied reply to the Turkish peace note with reference to the Tuvish Treaty declines to modify the clauses relating to Thrace, Smyrna and Syrian frontier or Armenia.. Regarding the regions of the Straits the reply says Emphatically there can he no question as to the necessity of taking effective measures to prevent another betrayal of tho cause of civilisation by a Turkish Government, but tho Allies had decided to grant the Turkish request as the riparian power for the right to appoint a delegate on tho Straits Commission. They would also make a number of minor • concessions - such as the withdrawal condition whereby Turkey ceded to tho Allies all the Turkish steamships of sixteen hundred i tons and upwards. The reply empha- j sises that Turkeys’ intervention in the j war, prolonged tho conflict for at leas; j two years, causing a loss to the Allies j of several million lives, and a thousand j million pounds. Tt recalls the Turkisn j atrocities in Bulgaria, Macedonia, and Armenia, ns showing the necessity -of ending the Empire of Turks over other , * nations, and declares if Turkey rofus’s to sign the peace or still more, if unabl-3 to re-establish authority in Anatolia, the Allies may be driven to reconsider j arrangement with ireference to Coo- 1 ( stantinople in regard to which the A - j ( lies had grave doubts, by ejecting the ( Turks from Europe, once and for nil. j j 'Hie Turks are given until 27tli. July s to sign, | [