CABLE NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 15 September 1922, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

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\uSTUAniAti AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. LONDON, Sept. 13. France has officially signified that an agreement with Great Britain on the subjejet of the freedom of the Straits expressed her readiness to discuss any settlement providing that legitimate Turkish aspirations are safeguarded.

GREEK FLIGHT. LONDON, Sept. 13. Ward Price in the “Daily Mail” gives a graphic story of the Greeks panicky flight from Smyrna Oil the approach of the Turks. He says the •remnants of Tine’s army is now shipped at Chios whence they are returning to Atlietis for .demobilisation. Steaming up. the gulf of Smyrna they had abundant evidence of. the Greeks terrorised flight. The whole population, civil and military, were trying ti get away. Steaming down the Gulf was a succession of Greek transports, shabby steamships, all sizes, which ho 'I been hastily requisitioned. Greek soldiers were clustering round them like swarms of bees. Little sailing boats laboured along heavily laden with refugees. Coastal steamers were packed with civilians and were towing more civilians in lighters. Along the shore road on the south side of the Gulf, the Greek Army and infantry, ctivalry and motof transport wCte streaming westward towards CheshcC, whence they were ferried across to Chios. A confused khaki column stretched for miles. Smyrna itself was in great confusion, find, the quays. w£re . deiisily packed, with Greeks alternately weeping and shouting in panic, and offering high prices for places in the boats. The advance guard of Turks entered without opposition. QUEST AT SMYRNA. LONDON, Sent. 13. Advices from Smyrna indicate all is fairly quiet. British shilflfs guard the Consulate find AUied troojis, with Mustapiia’s concurrence, assist in maintaining order! Well informed circles in London manifest anxiety regarding the likelihood of all attempt tq reach Thrace. Allied vessels ht Dardanelles .and the Sea of Marmora are ready to frustrate such an effort. Serbian circles confidently predict a Turko-Bulgarian alliance against other Balkan States. Mustapha has not replied to the Allied warning against action in areas within their control in Thrace. TURKISH VIEWS. LONDON, Sept 14. Alined Rizn Pasha, ex-Presidettt of the Turkish Senate, interviewed in Sofiia. said he trusted Bulgaria would recover Western Thrace. Turkey, intended to ct&im Kasierii Thrac'e. Billgaria would thus become a buffer between Greece and Turkey. Riza added that the basis of Turkey’s . peace conditions would. he the principle of Nationalites which would entitle her to reclaim' Arabia, Mesopotamia and Syria. He did nut anticipate any difficulty regarding the Straits. EGYPTIAN FEELING. CAIRO, Sept. 13:

All the indications point to the fact that the; Turkish victories are giving an immense impetus to the Pan-Isla-mic movement. The Palestinean Arabs, who are particularly olated over the Korn a list achievements, are preparing the ’"•fly for tin Arab Confederation throughout the Arabian K’oninsitlu, They* generaly believe that if the ’lurks are unable to defeat tlio Turks, the other Powetrs are unlikely to try conclusions at the present juncture, especially as the world-wide Moslem sentiment will bo organised against any country taking up arms against the Turks. The Arabs foresee and calculate upon the British and French abandonment of Syria, Palestine and Mesopotamia unless these Powers are prepared to fight Turkey which the Arabs regard as unlikely. .

KEMALIST TALKS TO BRITAIN CONSTANTINOPLE, 'Sept 13. Hamid Bey, a Kemalist leader, states that the Inter-Allied occupation of Constantinople! “cannot last forever.” It will have to cease, he says, when Turkey has achieved the peace for which slie is fighting. He adds: “We will permit no control, because we are not slaves. Britain must make up her minds to abandon completely this key to the Mediterranean. The first condition to our participation in a peace conference is the Allied evacuation of Anatolia. EXECUTIONS BY TURKS. LONDON ,Sept 13. The “Daily Telegraph’s” correspondent at Smyrna states:—Official Turkish executions of Armenians and Greeks ,guilty of 1959 crimes, are increasing in numbed - , hut the situation does not warrant the widesspread rumours that the Armenians are destined for extermination. The Turkish commander states that as Greeks laid waste of an area more than twenty miles wide, and two hundred miles long, he sees no possibility of returning the refugees to their homes in this territory. ALLIED SOLIDARITY. LONDON, Sept 13. The “Daily Chronicle” reports that British, French, and Italian detachments have landed at Charnak and Skutari, which is regarded as a confirmation of Allied solidarity in their determination to ensure the protection of Constantinople and Gallipoli. The “Daily Telergapli’s” Paris correspondent says:—“lt is clear that the French Government does not- see eye to eye with the Britsh Government regarding the Turks. France proclaims herself, faithful to Die principle of the freedom of the Straits, but France has sympathy with the legitimate aspirations of the Turks. This means that she will make her voice heard in support of the Turkish claims to Adrianople. „ _ KEMAL REALISES POSITION. ROME, Sept 13.

The “Giornale Italia” states that Kemal Pasha realises that any attempt against the Dardanelles Straits will meet with the opposition of the Allies and that complications regarding Adrianople would cause the Little. Entente intervention. The Turks, it says, are warned that Europe will not allow th© war to he transferred to European soil. MORE GREEKS FALL. SMYRNA, Sept 13 A portion of the Greek Army, which was holding out on Cheshmae Peninsula, west of Smyrna, has now surrendered to the Turks.