THE NEAR EAST

Hokitika Guardian, 11 July 1923, Page 3

THE NEAR EAST

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION RECEIVED WITH RELIEF. (Received this day at 8 a.m.) CONSTANTINOPLE, July 9. The Council of Commissaries has instructed Isriict Pasha to sign peace on an established basis. A proclamation will he issued to-mor-row informing the population of the settlement. The news was received in all Turkish quarters with relief and satisiaction. THE PEACE TREATY. TERMS OF A ORE EM ENT. (Received this day at 10.10 a.m.) LAI'SANNE. July 10. Under the agreement Constantinople, C'haiiak and Gallipoli will he evacuated six weeks alter the ratification of the Treaty by the respective Parliaments. Turkey recognises that postwar frontiers and capitulations are to he abolished ami minorities will he treated on the basis which Poland and Czechoslovakia adopted. Any dispute will be referred to the League of Nations.

Except those resident in Turkey be Pore 1021, all foreigners will be amenable to Turkish law.

Britain keeps the two ships ordered In Turkey before the war and the Allies share the gold deposits which were at Berlin and Vienna. LONDON, July 10.

The "Daily Express" Lausanne correspondent, says that Israel Pasha has every reason for his cheerfulness as the Allies have gone to the limits of their generosity in order to secure peace in the Near East.

The Treaty frees Turkey of twothirds of her external debt and, indeed, it is possible I bat Jiigo-Slavia may refuse to sign tbc Treaty owing to the proportion of the Ottoman debt wherewith she is saddled.

The Treaty places no limit on Turkey’s armed forces and restores her fleet, including the Goehen, though Allied experts believe the ships are merely scrap iron.

The humiliating regime of capitulations is ended. Turkey remains a sovereign power with a reduced but homogeneous Empire, able to enter the League of Nations. If the Chest er group aba minus the concession which Turkey has given them the French and British companies, enjoying pre-war rights, will secure the options.