THE NEAR EAST
ICBTKAUAN AND N. 7.. CABI.K ASSOCIATION, TI'UKF.Y AND pOWKR*. CONSTANTINOI’LK, Aug. 22 \ debate has opened in the Angora \ssemhlv on the ratification ol the Lausanne Treaty. There was considerable criticism, in O'Re ol ' approval of the treaty. A lluac-mn depute said that the treaty had inpared' a dangerous future for otlie. generations, and perhaps even tor ecu's. Wo have not obtained even our 1«» U frontiers. The future of Adnattop,e is very lmnarclmts. The Western statesmen, hv the situation which met have created in Thrace, have eonsututed a pretext for quarrels between Turkey, Bulgaria, and Greece. The main feature of the debate was hostility towards France. LONDON. Aug. A!
The Prime Mini-tor. Mr Baldwin, in a written answer to a House ol Commons question, admitted that th sums due from Turkey under lhe Lausanne Treaty would only he siilheient to pay a percentage uf the claims. The British Government strongly believed that it would lie futile to obtain from Turkey any promises ol payment of large sums which she could not honour. Experience with Austria and Germany showed conclusively that a bird in hand was worth any number in the bush.
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Hokitika Guardian, 25 August 1923, Page 3
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