TURKISH NATIONAL PLAN.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 2481, 16 September 1922, Page 4

TURKISH NATIONAL PLAN.

GRAVE MILITARY SITUATION. LONDON, Sept. 12. Colonel Repington, writing in the Daily Telegraph, states that the recovery of Constantinople and Eastern Thrace is part of the Turkish national plan. A Turkish assurance that the Strait will remain free would not be worth the paper on which it was written. “With the Turks dominating the Straits we should have Russian Soviet troops there before long. W e are in the presence of a military situation demanding definite precautions. It would be unpardonable to oiler the Turks such a bait as the Straits if weakly held. ’ —A. and" N.Z. cable. KEMALISTS OCCUPY BRUSA. CONSTANTINOPLE. Sept. 12. Brusa, \ Inch was first occupied by Komalist cavalry and then abandoned, has been definitely occupied by the Kemalists. The Greeks who got away via Mudania have been transported to Rod os to. An Inter-Allied military mission, with two companies of French infantry, has landed at Mudania to maintain order. The Turks claim that unless Turkish prisoners, who are interned in allegedly unhealthy conditions at Oldphalerum and Larissa, are transferred elsewhere, all their Greek prisoners, including the generals, will be treated in exactly the same way.— A. and N.Z. cable. MONEY FOR STATE ENTERPRISES SCHEMES IN UPPER SILESIA. BERLIN, Sept. 12. While Germany is protesting poverty to the Reparations Commission, the Prussian Government’s grandiose scheme for the reconstruction of Upper Silesia furnishes an interesting commentary. The Prussian Minister oi Commerce. Herr Sirring, in expounding the projects, gave imposing estimates. For example, he stated dial the. development of commercial [tower works at Oppeln was imperatively necessary, costing 50 million marks. Industrial waterworks at Zawadn were indispensable, with a pipe-line to supply the water in the industrial area, costing 150 millions. I'hese were necessitated by the rearrangement of the frontier. Railroads and roads must be rearranged, and huge sums would be needed; but they were not specified. The proposed technical and other schools and colleges and exhibitions balls were regarded as essential to industrial develop rnent. The output of the Stare coal minemust bo doubled. The State iron workmust be extended. also the State lead works. Estimates were not given. but the housing scheme for workers therein would absorb 55 million marks. Tims while the Central Government is unable to pay the reparations, the Prussian Slate Government seems to have plenty of money for developing St.ato on terprises.—A. and N.Z. cable.