GENERAL VON SANDERS OPINION.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 2485, 26 September 1922, Page 4

GENERAL VON SANDERS OPINION.

THINKS ENGLAND MUST YIELD. LONDON, Sept, 22. “Turkey’s victory is complete. Constantinople will again be Turkish, and neither Europe nor England will venture a conflict with Kemal Pasha, who has behind him the entire Moslem world,” declared General Liman von Sanders to the Daily Telegraph correspondent. “I cannot see why England makes such a fuss about the Straits. Mr Lloyd George said Gallipoli was sacred ground because it contains more than 20,000 British graves. It also holds 60,000 graves of the Turks who fell in defence of their own country. I cannot understand why England resists the just claim of Turkey to Thrace. Purely Turkish territory must be returned to Turkey because it is impossible for Constantinople, the capital of the Moslem world, to be on the frontier of a defenceless State. England must yield to Kemal on this point. ’ A. and N.Z. cable. POLITICAL STRUGGLE AT ANGORA AIMS OF OPPOSING PARTIES. CONSTANTINOPLE, Sept. 21. There is on intense political struggle at Angora between the Moderates, supported by the Opposition, wishing to avoid war, and the extremists, supported by the army leaders, some of whose heads, having been turned by their successes, are ready to risk a conflict. The Soviet’s envoy. M. AralofV, naturally supports the war party. The French Government., through its representatives, is doing its utmost- to persuade the Nationalists to adopt a moderate policy, but it appears that M. Pelie, the French envoy, who returned from Smyrna this morning, found thorn in an- uncompromising mood. —Times. DEMAND TO CROSS THE STRAITS. BRITISH GENERAL’S REPLY. LONDON, Sept. 21. The Daily Express’ Constantinople correspondent states that the Turks demanded the rights to cross the Straits in pursuit of the Greeks. General Harrington replied that the Anglo-Turkish war would be the inevitable consequence of such an action. He appealed to Kemal’s emissary not to take irremediable action pending the conference. The newspaper’s Paris correspondent reports that after conferences between Admirals Beatty and Grasset, the French Admiralty ordered several cruisers to proceed forthwith to reinforce the Straits. — A. and N.Z. cable. NO RECENT DEVELOPMENTS. ADMIRAL BEATTY’S REPORT FAVOURABLE. LONDON, Sept, 22. The position in the Near East is unchanged. Mr' Lloyd George has gone into the country and will not return before Monday unless new developments arise. Probably no Cabinet meeting will take place until Lord Curzon rtetun.s from Paris. It is understood that Admiral Beatty reports that his Paris interviews were quite satisfactory. —A. and N.Z. cable.