TORKISH EMPIRE
FIRST BREAKING UP STEP
VARIOUS EASTERN MANDATES
By Ta!ci:rapli—PrpFS Association—Oopyriehl Australian and N.Z.- Cable Association.
(Received May 20, 8.5 p.m.) PARIS, May 13,
Inspired French comments say,,the occupation of Smyrna by tho Greeks is the first step towards .the total •■■dismemberment °'f the Turkish Eimpire. "The apportionment," writes "Pertinax" in the "Echo do Paris," is as followts:—
"Constantinople is to be internationalised under the American mandate, France refusing it. The rest of Xur-fcey-iii-Europe, '-with Smyrnaj will -go to Greece. AKmenia-wilthe independent, protected .by America. Mesopotamia and Palestine will be under mandate to Britain, which is to be the predominating Power also in Arabia; while Syria, including Adana, will be jndar mandate to France. Italy will Lave Adalia. The Turkish, remnant , wili have as a new capital Konich or Brous-
The newspaper "Midi" says tne decision regarding Syria is uncertain, ind there is doubt about America's willingness to accept tho mandate covering Constantinople.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XLIV, Issue 10285, 21 May 1919, Page 5
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154TORKISH EMPIRE New Zealand Times, Volume XLIV, Issue 10285, 21 May 1919, Page 5
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