TURKEY

New Zealand Times, Volume XLVI, Issue 10617, 16 June 1920, Page 6

TURKEY

THE PEACE TERMS GRAND VIZIER TO PROTEST IN PARIS. By Telegraph—Press Assn. —Copyright Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. CONSTANTINOPLE, June 14. The Grand Vizier has left for Paris to present Turkey’s reply to the Peace Treaty. Ho will endeavour to obtain an oral hearing in regard to the Peace terms. It is understood that his reply will protest against tho clauses dealing with Thrace and Smyrna, tho attack on Turkish suzerainty hy the internationalisation of the Bosjihorus and tho Dardanelles, and tho clauses granting rights of capitulation to the States which enjoyed them before tho war. NATIONALISTS MASTERS IN ANATOLIA. A GENERAL RECALLED. Reuter’s Telegram. CONSTANTINOPLE, June 14. Travellers from Brusa say that the Nationalists aro now masters of tho whole of Anatolia except Ismin, and arc terrorising tho population of the districts which supported tho Government troops. General Sulieman, Chefik Pasha, commanding tho anti-Na-tionalist forces, has been recalled to Constantinople on. tbo grounds that he failed in his duty, and to account for sums missing from a secret fund entrusted to. him. CONSPIRATORS HANGED. FATE OF TURKISH PLOTTERS. Australian mu! X/, Cable Association. CONSTANTINOPLE. June 14. Four conspirators court-martiallecl fot plotting against the Grand Vizier were hanged in the public, square. They spent their last few moments in denouncing the Turkish Government and proclaiming their devotion to ■ union and progress. The bodies remained until the British authorities ordered their removal. The Grand Vizier has sailed for Paris.