GALLIPOLI’S DEAD.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3532, 21 July 1920, Page 7

GALLIPOLI’S DEAD.

CEMETERIES TO BE TRANSFERRED TO THE ALLIES. WELLINGTON, July ID. The sacred ground on Gallipoli where Hip dead of the Allied forces lie buried is, according to the Peace Treaty witli Turkey, to be transferred to Allied Governnfents by the Turks. '[The Prime Minister made available to-day the following extract from the Treaty with Turkey:—The Turkish Government shall transfer to the British, Fernch and Tialian Governments respectively, full and exclusive rights of ownership over the land within the | boundaries of Turkey as fixed by the j j present Treaty, in which are s'Plated | the graves of the soldiers and sai’ors , who fell in action or died of wounds. • accident or disease, as well as over ' the land required for laying out com- 1 eteri- s or erecting memorials to those j soldiers and sailors, or providing means of access to such cemeteries or i