TURKEY’S CHANCE

Taranaki Daily News, 14 March 1921, Page 5

TURKEY’S CHANCE

EASIER PEACE TERMS. ADMISSION TO THE LEAGUE, IF TREATY FULFILLED. By Telegraph.—Press Assn,—Copyright, Received March 13, 11.20 p.m. London, March 12. The Supreme Council’s new terms provide that the Turks shall retain Constantinople and shall be given the chairmanship of the Straits Commission and two votes thereon instead of one, the Allies to undertake to facilitate Turkey’s admission to the League of Nations if Turkey demonstrates her readiness to carry out the Treaty.—Aus.N.Z. Cable Assn. CAUSE OF THE DELAY. TURKS BLAME THE GREEKS. Received March 13, 5.5 p.m. London, March 12. An official communique states that after the presentation of the new Turkish proposals the Turks entered a protest against the maintenance of a Greek garrison in Smyrna. They had accepted the proposed commission to eastern Thrace, which they considered indispensable to Turkey. They cast on Greece all responsibility for the delay of peace in the East, and undertook to place the proposals before the Government. Mr. Lloyd George reminded the Turks that the original proposal for an inquiry regarding eastern Thrace was rejected by the Greeks, and only conditionally accepted by Turkey. The new proposals, which were prepared to meet this situation, entirely suspended the original proposal, and must be examined as a whole without the acceptance of reference to the previous one.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.